Heinrich Ernst Goering

Heinrich Ernst Göring (1906)

Heinrich Ernst Göring , in more recent literature also Ernst Heinrich Göring (born October 31, 1838 in Emmerich , † December 7, 1913 in Munich ), was a German lawyer and diplomat. He was the father of both Hermann Göring , one of the most influential politicians in the Nazi era, and Albert Göring , an opponent of the regime.

Life

Göring was the son of District Court Councilor Wilhelm Göring and his wife Caroline Anne Franziska Huberta de Nerée. Göring studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1858 he became a member (later honorary member) of the Corps Saxonia Bonn . In Bonn he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He fought in the German War and in the Franco-German War .

Otto von Bismarck sent Göring in August 1885 as the first Imperial Commissioner from German South West Africa to Lüderitz Bay . Bismarck's concept for the protected area was that the merchant and not the Berlin bureaucrat should rule there. In addition to Göring August Lüderitz , mission pastor Büttner and his secretary Nels negotiated for the Reich . Bismarck supported him and Göring on their expedition into the interior of the country, richly illustrated by Lüderitz as a photographer, in May 1885. When Lüderitz tried to conclude a concession agreement with Maharero in 1884, Maharero initially refused in favor of British interests. When he returned with Goering in October 1885, Maharero responded to the interest of the German representative Goering and placed himself under German protection. The expedition also provided valuable information about the nature of the land.

He set up the headquarters of the commissariat in Otjimbingwe . From here he concluded, among other things, " protection treaties " with local rulers in South West Africa and established the first "protection reserve" for the San - called "Bushmen" in colonial language - who had previously been persecuted and decimated by Europeans and Bantu peoples .

In August 1890 he left German South West Africa, and was succeeded by Curt von François . He became consul in Haiti . After the consulate was converted into a ministerial residence, he was ministerial resident for Haiti and the Dominican Republic from 1892 until his retirement in 1895 .

family

Göring married Ida Friederike Remy on July 24, 1869 in Heddesdorf (born September 26, 1847 in Rasselstein, † April 23, 1879 in Devant-les-Ponts , former Metz district ). The marriage had four children:

• Friedrich Wilhelm (born October 29, 1870 in Rasselstein), major
• Ernst Albert (born October 5, 1873 in Metz , † April 21, 1909 in Berlin ), lawyer
• Frieda (born July 16, 1875 in Metz, † October 9, 1929 in Kiel ) ⚭ Otto Burchard (born September 6, 1865 in Rostock , † January 10, 1904 in Kiel), Corvette Captain
• Heinrich Carl (born April 17, 1879 in Devant-les-Ponts), Dr. med., professor at the ophthalmic institute in Wiesbaden ⚭ Dora Barth (born February 15, 1881 in Berlin)

After his first wife died, Göring married Franziska Tiefenbrunn on May 26, 1884 in London (born April 21, 1859 in Munich, † July 15, 1923 there). He had five children with her:

• Karl Ernst (born August 3, 1885 in Rosenheim , † October 4, 1932 in Hanover ), lieutenant colonel and lawyer ⚭ (his niece) Ilse Burchard (born April 28, 1898 in Kiel , † 1972)
• Olga Therese Sophie (born January 16, 1889 in Walfischbai (South West Africa), † 1970) ⚭ May 27, 1912 Friedrich “Fritz” Rigele , notary and mountaineer
• Paula Elisabeth Rosa (* May 8, 1890 in Rosenheim, † 1960) ⚭ September 6, 1920 Franz Hueber , Dr. jur., notary
• Hermann Wilhelm (born January 12, 1893 in Rosenheim, † October 15, 1946 in Nuremberg), National Socialist politician

⚭ January 25, 1923 in Stockholm or February 3, 1923 Munich-Obermenzing Carin Freiin Fock (* October 21, 1888 in Stockholm, † October 17, 1931 ibid)

⚭ April 10, 1935 Emmy Sonnemann (born March 24, 1893 in Hamburg , † June 8, 1973 in Munich), actress

• Albert Günter (born March 9, 1895 in Friedenau , † December 20, 1966 in Neuenbürg ), 1914/18 lieutenant of the bayer. News troops, graduate engineer, businessman and opponent of the Nazi dictatorship

⚭ March 16, 1921 Maria von Ammon

⚭ October 2, 1923 Ernestine Mathilde Emma Buchlmeyer (alias Erna von Miltner) (born November 1, 1886 in Munich)

⚭ 1942–1948 Mila Klazarová

literature

• JH Esterhuyse: South West Africa 1880-1894. The Establishment of German Authority in South West Africa. Cape Town 1968.
• George Steinmetz: The Devil's Handwriting. Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao , Samoa , and Southwest Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2007 ( Table of Contents ).
• Ilse Müller, Günther Schweizer, Peter Werth: The Remy family. Kannenbakers and Entrepreneurs - A genealogical inventory. Tübingen 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Kilian: Kai-Uwe von Hassel and his family , Miles-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-937885-63-6 , p. 109.
2. ↑ Christiane Bürger: German Colonial History (s): The Genocide in Namibia and the Historiography of the GDR and FRG , transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3768-7 , p. 142.
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16/213
4. ↑ Dissertation: De origine et progressu iuramenti suppletorii et purgatorii .
5. ^ Jörg Schildknecht: Bismarck, South West Africa and the Congo Conference. The international legal foundations of the effective occupation and its secondary obligations using the example of the acquisition of the first German colony. Legal series, Volume 135, 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4620-2 (plus dissertation, University of Hamburg), p. 219.
6. ↑ Bernd G. Längin : The German colonies: Schauplätze und Schicksale 1884-1918 , Mittler, 2004, ISBN 9783813208214 , p. 113
7. ^ Jörg Schildknecht: Bismarck, South West Africa and the Congo Conference. P. 244.
8. ^ Alfred Vagts : Germany and the United States in World Politics , 2 volumes. Macmillan, London / New York 1935, Vol. 1, pp. 65-68.
9. ↑ Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Vol. 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger : G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 59.