Biography of herman goering

Early Life

Hermann Göring was born on January 12, , in Rosenheim, Germany. His father was a German diplomat and colonial official. During World War I, Göring served as a fighter pilot. He won Germany’s highest military decoration. After the war, Göring lived in Sweden, where he worked in the airline industry.

Göring’s Role in the Nazi Rise to Power, –

As one of Hitler’s closest compatriots, Göring played a key role in the Nazi rise to power.

Joining the Nazi Movement

Becoming the Reichstag President

Hitler thought Göring helped the Nazis look respectable because he was a decorated war hero. He also had connections with some leading German industrialists and conservatives. In , Hitler chose Göring to run for a seat in the German parliament, the Reichstag. Göring won the election. In the Reichstag elections, the Nazi Party won more votes than any other party. Göring then became Reichstag President. He ensured that Germany’s conservative government could not pass any laws as long as it excluded Hitler from power.

Establishing Nazi Control

January 12,
Hermann Göring is born in Marienbad, in the German state of Bavaria.

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Göring attends military academy.

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Göring serves in the German air force as a fighter pilot. Both wounded and decorated, by the end of the war, he is one of the best-known German air force war heroes.

Summer
Göring begins university studies in history and political science in Munich.

November
Göring meets Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Party rally and will subsequently join the Nazi Party.

November 9,
Göring marches with Hitler during the Beer Hall Putsch against the German government. He is seriously wounded in the hip during the putsch.

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Göring's wife, Carin, smuggles the wounded Göring out of Germany via Austria to Italy. In , Göring and his wife go to Sweden to live with her family. After the German government declares a general amnesty for political refugees in , Göring will return to Germany.

Göring becomes one of 11 Nazis to obtain a parliamentary seat in the Reichstag (German Parliament) after the Nazis receive % of the vote in the parliamentary elections.

September
Hitler appoints Göring as his political representative in Berlin, choosing him to lead the Nazi Party Reichstag delegation.

October
Göring's wife, Carin, dies of a heart attack.

July
Göring becomes president of the Reichstag after the second Nazi electoral surge makes the Nazi Party the largest in Germany.

January
The Nazis obtain control of the German state with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor.

Göring receives a cabinet post (Minister without Portfolio) in the Nazi-Nationalist coalition government). Göring is also appointed acting commissar for the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

February
Göring authorizes the appointment of SA (Sturmabteilungen; Assault Detachments) and SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) per

German Nazi politician and military leader (–)

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Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;German:[ˈhɛʁmanˈvɪlhɛlmˈɡøːʁɪŋ]; 12 January &#;– 15 October ) was a German Nazi politician, aviator, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which governed Germany from to He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe (Supreme Commander of the Air Force), a position he held until the final days of the regime.

A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, Göring was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite. He served as the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG I), the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen. An early member of the Nazi Party, Göring was among those wounded in Adolf Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch in While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the last year of his life. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in , Göring was named as minister without portfolio in the new government. One of his first acts as a cabinet minister was to oversee the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Heinrich Himmler in

Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Göring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany. Upon being named Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan in , Göring was entrusted with the task of mobilizing all sectors of the economy for war, an assignment which brought numerous government agencies under his control. In September , Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag designating him as his successor. After the Fall of France in , he was bestowed the specially created rank of Reichsmarschall, which gave him seniority over all officers in Germany's armed forces.

By , Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. As the Second World War progressed, Gö

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Who Was Hermann Göring?

Hermann Göring was a leader of the Nazi Party. He played a prominent role in organizing the Nazi police state in Germany and established concentration camps for the "corrective treatment" of individuals. Indicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in , Göring was condemned to hang as a war criminal, but he took cyanide the night he was to be executed.

Early Life, Nazi Party and World War I

Hermann Göring was born in Rosenheim, Germany, on January 12, He was trained for a career in the military and received his commission in , serving Germany as a pilot during World War I. After the war, Göring worked as a commercial pilot in Denmark and Sweden, where he met Swedish baroness Carin von Kantzow, who promptly divorced her husband and married Göring in February

Two years earlier, Göring had met Adolf Hitler and had joined the emerging National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party, and as a former military officer, he was given command of Hitler's stormtroopers (the "SA"). In November , Göring took part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch, during which Hitler attempted to seize control of the German government by spearheading a revolution with the help of the SA.

During the putsch, Göring was severely wounded in the groin and, after his escape into Austria, was given morphine for the pain. As a result, Göring developed a severe drug addiction that would follow him for his entire life and twice lead him into a treatment center. After the putsch failed, Hitler was imprisoned (and released in ), and Göring remained in exile until he was granted amnesty in He then returned to Germany and was readmitted to the Nazi Party.

Göring's wife died in , and the following year Göring rose to the presidency of the Reichstag (parliament) when the Nazi Party won the majority of seats in the July election. Hitler was named German chancellor on January 30, , and before long a bill giving him dictato