Göring, Emmy
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Birthname | Emma Johanna Henny Sonnemann | ||||
born on | 24 March 1893 at 13:30 (= 1:30 PM ) | ||||
Place | Hamburg, Germany, 53n33, 9e59 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m9e59 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
German actress and the second wife of Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring. She served as Adolf Hitler's hostess at many state functions and thereby staked a claim to the title of "First Lady of the Third Reich".
She was born to a wealthy salesman. After schooling, she became an actress at the National Theatre in Weimar.
On 13 January 1916, she married actor Karl Köstlin in Trieste. Thereafter, she was known as Emmy Köstlin. They divorced in 1926.
On 10 April 1935, she married the prominent Nazi and Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, becoming Emmy Göring. It was also Göring's second marriage; his first wife, Carin, had died in October 1931. She was given an unsolicited membership to the Nazi Party during Christmas 1938. Their daughter, Edda, was born on 2 June 1938.
Emmy Göring served as Hitler's hostess at many state functions prior to the Second World War. This and her claim to be the "First Lady of the Third Reich" created much animosity between herself and Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, whom she snubbed and openly despised.
As the wife of one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe, she received much public attention, was constantly photographed, and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle well into the Second World War. Her husband owned mansions, estates and castles in Austria, Germany and Poland and was a major beneficiary of the Nazis' confiscation of art and wealth from Jews and others deemed enemies by the Nazi regime. Her husband celebrated their daughter's birth by ordering 500 planes to fly over Berlin.
After the end of the war, a German denazification court convicted her of being a Nazi and sentenced her to one year in jail. When she was released, 30 percent of her property was confiscated, and she was banned from the stage for five years, depriving her of a living.
Some years after her release from jail, Emmy Göring was able to secure a very small flat in a building in the city of Munich and remained there for the rest of her life. In her final years, she suffered from sciatica. She wrote an autobiography, An der Seite meines Mannes (1967), published in English as My Life with Goering in 1972.
Emmy Göring died in Munich on 8 June 1973 at the age of 80.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Hitler, Adolf (born 20 April 1889). Notes: She was his hostess
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Braun, Eva (born 6 February 1912)
- parent->child relationship with Göring, Edda (born 2 June 1938)
- spouse relationship with Göring, Hermann (born 12 January 1893). Notes: 1935-1946
- has other family relationship with Göring, Albert (born 9 March 1895). Notes: Siblings-in-law, 1935-1946
- compare to chart of Goebbels, Magda (born 11 November 1901). Notes: "First Ladies" of Nazi Germany
Events
- Relationship : Divorce dates 1926 (Karl Köstlin)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1967 (Autobiography, "An der Seite meines Mannes")
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth record.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (Sciatica)
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Hermann Göring)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (One)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One daughter)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Extravagant
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (One year)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Other Criminal (War criminal, Nazi)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 80)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("An der Seite meines Mannes"/ "My Life with Goering")
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure ("First Lady of the Third Reich")
- 1893 births
- Birthday 24 March
- Birthplace Hamburg, GER
- Sun 4 Aries
- Moon 29 Gemini
- Asc 15 Leo
- 1973 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Lifestyle : Financial : Extravagant
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Other Criminal
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure