Heinrich Ernst Göring

Heinrich Ernst Göring
Heinrich Ernst Göring
Reichskommissar for
German South-West Africa
In office
May 1885 – August 1890
Preceded by Gustav Nachtigal
Succeeded by Louis Nels
Personal details
Born 31 October 1839(1839-10-31)
Emmerich, Kingdom of Prussia
Died 7 December 1913(1913-12-07) (aged 74)
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria

Heinrich Ernst Göring (31 October 1839 – 7 December 1913) was a German jurist and diplomat who served as colonial governor of German South-West Africa. He was the father of five children including Hermann Göring, the Nazi leader and commander of the Luftwaffe.

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Personal life

Göring was born in Emmerich in the Rhine Province. He was the son of Wilhelm Göring (1791-1874), and his wife Caroline Maria de Neree (1815-1886), daughter of Everhard de Neree (1772-1820) and his wife Clementine Freiin von Locquenghien (1775-1861) who was descended from, among others, the Grafen von Metternich and the then Freiherren von Schönborn.

Göring married secondly Franziska Tiefenbrunn: the marriage produced five recorded children:

Career

After a career as a provincial judge, the Dutch-speaking Göring was appointed Imperial Commissioner of German South-West Africa in 1885, the first German imperial commissioner, after Otto von Bismarck was forced into creating a state-financed colonial administration to support his country's fledgling Protectorate of South-West Africa.[1]

Göring's first action was to gain a 'protection treaty' with the leading Herero chief, Maharero.[2] The treaty of protection wasn't worth the paper it was written on, as Göring was in no position to offer assistance. Repeated, successful armed attacks by the Nama clan of Hendrik Witbooi proved the point. The treaty was torn up a few years later anyway by Mahrero, who also expelled Göring from Hereroland: the behaviour of the Germans had become too much and, worst of all, Göring had—perhaps unwittingly—extended his house on top of a Herero ancestral graveyard.[3] The gold rush was a hoax, however, for the purported gold deposits were nothing apart from the remains of gold pieces fired at a rock face. The identity of the hoaxer remains a mystery, but suspicion falls on Göring making a last-ditch, desperate attempt to bring investment into the protectorate, and thus save his failing mission.[4] The expected vast gold deposits started a gold rush of German settlers and investors into South-West Africa, whose behaviour further alienated the Herero. This eventually led to the genocide of the Herero aboriginals. The Herero skulls were eventually used by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute-Anthropology, pursuing a policy of eugenics. Later, the Nazis, including Heinrich Ernst Göring son, Hermann Göring continued this policy of genocide during World War II.

Notes

Bibliography

  • Gewald, Jan-Bart (1999), Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923, Oxford: James Currey, ISBN 0-85255-749-3 
  • Olusoga, David; Erichsen, Casper W (2011) [2010], The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-23142-3 
  • Wellington, John H (1967), South West Africa and Its Human Issues, London: Oxford University Press 

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