- Carin Göring
Carin Göring (
21 October 1888 –17 October 1931 ) was the first wife ofHermann Göring , head of the German Luftwaffe and second in command toAdolf Hitler during theThird Reich .She was born Carin Fock in
Stockholm in 1888. Her fatherCommander Baron Carl Fock was a Swedish army colonel, from a family who had immigrated fromWestphalia . Her mother, Huldine Beamish (b. 1860), was from an Anglo-Irish family famous for brewingBeamish and Crawford beer. Her great-great grandfatherWilliam Beamish was one of the founders of Beamish and Crawford. Her English grandfather had served in Britain'sColdstream Guards . Carin's maternal grandmother founded the private religious sisterhood,Edelweiss Society . She was the fourth of five daughters, her sisters were namedMary von Rosen (b. 1886), Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (b. 1882), Elsa and Lily.She became Carin von Kantzow upon her marriage in 1910 to an army officer, Baron Niels Gustav
von Kantzow . They had one child, Thomas von Kantzow, born in 1913.In 1920 she met Hermann Göring, five years her junior, then working as a commercial pilot in Sweden for
Svenska Lufttrafik . They carried on an adulterous relationship until her divorce in December 1922.After their marriage on
3 January 1923 the Görings first lived in a house in the suburbs ofMunich . They had to flee to Sweden after the failedBeer Hall Putsch of November 1923. Carin shared Goring's enthusiasm for the Nazi party and took active part in the endless talk of Hitler's inner circle both in her own home and in regular drinking sessions in theBratwurstglöckel tavern in the heart of oldMunich . With the rise of theNazi party, Göring returned to Germany and achieved political power, though his wife was little able to join in his new role, with her serious ill-health.She suffered from
tuberculosis during her later years. Her motherHuldine Fock died completely unexpected on 25 September 1931. Carin was shocked, she died of heart failure on 17 October 1931, four days prior to her 43rd birthday.Hermann Göring called the baronial hunting lodge he built from 1933
Carinhall , in her honor. It was there that he had her body reinterred from her original grave in Sweden. Carinhall was demolished by Hermann Göring as Russian troops advanced in 1945; her desecrated remains were recovered by the Fock family, cremated and re-buried in Sweden.Carin's sister, Mary Fock (1886–1967), was married to
Count Eric von Rosen (1879–1948), one of the founding members ofNationalsocialistiska Blocket , a Swedish Nazi political party.ee also
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Emmy Göring External links
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23263&pt=Carin%20G%F6ring Find a Grave: Carin Göring]
* [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=slogrove&id=I4860 Carl von Fock's Rootsweb Page]
* [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=slogrove&id=I5184 Carin von Fock's Rootsweb Family Tree]
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