German Leadership

Carin Goering.

Hermann Goering's first wife; her second husband. Goering married Swedish aristocrat Carin in 1923, following her divorce from her first husband, Niels-Gustav von Kantzow. Later in the same year, Goering (already a member of the Nazi Party) took part in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was seriously wounded in the groin, and excorted into exile by Carin. She was to a great extent responsible for the fact that he remained free and survived. It would seem unfair to blame for the fact that, in the same period, heavy exposure to various opiates in the course of his medical treatment helped turn the future Reichsmarschall into an increasingly fuddled multiple addict - a condition he only emerged from in Allied captivity many years later. Carin, whose health never seems to have been very robust, and who was five years Goering's senior, died of heart failure in 1931. Goering later named his vast manor house "Carinhall", after the first wife to whom he owed so much. How he managed to get away with this with his second wife is a mystery that mere men may never comprehend ... Best regards, JR.