The daughter of Hermann Goering Göring Edda

Goering Edda is the goddess of Hitler himself, the daughter of Hermann Goering, one of the most famous leaders of Nazi Germany. What this woman remembers about her father, and how her fate was formed after his death, read in this article.

The Birth of the Heiress

Goering Edda was the first and only child in the Hering family. Her mother, Emma Johanna Annie Sonneman? Before marriage, built the career of an actress, but, having married, she became the first woman in Germany. After all, Hitler, at the time of the wedding Gehring, was still unmarried, and Hermann Goering was the second person in the country after him.

Witnesses noted that Emma was really charming and graceful, she won her naturalness. At the time of the daughter's birth, the woman was over 40 years old. Since before she did not give birth, pregnancy was leaking with complications, taking all the forces from the mother in childbirth.

Emma was constantly under the care, both her sister and her sisters. Supported by the woman and her closest friend - Ebba Johannsen, a famous actress.

The whole family was set up for the birth of a boy, but when the girl was born on June 2, 1938, according to eyewitness accounts, Hermann Goering was so happy that he even burst into tears.

The daughter of Hermann Goering, having appeared on the light, stirred up the whole public, it was a resonant event for the whole country. From all corners of the world congratulatory telegrams began to arrive, more than 628 thousand have come. A huge number of gifts for the child and newly born parents came every day. A happy father rolled a feast at home, gathering about 200 people.

However, the happy event was slightly overshadowed by rumors around the alleged paternity.

Who is the real father of Edda?

Immediately after the appearance of the little girl, rumors began circulating that Goering could not be her father, because he was considered impotent. In history, a case was recorded when this man was injured in the groin, and he himself admitted more than once that, in connection with this, he has problems in sexual life.

Hermann Goering was very sensitive to such conversations. There are cases when for the dissolution of this kind of gossip people were sent to concentration camps. Gauleiter Franconia Julius Streicher, one of the members of the party, after the statement that Edda was a child from a test tube, immediately lost his rank.

All doubts were dispelled by Willie Frischauer, who worked on writing the biography of the Nazi leader. He was well acquainted with all members of the family and noted that the daughter of Goering Edda is so similar to her father that all the rumors about her birth, looking at this similarity, become groundless.

In honor of whom the girl was named

Edda - an unusual name, how did it come about in the Hering family? At first there was a version that the girl was named so in honor of the daughter of Mussolini, who was called the same way. After marrying and becoming Countess Ciano, Mussolini's daughter and her husband often visited the Goering. However, after Count Ciano betrayed his famous father-in-law and was shot, his wife became an enemy to the family of the Goering.

Then there was a version that the child was named after the mother's friend - Ebby Johannsen. Only this name did not please his father, and he changed it to Edda. So Edda Goering appeared.

The Collapse of the Great Family

Edda grew up in Berlin. Father was considered the successor of Hitler himself, seemingly a happy future in Edda Goering in his pocket. However, fate turned completely different side.

On April 23, 1945, the SS members arrested the SS men for the fact that the head of the family made an attempt to remove Hitler from power. On the orders of the Führer Goering was expelled from the party and deprived of all posts and titles. The events took place shortly before the end of the Second World War, and Hitler himself had to live shortly, so in a few days the family was released from custody.

Goering decided to surrender to the Americans. This served to the fact that the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced him, where he was recognized as one of the most important criminals of the Second World War. Goering was sentenced to death by hanging.

Hard times

Goering Edda At first had the opportunity to visit her father in prison. After September 13, 1946, these visits were banned.

The same Goering October 16, 1946, died of cyanide potassium. He committed suicide on the eve of his execution, leaving a note: "Marshals do not hang." His daughter at that time was only 8 years old.

When the trial ended, Edda, together with her mother, spent about 4 years in prison of the Western allies of the anti-Hitler coalition.

A few years after these events, the girl's mother noted that this period in their life was the most difficult.

Life after liberation

When the women were released, and this happened in the early 60's, they continued to live in Munich. The girl graduated with honors from the school, and after her graduation she became a student of the law faculty. However, she did not like the chosen profession, and after studying for only 2 semesters, she abandoned her studies.

The Edda's mother wrote a book called "Life with My Husband", but this work did not represent any value, neither from the point of view of history, nor from the point of view of art and literature. Emmy Goering died in 1973.

Edda, after growing up, got a job, she worked as a laboratory assistant in a hospital in Munich. Married Edda Goering (photo in the article) never went out.

The woman never wrote any memoirs, eschewed journalists, limited communication with people who were interested in her father's personality. All her life she avoided politics and did not start a close relationship with anyone.

Edda and her father

Edda Goering is alive And now, in recent years she lives in South Africa. All her life, the woman accused the US of being found guilty by the father, and of having committed suicide. When she was presented with irrefutable evidence that he was implicated in many war crimes, she rejected this information, considering him an ideal person and a very good father. She never criticized him for having been implicated in the mass extermination of Jews.

Hermann Goering "became famous" not only as a war criminal, but also as a robber of state and private collections. During the Nazi regime in Europe, he appropriated many works of art. His daughter believed that the riches taken from his father did not belong to him, but to her mother. She tried to prove that the order of inheritance was violated, and she had to compensate for the lost.

Goering Edda often said that if her father were not a politician, they would be together.

In a petition to the Bavarian legal commission, it was about the fact that Ms. Goering asked for at least part of her things to be returned to her personal needs, because she is now in poverty.

In 2010, in order to improve her financial situation, Edda sold at auction a swastika-embroidered dress that Hitler gave her on the day of his baptism.

Despite this formulation of the petition, the legal committee considered the case only a few minutes and refused to Edde Goering in granting the petition.