Hermann Wilhelm Göring

A German military officer, politician, and aviator who belonged to the highest echelons of the Nazi Party regime led by Adolf Hitler. During World War I, he served as a fighter pilot in the German military, achieving multiple aerial victories. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and led the Sturmabteilung (SA) during the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, Göring rapidly expanded his authority, securing control over the Prussian state government, police, aviation administration, and economic policy. He was involved in founding the Gestapo and became Commander-in-Chief of the re-established German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in 1935. In 1936, he was placed in charge of the Four Year Plan, directing the militarization of the German economy. During World War II, he was deeply involved in the war effort as the top leader of the Luftwaffe and was appointed Reichsmarschall in 1940. Later in the war, he lost influence due to Luftwaffe defeats and Allied bombing of the German homeland, leading to a definitive rupture in his relationship with Hitler in 1945. After the war, he was tried as a primary defendant at the Nuremberg Trials, found guilty on all major counts, and sentenced to death, but he committed suicide shortly before his execution.

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Year	Hermann Wilhelm Göring
1893	Birth of Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Period: January 12, 1893, Location: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany)
1912	Enlistment in the German Military (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1912, Location: German Empire, Mülhausen, etc.)
1914	World War I (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1915	Service as a Fighter Pilot (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1915–1918, Location: Western Front)
1922	Joining the Nazi Party (Age: 29 years old, Period: November 1922, Location: Munich, Germany)
1923	Becoming Leader of the Sturmabteilung (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1923, Location: Munich, Germany) Marriage (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Carin von Kantzow, Age: 30 years old, Period: February 3, 1923, Location: Bavaria region, Germany) Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch, Age: 30 years old, Period: November 8–9, 1923, Location: Munich (Germany))
1928	First Election to the Reichstag (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Age: 34 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Berlin, Reichstag)
1933	Seizure of Power in the State of Prussia (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Berlin and State of Prussia) Reichstag Fire (Age: 40 years old, Period: February 27, 1933, Location: Berlin (Germany)) Appointment as Minister of Aviation (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Age: 40 years old, Period: May 5, 1933, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1934	Night of the Long Knives (Age: 41 years old, Period: June 30 – July 2, 1934, Location: Various places in Germany)
1935	Appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Age: 42 years old, Period: March 1935, Location: Germany) Marriage (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Emmy Sonnemann, Age: 42 years old, Period: April 10, 1935, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1936	Appointment as Head of the Four-Year Plan (Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Age: 43 years old, Period: October 18, 1936, Location: All of Germany centered on Berlin)
1938	Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, Age: 45 years old, Period: November 9–10, 1938, Location: Germany, Austria, Sudetenland, etc.)
1939	World War II (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Designation as Hitler's Successor (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1939, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1940	Promotion to Reichsmarschall (Age: 47 years old, Period: July 1940, Location: Germany)
1945	Rupture with Hitler (Age: 52 years old, Period: April 1945, Location: Berchtesgaden and Berlin) Capture by US Forces (Age: 52 years old, Period: May 7–8, 1945, Location: Austria) Nuremberg Trials (Age: 52 years old, Period: November 1945 – October 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1946	Death Sentence at the Nuremberg Trials (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 1, 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany) Death of Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 15, 1946) Suicide (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 15, 1946, Location: Nuremberg Prison, Germany)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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