Carin von Kantzow
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Carin Göring
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| Born |
Carin Axelina Hulda Fock 21 October 1888 , Sweden |
| Died | 17 October 1931 (aged 42) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Cause of death | Myocardial infarction |
| Resting place | Lovö Kyrka, Lovön, Sweden 59°19′16.71″N 17°50′23.28″E / 59.3213083°N 17.8398000°ECoordinates: 59°19′16.71″N 17°50′23.28″E / 59.3213083°N 17.8398000°E |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Other names | Carin von Kantzow |
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| Children | Thomas von Kantzow |
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| Relatives | Mary von Rosen (sister) |
Carin Axelina Hulda Göring (21 October 1888 – 17 October 1931) was the Swedish first wife of Hermann Göring.
She was born Carin Axelina Hulda Fock in in 1888. Her father, Baron Carl Alexander Fock, was a Swedish Army colonel, from a family which had emigrated to Sweden from Westphalia. Her mother, whose maiden name was Huldine Beamish, was born in 1860 into an Irish family famous for brewing Beamish and Crawford stout in Cork. Her great-great grandfather, William Beamish, was one of the founders of Beamish and Crawford, and her grandfather had served in Britain's Coldstream Guards. Carin's maternal grandmother had founded a private religious sisterhood, the Edelweiss Society. She was the fourth of five daughters; her sisters were Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1882-1956), Mary von Rosen (1886–1967), Elsa, and Lily. Mary was married to Count Eric von Rosen (1879–1948), one of the founding members of the Nationalsocialistiska Blocket ("National Socialist Bloc"), a Swedish National Socialist political party.
She became Carin von Kantzow upon her marriage in 1910 to a Swedish army officer, Nils von Kantzow. Their only child, Thomas von Kantzow, was born in 1913.
In 1920, while she was estranged from her first husband, Carin met Hermann Göring at Rockelstad Castle while she was visiting her sister Mary. Four years younger than she, he was working in Sweden as a commercial pilot for the short-lived airline Svensk Lufttrafik and was at the castle because he had flown Count Eric von Rosen, her sister Mary's husband, there. Göring fell in love with Carin and soon started meeting her in Stockholm, despite the fact, scandalous at the time, that she was a separated woman with a young child. She was divorced from von Kantzow in December 1922 and married Göring on 3 January 1923.
After their marriage, the Görings first lived in a house in the suburbs of Munich. Carin followed her husband and became a member of the Nazi Party. When Göring was badly injured in the groin while marching alongside Hitler in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, Carin took him to Austria, then on to Italy, and nursed him back to health, Carin and Göring's romantic love-story was used by the propaganda machine of Goebbels and the couple toured around the nation to boost the popularity of the Nazi Party.
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