Edda Göring
| Edda Göring | |
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| Born | 2 June 1938 |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Edda Goering |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Partner(s) | Gerd Heidemann |
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Edda Göring (born 2 June 1938; also known as Edda Goering) is the only child of German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Hermann Göring, by his second marriage to the German actress Emmy Sonnemann.
Born a year before the outbreak of World War II, Edda spent most of her childhood years with her mother at the Göring family estate at Carinhall. As a child she received many historical works of art as gifts, including a painting of the Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
In the final stages of the war, she and her mother moved to their mountain home at Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. After the war, she went to a girls-only school, earned a degree from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and became a law clerk. In the 1950s and 1960s many of the valuable gifts Edda received as a child, including the Madonna and Child painting, became the subject of a 15-year legal battle, which she eventually lost in 1968.
Unlike the children of other high-ranking Nazis, such as Gudrun Himmler and Albert Speer, Jr., Göring did not publicly comment on her father's role but was interviewed for Swedish TV in 1986 when she spoke lovingly of her parents.
The only child of Hermann Göring, Edda was born on 2 June 1938. Her father received approximately 628,000 messages of congratulations on his daughter's birth; tributes came in from all over the world, including telegrams from British Lords Halifax and Londonderry. British historian Giles MacDonogh later described the German reaction to the birth:
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