Hermann Gg

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Life

Family and origin

Hermann born as a son of the married people Heinrich and Franziska (geb. Tiefenbrunn) in the sanatorium at that time Marienheim (left open, since decades office buildings) in the 22 (today holy spirit STR) in rose home. The family did not reside however in rose home. His father, Dr. Ernst Heinrich was lawyer and of Bismarck as a first realm commissioner for German southwest Africa (today: Namibia) (1885 to 1888) determined.

His younger brother Albert who the National Socialist ideology decided rejected and pressed humans (Jew and non--Jew) by its could protect contacts and information before arbitrary acts and horror of the national socialism, was during the Second World War director/conductor of the Skoda works in Pilsen.

Two sisters (Olga Therese Sophie and Paula Elizabeth pink one) were married in Austria with lawyers.

It had still another older brother: Karl Ernst (* 3.8.1885 + 4.10.1932)

Childhood and youth

Starting from 1901 as well as its nut/mother and his four brothers and sisters on the of its Jewish stepfather Hermann northeast of Epenstein on castle Veldenstein lives, approx. 30 km from Nuremberg.

occurred with 12 years a cadet school Karlsruhe, which did not improve its discipline however particularly. Four years later it changed to the institute for cadet light field with Berlin. With Abitur and officer exam he locked the institute for cadet and occurred 1912 the infantry regiment of Baden "“prince Wilhelm"” No. 12 in the Elsass.

The First World War 1914-18

In the war proved to as taktierender and intelligent leaders; he was first a second lieutenant of the infantry. Because of its Rheumatismus it was in-supplied 1915 to a hospital, where it was convinced a little later by its friend and combat flier, Bruno Loerzer, to step the Air Force. left the hospital without permission and served shortly thereafter as an observer in a flier troop. 1916 he got officially pilot training.

To 14. March of the same yearly it shot its first hostile bomber. After it was characterised as successful flighter pilots, when leader of the fighter squadron 26 functioned and finally ascended to the captain, became it in July 1918 a further honour assign. After the commander of the fighter wing No. had an accident to 1 captain William pure hard with a test flight deadly, became commander of this, when Richthofens admitted "„flying circus "“, squadron. In its new position it finally obtained its 22. and last air victory.

Already after its 19. Firing had been lent to it the medal Pour le The award represented an exception, since a combat pilot at this time actually needed for it 20 air victories.

Its role in the first Weltkieg is not completely undisputed. Since pointed its whole life long a pronounced slope to the Egozentrik, it is accepted that it became so fast ill straight therefore and decided then for the Air Force, because this fast fame and admittingness promised as a war hero - completely contrary to the anonymous mass dying in the contactor ditches. Thus also partly one states, it invented some firings freely.

Time of the Weimar Republic

After the war he in Denmark and Sweden worked as art and a traffic flier. In Sweden he became acquainted with then also its first wife, Carin Freiin of Kantzow geb. Fock, which he married in February 1923 in Munich. It died 1931 at Tuberkulose. Later it called its messuage in the Schorfheide with largely "„Carinhall in memories to it "“. 1935 he married the actress Emmy sun man, with their had he a daughter: Edda was born on 2 June 1938.

nimbus as a war hero and its connections to the aristocracy made him an ideal candidate for the still young NSDAP, which he occurred 1922. Hitler appointed it in December 1922 the director/conductor of the SA. In 9 November 1923 it participated in the Putschversuch in Munich, which was bloodily struck down by the police. which was located in the middle in the ball hail, was heavily hurt by a shot into the thigh. With its Verwundung it was carried by Mitputschisten into the yard residence route 25. The Jewish owner of the messuage, Robert Ballin, took up the strongly bleeding with itself. Ballin and its wife for it by which showed, the no fanatischer Antisemit was exempted from the Holocaust. Because of the pain the hurt one received Morphium, which the beginning of drug craze was from the physician, which should persist to 1945. Over Austria this fled soon for four years abroad. It went first to Italy, where it learned Mussolini to know, and finally to Sweden, until a general amnesty permitted it the return. He spent a short time in a psychiatric hospital, was due to its Morphiumsucht in September 1925 even in a closed department. At the end of of 1927 it returned to Germany and occurred again the NSDAP and SA.

1928 were appointed of one the first NSDAP delegates in Reichstag and now from Hitler to the SA upper group leader. Thus it was in an important key position, in order to smooth for Hitler the way to power.

Realm tag president 1932

After so the choice extremely successful for the NSDAP on 31 July 1932 in the first meeting of Reichstag was selected on 30 August 1932 with the help of all voices of the central party and the Bavarian people's party to the realm tag president. With it the NSDAP had occupied first the third-highest place in the republic. received direct entrance to the realm president Hindenburg by its new office. Already in the next meeting on 12 September 1932 it reached by a procedure trick that despite the dissolution of Reichstag by realm president by Hindenburg still on a vote of no confidence against the government of Papen could be co-ordinated, which brought a blamables result for these. In the following months practiced a crucial influence out with smashing the Weimar Republic.