Goering, Peter

Goering, Peter, born 14-04-1922 in Weissenfels, was a lieutenant of the Luftwaffe and Hermann Goering‘s (did you know) favorite nephew. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering Commander in Chief of the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Peter was a long time the wingman of General der Flieger, Adolf Galland (Wilhelm) in many air fights.

   Peter Goering was the son of Hermann’s brother Albert, his younger, little-known brother, was his antithesis, a Holocaust hero who devoted himself to saving hundreds of Jews (see Anne Frank) and (see Simon Wiesenthal) and political dissidents, persecuted by the very regime his brother had helped to forge.

     In 1944, a death warrant hung over ­Albert, demanding his execution on sight. He was on the run, hiding in Prague. Hermann dropped everything to save him. “My brother told me then that it was the last time that he could help me, that his position [had] also been shaken, and that he had to ask SS Reichsführer, Heinrich Himmler  personally to smooth over the entire matter,” Albert testified in Nuremberg. However, many of the people whom he had helped testified on his behalf, and he was released. Soon afterwards, Goering was arrested by the Czechs but was once again freed when the full extent of his activities became known. Albert Goering then returned to Germany but found himself shunned because of his family name. He found occasional work as a writer and translator, living in a modest flat far from the baronial splendour of his childhood. Before his death Goering was living on a pension from the government. He knew that if he was married, the pension would transfer to his wife after his death. As a sign of gratitude, in 1966 Goering married his housekeeper so she could receive his pension. One week later, he died without having his wartime activities publicly acknowledged. In 2010 Edda Goering , the daughter of Hermann, said of Albert Goering in an article in The Guardian: He could certainly help people in need himself financially and with his personal influence, but, as soon as it was necessary to involve higher authority or officials, then he had to have the support of my father, which he did get.

Hauptmann Dr. jur. Heinrich “Heinz” Goering  son of Heinrich and Dora (born Barth) Goering, the brother of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering; Heinz was thus the Reichsmarschall’s eldest nephew. Born: 4 September 1907, Wiesbaden and killed in action: 29 July 1944, age 36, near Pogorzel, east of Warsaw, Poland.

Peter Goering (see Goering-Fock) and (see Goering-Sonnemann) was shot down by the turret gunner of a Bristol Blenheim  in the Battle of Britain (see Bomber Harris),   at the age of 19, on 13-10-1941, near the coastline. He is buried on the large German war cemetery of Bourdon in France and uncle Hermann, in a hurry, hunting for new paintings in France, one day stopped to visit his grave.

 Also buried on the Bourdon cemetery are SS Hauptsturmführer, 1^st Battalion of the SS Standarte, the II Battalion of the SS Standarte “Deutschland” , Georg Kubisch, he married Hitler’s first love Maria “Mimi” Reiter,   The flyer aces Oberleutnant, Staffelkapitän of 11./Jagd Geschwader 2 ,  52 victories, nicknamed Richthofengeschwader, Rudi Pflanz, Major, Kommandeur Jagd Geschwader 27 , Heinrich Setz, Hauptmann, Fliegerass. Befehlhaber 3^rd Staffel, Horst Tietzen, SS Standartenführer, Führer of the SS Heimwehr unit , in Danzig, Hans Goetze and Hauptmann, Fliegerass, Befehlhaber 3^rd Staffel of the Schnellkampfgeschwaders 10 , Rudolf Trenn.