like C & A Brenninkmeyer,* Lufthansa, the Hamburg-Amerika
Line, and I.G. Farben, and minor ones like the Fritz Siebel Air-
craft Works, and the Ufa and Fox movie companies. North
German Lloyd would give him three sea voyages. The Phillip
Reemtsma Tobacco Company gave him a Spitzweg painting of
“The Sunday Huntsman” (Göring marked it “Keep for the
Führer”). Into the early Grundtmann lists crept names of fu-
ture note the Swedish businessman Birger F. Dahlerus, boss of
Electrolux, is glimpsed giving him a dishwasher as early as
(the name of Dahlerus would figure prominently in Göring’s
life and trial). In one Albert Speer, architect, donated a
flower basket, followed in by a brass goblet.
Every municipality in Germany, from Aachen, Altena,
Berlin, Cologne, Düren, and Düsseldorf through the alphabet to
Zossen made regular gifts to him. There were presents from
friends and relatives and in-laws from both Carin’s and
Emmy’s families and from people Hermann did not regard as
properly in his family at all in his unwanted cousin, Her-
bert Göring, and his wife gave him two small Meissen hunting
figurines and in a small bronze vase. The German Colonial
Veterans League gave him a marble doorplate inscribed with his
father’s name. Baroness von Epenstein (his godfather’s widow)
gave him a door from Veldenstein, his childhood castle.
Invited to Göring’s birthday on January , , the
banker Schacht had brought along a modest painting of a bu-
ffalo for him. In pride of place next to Göring, however, he
found a publisher who had donated a complete shooting brake
with four horses.
Soon the first stage of Carinhall would be ready, a simple
- Their gift paid off. Göring’s office files reveal that he authorized C & A to set
up their big Leipzig department store despite the local gauleiter’s protests that
this violated Nazi vows to protect small traders.