Emma Johanna Henny "Emmy" Göring (née Sonnemann; 24 March 1893 – 8 June 1973) was a German actress and the second wife of Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring. She served as Adolf Hitler's hostess at many state functions and thereby staked a claim to the title of "First Lady of the Third Reich".

Biography

Emmy Göring was born Emma Sonnemann in Hamburg, Germany on 24 March 1893 to a wealthy salesman [and..?]. After schooling, she became an actress at the National Theatre in Weimar.


Married life
On her marriage to actor Karl Köstlin in late 1916, she became Emmy Köstlin. They divorced in [when?].

On 10 April 1935, she married the prominent Nazi and Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, becoming Emmy Göring. It was also Göring's second marriage; his first wife, Carin, had died in October 1931.

Her and Göring's daughter Edda Göring was born on 2 June 1938. Edda was reported as being named after Countess Edda Ciano, eldest child of Benito Mussolini, although other sources say she was named after one of her mother's friends.

Hermann Göring named his country house Carinhall after his first wife, while referring to his hunting lodge at Rominten (now Krasnolesye) – the Reichsjägerhof – as "Emmyhall".