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Hermann Göring

Germanyb. 12 January 1893 · d. 15 October 1946Add to favourites

Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe from 1 March 1935 to 23 April 1945 and plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan from 18 October 1936. On 1 September 1939 Hitler named him his successor in a Reichstag speech. After the Fall of France in 1940 he became Reichsmarschall. On 23 April 1945 he sent Hitler a telegram, and Hitler demanded his resignation. Sentenced to death at Nuremberg on 30 September 1946, he killed himself with cyanide on 15 October 1946, the night before the planned execution.