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Emmy Göring

Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1893-03-24
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Also Known As: Emmy Göring, Emma Johanna Henny "Emmy" Sonnemann, Emma Johanna Henny Sonnemann, Emmy Sonnemann

Biography:Emmy Johanna Henny Göring, born Sonnemann on 24 March 1893 in Hamburg, died 8 June 1973 in Munich, was a German actress. Emmy Sonnemann married the actor Karl Köstlin in 1916 and divorced him in 1926. In 1934 she met Hermann Göring, and she became his second wife in 1935. Adolf Hitler attended the wedding in the Berliner Dom and the subsequent wedding party at the Hotel Kaiserhof on 10 April 1935. In 1937 the couple received the luxury motor yacht Carin II as a belated wedding present from the German automobile industry organization. The couple had a daughter, Edda Göring, in 1938. After the end of World War II, Emmy Göring was sentenced to one year of penal servitude in a labor camp for her Nazi connections and was banned from theater and film for five years. In 1967, Emmy Göring published the memoir An der Seite meines Mannes: Begebenheiten und Bekenntnisse.