Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Timeline

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed nine aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber. (Intro from Wikipedia)

July 2, 1916 - Konradswaldau (Today Grzędy, SW Poland) - Hans-Ulrich Rudel is born
January(?) 1(?), 1922 - Lauban (Luban, SW corner of Poland) - Attends Elementary School (and later High School) in Lauban
January(?) 1(?), 1933 - Lauban(?) - Joins the Hitler Youth
August 1(?), 1936 - ? - Applies for an officer's career in the Luftwaffe after successfully passing the acceptance test
December 4, 1936 - Wildpark-Werder, near Berlin - Joins the Luftwaffe as a flag Cadet, completing his basic training at Air Warfare School 3
June 1(?), 1937 - Wildpark-Werder(?) - Rudel begins training to become an aircraft pilot
June 1, 1938 - Thalerhof, outside Graz, Austria - Rudel is promoted to Senior Ensign and transfered to I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 168 for dive bomber training =(START)
December 25, 1938 - Thalerhof - Receives his commission as Stuka pilot, and is chosen to attend Recon School
January 1, 1939 - Hildesheim (SE Hanover) - Begins training as an observer at the Hildesheim Reconnaissance School. Promoted to Lieutenant
June 1, 1939 - Prenzlau (SW Stettin) - Transfered to Fernauklärungsgruppe 121 (Long-distance reconnaissance squadron) as an observer
September 1, 1939 - Schneidemühl area (Piła, Poland) - Long-range reconnaisance missions
September 7, 1939 - Breslau (Wrocław, Poland) - Long-range reconnaisance missions
October 15, 1939 - Fritzlar (SW Kassel in Hesse) - Winter at Fritzlar. Missions to the west and northwest
November 10, 1939 - Fritzlar - Rudel receives the Iron Cross 2nd Class

May 1(?), 1940 - near Stuttgart - Training at the Sturzkampffliegerschule (Assault Pilot School)
September 15, 1940 - Crailsheim (SW Nuremberg) - Reassigned to dive bombing
October 1, 1940 - Caen, Normandy - Assigned to I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 (StG-3) during the end of the Battle of Britain
November 2, 1940 - Graz, Austria - Sent to Reserve Flight at Graz while his squadron is sent to the Balkans. Distinguishes himself in formation flying, bombing and gunnery

April 13(?), 1941 - Prabichl, NW of Kapfenberg and Leoben - Easter holidays skiing with friends in the vicinity of Prabichl

April 20(?), 1941 - Graz, Austria - Receives orders to report to 1./StG 2 in Greece
April 29(?), 1941 - Skopje, North Macedonia - Stop in Skopje on his way to Greece

April 30(?), 1941 - Argos, Greece - Rudel lands in Greece at Argos, but receives orders to fly to Molaoi in the Peloponnese
May 1, 1941 - Molaoi, Greece - 1./StG 2 moves out in preparaton for the invasion of Crete

May 22, 1941 - Argos, Greece - 1./StG 2 moves out
May 23, 1941 - Cottbus, Eastern Germany - Rudel flies a damaged Stuka from Argos to Cottbus for repair, via Sofia and Belgrade, while his squadron Moves out

June 16, 1941 - Intersburg (E. Königsberg) - 1./StG 2 moves out to East Prussia in preparation for Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941 - Raczki (NE corner of Poland) - Flies to Raczki to find his squadron
June 23, 1941 - Raczki - 1st combat missions (I./StG 2) over Grodno / Volkovysk (West Belarus)

June 28, 1941 - Nowogradek (Navahrudak, between Grodno and Minsk, Belarus) - 1./StG 2 moves out
July 15, 1941 - Lepiel (150km NE Minsk) - 1./StG 2 moves out. Rudel is awarded the Iron Cross 1st class
July 28, 1941 - Janavičy, E-NE Vitebsk - Receives the iron Cross 1st class and the Front flight clasp for battle pilots
August 29, 1941 - Tyrkowo, S Luga (Turovo, E. Luga, Russia) - Orders to move to Tyrkowo, South of Luga, north sector of the Front. (Rudel identifies the location as "Tyrkowo," south of Luga; however, the only town with a name resembling Tyrkowo is Turovo, just east of Luga).
September 16, 1941 - Tyrkowo - Mission to Kronstadt harbor, an island in the Gulf of Finland where the russian fleet was based. Rudel attacks the Soviet battleship "Marat" for the first time
September 21, 1941 - Tyrkowo - New 2,000-pound bombs arrive at Turovo

Marat blows up
(artist unknown)

September 23, 1941 - Tyrkowo - Rudel flies over Kronstadt harbor and attacks the Soviet Battleship "Marat" with another Stuka. Rudel hits the battleship and sinks it
October 1, 1941 - Kuleshovka, N. of Vyazma - 1./StG 2 moves out - Operations in the direction of Ostaschkov (NW of Rzhev and Tver)
October 20, 1941 - Staritza, between Rzhev and Tver(?) - Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe as Oberleutnant in a Sturzkampfgeschwader
November 14, 1941 - Gorstowo, Between Mozhaysk and Ruza - 1./StG 2 moves out
December 8, 1941 - Gorstowo - Receives the German Cross in Gold
December 25, 1941 - Gorstowo - Christmas in Gorstowo
December 26, 1941 - Dugino, Between Rzhev and Vyazma - The Squadron moves out to the West because of soviet counterattacks
January 6, 1942 - Dugino - Receives the Knight's Cross as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän of the 9./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2
January(?) 20(?), 1942 - Riesengebirge Mountains (Germany, Poland, Czechia border) - Enjoying his leave skiing in the Riesengebirge (returns via Vitebsk, Minsk, Warsaw and Germany)
March 1(?), 1942 - Graz, Austria - Rudel returns to Graz as an instructor of a reserve flight, after getting married back in his home town
June 22, 1942 - Sarabus (Hvardiis'ke, N. of Simferopol, Crimea) - Returns to operations, close to Simferopol
July 20, 1942 - Cottbus, Eastern Germany - While the Squadron moves out to Tatsinskaya (N. of Rostov), Rudel flies a damaged stuka to Cottbus for repair
August 1, 1942 - Vyazma - 9./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1942 - Stalino (Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine) - 9./StG 2 moves out to the Donbass
October 13, 1942 - Karpovka (Between Kalach and Stalingrad) - Appointed commander of 1./StG 2 - supporting the 6th Armee
November 15, 1942 - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - In Hospital. Treated for jaundice
November 21, 1942 - Karpovka - Returns to his squadron
December 22, 1942 - Morozovsk, NE of Shakhty and Rostov - Rudel's squadron moves to an airfield a little further to the West
December 25, 1942 - Morozovsk - Christmas at Morozovsk
January 1(?), 1943 - Tatsinskaya, NE of Shakhty | Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine) - Rudel's squadron at Tatsinskaya, before moving to Schachty (for sorties to the north, his squadron uses an airfield at Voroshilovgrad
February 10, 1943 - Tatsinkaya | Voroshilovgrad - 1st pilot in history to fly 1000 sorties, near izjum (Roven'ky - Horlivka)
February(?) 15(?), 1943 - Berlin - On leave
February(?) 16(?), 1943 - Rechlin, N. of Berlin - Instructed to proceed to Rechlin, where experiments with anti-tank weapons were being carried
February(?) 25(?), 1943 - St Anton am Arlberg, W. Austria - Skiing at St.Anton

Anti-tank Stuka

March 15, 1943 - Poltava, Ukraine - Returns to the front. Rudel switches to an anti-tank JU-
87G-2 Kanonenvogel, armed with two 37mm cannons
March 16, 1943 - over Belgorod region - 1st tank destroyed with 37mm rounds
April 1, 1943 - Kertsch, Eastern Crimea - The Squadron moves out
May 1, 1943 - Kharkov, Ukraine - The Squadron moves out
May 11, 1943 - Berlin - Flies to Berlin in a Messerchmitt Me109. Receives from Hitler the Oakleaves for his Knight's Cross as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän of the 1./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann.
May 13, 1943 - Kertsch, Eastern Crimea - Back with his Wing at Kertsch
June 30(?), 1943 - Kuban Bridgehead - In the spring of 1943, Rudel sinks 70 Soviet landing craft with the Ju 87 G during the fighting for the Kuban bridgehead
July 4, 1943 - Melitopol, Southern Ukraine - Urgent orders to move out of Melitopol
July 5, 1943 - Kharkov - Rudel reaches Kharkov
July 6, 1943 - Belgorod - Moves out to Belgorod, to support the "Totenkopf" division during the Battle of Kursk
July 12, 1943 - Belgorod - Rudel claims 12 soviet tanks in one day
July 15(?), 1943 - Orel - Rudel's squadron moves to the other side of the bulge
July 18, 1943 - Orel - Given command of the III./StG 2 "Immelmann" after Hauptmann Walter Krauß is killed
July 31, 1943 - Karachev, Between Bryansk and Orel -  III./StG 2 moves out to Karachev
September 1, 1943 - Pervomais'k, S. of Kharkov -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1943 - Novokrasne, W. of Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 30, 1943 - Kostromka, NW of Kherson - 100th tank kill
November 25, 1943 - Wolfschanze, Rastenburg - Receives from Hitler the Swords for his Knight's Cross with Oakleaves as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", at the same time that fighter ace Dietrich Hrabak is also decorated
December 24, 1943 - Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine - Returns to his wing, via Vienna, Kraków, Lemberg, Vinnitsa
January 5, 1944 - Kirovograd - Distinguishes himself again during the Battle of Kirovograd (January 5th - 16th)

Rudel and Hentschel

January 11, 1944 - Kirovograd - 150th tank kill
March 1, 1944 - Pervomais'k, SE of Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) - Rudel reaches the 1,800th mission - 202 tanks destroyed in total
March 13, 1944 - Pervomais'k - Evades aerial combat with soviet ace Lev Shestakov, who crashes
March 14, 1944 - Nikolayev (Mykolaiv, Ukraine) -  III./StG 2 moves out
March 20, 1944 - Raukhivka, N. of Odessa -  III./StG 2 moves out. During the mission targeting the Yampol Bridge, Rudel and his gunner Erwin Hentschel completed their 1,400th mission. Rudel skillfully landed their aircraft behind enemy lines to rescue downed comrades. Tragically, during an unsuccessful attempt to save a seventh comrade, Hentschel drowned in the icy waters of the Dniester River as they fled from pursuing Soviet soldiers.
March 25, 1944 - Iasi (Romania-Moldova border) -  III./StG 2 moves out
March 27, 1944 - Iasi - Rudel destroys 17 tanks in a single day
March 29, 1944 - Iasi - Awarded the Diamonds for his Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords as Major and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann"
April 2, 1944 - Berchstesgaden - Hitler's Eagle's Nest - Enjoys two days in the Berghof and receives the award from Hitler
April 5, 1944 - Götlitz (Germany-Poland border) - Returns to Görlitz, where the townspeople give a reception in his honor
April 10, 1944 - Husi (Romania-Moldova border) - Returns to the front (while Barkhorn's JG52 is at the same airfield)
May 31, 1944 - over Husi - Rudel is escorted on a mission by history's two greatest fighter aces, Erich Hartmann and Gerhard Barkhorn. During the mission, Barkhorn is shot down and wounded.
June 3, 1944 - Husi - Rudel's 2000th mission. Awarded the Front flight clasp for battle pilots in gold with Diamonds and a pendant with the number 2000
June 6(?), 1944 - Near the Berghof - Receives the award from Göring. Short stay at Görlitz
July 13, 1944 - Zamosc, SE Poland - III./StG 2 receives orders to move to central sector
July 22, 1944 - Mielec, NW of Kraków - III./StG 2 moves again as the soviets approach
July 28, 1944 - Insterburg (E Konigsberg) (today Chernyakhovsk) - Orders to move to East Prussia
August 1, 1944 - Wenden (Cēsis), NE of Riga, Latvia - III./StG 2 moves out to Wenden, Latvia
August 6, 1944 - Wenden - 11 Tanks destroyed in a day - 320 in total
August 19, 1944 - Ērgļi, Kurland (Latvia) - Shot down by flak but is able to make an emergency landing near the front German lines
August 30(?), 1944 - Buzau, near Ploiesti, Romania - III./StG 2 receives alarming reports that the soviets are driving into Romania and is transfered overnight to Buzau  (from Latvia), via East Prussia, Kraków and Debrecen
September 1, 1944 - Buzau - Promoted to Oberstleutnant
September 12, 1944 - Tasnad, NW Romania -  III./StG 2 moves out
September 16, 1944 - Zalau, NW Romania -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1944 - Ferihery, SE Budapest - III./StG 2 moves out to Budapest. Rudel is appointed leader of SG 2
November 15, 1944 - Várpalota, W. of Székesfehérvár - SG 2 moves out
November 17, 1944 - Héviz, W. Lake Balaton, Hungary - Rudel is wounded in the thigh by ground fire and has to make an emergency landing at the fighter airfield in Budapest. He is taken by a Fieseler Storch to a sanatorium in Héviz, Lake Balaton, where two bullet wounds are treated. Rudel ignores the doctor's instructions and leaves the hospital without permission.
December 1, 1944 - Veces, Budapest - Rudel returns to his squadron a short time later with a plaster cast
December 22, 1944 - Várpalota, W. of Székesfehérvár - Back at Várpalota. Rudel completes his 2,400th combat mission. 463 tank kills
December 25, 1944 - Kemenesszentpéter, NW of Pápa, Hungary - Christmas at Kemenesszentpéter
December 30, 1944 - Kemenesszentpéter - Orders arrive to report to Reichmarshall Göring
December 31, 1944 - Vienna | Berlin - Visiting friends in Vienna on his way to Berlin
January 1, 1945 - Frankfurt - Reaches Frankfurt in the Reichmarshall's train. He is surprised to see many Me109 and Fw190s flying westward (Opeation Bodenplatte)
January 2, 1945 - Führer's HQ, Adlerhorst, Langenhain-Ziegenberg - Meets Hitler, Göring, Dönitz, Keitel and Jodl at the Führer's west HQ. Hitler Receives from Hitle the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with golden Oak leaves, Swords and Diamonds as Oberstleutnant and Geschwaderkommodore of Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", in presence of Göring and Dönitz. Hitler orders him to stop flying, but Rudel convinces him to continue
January 4(?), 1945 - Görlitz | Budapest - Flies to Görlitz to see his family and continues to Budapest on the same day
January 14, 1945 - S. of Sopron, Hungary - Rudel is awarded the Gold Medal for Bravery (Highest hungarian bravery award) by State leader Ferenc Szálasi
January 15, 1945 - Udetfeld, N. of Katowice - Orders to move SG 2 to Upper Silesia
January 18, 1945 - Grottkau (Grodków, Poland) - Rudel reaches 481 tank kills
January 28, 1945 - Märkisch Friedland (Mirosławiec, E.of Stettin) | Ordensburg Krössinsee - Orders to move the Wing to Märkisch Friedland (other squadrons to Frankfurt). Meeting with Heinrich Himmler at the Ordensburg Krössinsee
February 9, 1945 - Fürstenwalde, E. of Berlin - Rudel and Gadermann are hit by a 40mm shell and crash over Frankfurt am der Oder. Rudel was badly wounded in the right foot, and landed inside German lines as his radio operator shouted flight instructions
February 10, 1945 - Berlin - Rudel is taken to the Zoo Flak Tower, where his leg is amputated below the knee. He begins his convalescence there, receiving visits from Goebbels and Otto Skorzeny, among others
March 25, 1945 - Grossenhain, N. of Dresden - Returns to operations - 493 tanks destroyed total
April(?) 1(?), 1945 - Kummer (Hradčany), SW of Liberec, Czechia - SG 2 moves to Kummer
April 19, 1945 - Berlin - Rudel meets with Hitler in the Führerbunker at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin
April 24, 1945 - Kummer (Hradčany) - Destroys his 26th tank since after returning to combat (519 tank kills in total)
April 27, 1945 - Rechlin, N. of Berlin - Due to the impossibility of landing in Berlin, Rudel lands at Rechlin at night in a He 111 bomber
May 1(?), 1945 - Hermannstädtel (Heřmanův Městec, CZE) - Flies to Air Command HQ
May 7, 1945 - Grossenhain, N. of Dresden - Last mission of the War
May 8, 1945 - Kitzingen, NW of Nuremberg - Surrenders to US forces after 2 hour flight westward (519 destroyed tanks in total)
June(?) 15(?), 1945 - RAF Tangmere - Two weeks at Tangmere answering questions, with Günther Rall
April 1(?), 1946 - Kitzingen - Released from captivity
May(?) 20(?), 1948 - Swiss Alps - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 1(?), 1948 - Rome - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 2(?), 1948 - Madrid - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 3(?), 1948 - Lisbon, Portugal - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 4(?), 1948 - Casablanca - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 5(?), 1948 - Cape Verde(?) - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 6(?), 1948 - Natal, Brazil - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 7(?), 1948 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June 8, 1948 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Rudel arrives in Buenos Aires
November 1, 1949 - Buenos Aires - Publishes a war diary titled "Trotzdem"
December 30(?), 1951 - Llullaillaco Mountain, Andes, Argentina - Rudel climbs the Llullaillaco (6,739m)
February 27(?), 1953 - Llullaillaco Mountain - Rudel climbs the Llullaillaco again
August 28, 1953 - Bielefeld, Germany - Election campaign speech at a meeting of the Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP) in Bielefeld
August 30, 1953 - Lüneburg, Germany - Attends an election meeting of the Neo-Nazi SRP (Socialist Reich Party)
September 2, 1953 - Bayreuth - Rudel is a candidate in the elections for the Deutschen Reichspartei. Attends a meeting of the DRP in the Rotmain Hall, Bayreuth
June 1(?), 1954 - Buenos Aires, Argentina(?) - Rudel is denied a visa for Germany because he is Persona non Grata for Bonn
September 1(?), 1955 - Paraguay - After Juan Perón's fall, Rudel moves to Paraguay, where he acts as a foreign representative for several German companies.
January(?) 1(?), 1957 - Santiago, Chile - Rudel and Dr. Josef Mengele together travel to Chile to spend a week with Walter Rauff, the inventor of the mobile gas chamber
May 14, 1957 - Munich, Germany - Attends the Roehm Trial and cumpliments the defendants Josef "Sepp" Dietrich and Michael Lippert
June 8, 1958 - Malmö, Sweden - Visits the german football team in Sweden during the 1958 FIFA World Cup
January 1(?), 1960 - Saarbrücken, Germany - DRP (Deutsche Reichspartei) reunion
May 30, 1960 - Neunkirchen, Vienna - Meeting of comrades with Herbert Jaschke
September 1(?), 1968 - Munich - Meets Savitri Devi and Oswald Moskey in Munich
April 26, 1970 - Argentina(?) - Survives a stroke
March 1, 1973 - Madrid, Spain - Visit to Juan Perón
August(?) 1(?), 1973 - Colonia dignidad, 35 km east of Parral, Chile - Moves to Chile after the Pinochet Coup

Knight's Cross with Golden Oakleaves
Swords and Diamonds

January(?), 1(?), 1974 - São Paulo, Brazil - Living in São Paulo, Brazil, during 1974
October 1(?), 1976 - Bremgarten Air Base, SW Freiburg, Germany - Rudel Scandal - During a meeting of former members of the Luftwaffe's Squadron 2 "Immelmann", High-ranking Bundeswehr officers Walter Krupinski and Karl-Heinz Franke compared Rudel's nazi past with the KPD past of the Social Democrat Herbert Wehner
October 15, 1976 - Washington D.C., United States - Attends a two-day conference with various members of the US military and defense industry as part of the development of the A-10 Thunderbolt II
January(?) 1(?), 1977 - Germany - Becomes a spokeman for the Deutsche Volksunion (German People's Union), a nationalist political party
June(?) 1(?), 1978 - Ascochinga, Argentina - Rudel visits the German National Football team at the World Cup training camp in Argentina
January(?) 1(?), 1979 - Rosenheim, Bavaria(?) - Rudel returns to Germany

December 18, 1982 - Rosenheim, Bavaria - Hans-Ulrich Rudel dies following another stroke, aged 66 =(END)

Hermann Göring | Timeline

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German WW1 fighter pilot, politician, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was squadron leader during WW1, holder of the "pour le merit" decoration and later, one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.

January 12, 1893 - Rosenheim, Bavaria - Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born

June(?) 1(?), 1893 - Fürth, NW of Nuremberg - After he is weaned, his mother returns to Haiti (where his father was serving as consul general) and leaves him in the care of her friends (possibly relatives) in the Graf family in the Fürth

June(?) 1(?), 1894 - While in Fürth - His mother sails alone back to Germany and begins a love affair with her physician, Dr. Hermann Epenstein

March 9, 1895 - While in Fürth - His brother Albert Günter is born in Friedenau-Berlin (probably fathered by Dr. Epenstein)

May(?) 1(?), 1896 - While in Fürth - Heinrich Göring returns from Haiti, sick and prematurely aged

October(?) 1(?), 1896 - Friedenau-Berlin - Hermann is taken by his parents to live together with their other four children at Friedenau

January(?) 1(?), 1897 - While in Friedenau-Berlin - Dr.Epenstein buys a burg in the bavarian mountain village of Neuhaus an der Pegnitz, 30km NE of Nuremberg, known as "Burg Veldenstein"

January(?) 1(?), 1898 - Burg Veldenstein, 30km NE of Nuremberg - The Görings move to Burg Vendenstein. It was obvious to anyone that his mother was Dr.Epenstein's mistress

January(?) 1(?), 1900 - Fürth, NW of Nuremberg - Enrolled at the "Volksschule" in Fürth at 7

January(?) 1(?), 1902 - Fürth - Attends the humanistic high school in Fürth

January(?) 1(?), 1904 - Ansbach - 11-year-old Göring is transfered to an austere boarding school at Ansbach, for bad behavior

12-year-old Göring in uniform
at the Cadet institute, 1904

June(?) 1(?), 1904 - Karlsruhe - Göring's father applies to have his 12-year-old son admitted to the "Kadetten-Anstalt" (Cadet Institute), a preparatory military institution

April 1, 1909 - Gross Lichterfelde, SW of Berlin - Sent to the Senior Cadet Academy in Gross Lichterfelde, at 16

May 13, 1911 - Gross Lichterfelde - Letter from his company commander, Richard Baron von Keiser, to Göring's father: "I beg to inform Your Excellency that your son Hermann recently passed the Fahnrich [army ensign 1 examination with the grade of "summa cum laude"

March 1(?), 1912 - Mülhausen (Mulhouse, France) - Joins the 4th Badisches Infanterie-Regiment "Prinz Wilhelm" No.112 at Mülhausen as an ensign =(START)

June 22, 1912 - Mülhausen - Awarded his commission

January(?) 1(?), 1913 - While in Mülhausen - The family settles into a modest appartment in Munich, after Dr.Epenstein had gone off with Lilli von Schandrowitz (who he later married)

December 7, 1913 - While in Mülhausen - His father, Heinrich Ernst Göring, dies, aged 74

January 10, 1914 - Mülhausen - After completing the officer's exam, he becomes a platoon commander in his regiment

January 20, 1914 - Mülhausen - Promoted to Leutnant

July 15, 1914 - Habsheim airfield, near Mülhausen - Göring's best friend, Bruno Loerzer, moves to the officers' quarters at Habsheim airfield. Göring reports to the Fliegertruppe (Flying Corps) and is notified that he was on a list to receive training as a pilot

July 28, 1914 - Heubach, E. of Stuttgart, Rhineland - The regiment is on patrol at Heubach when World War I begins

August 8, 1914 - On the way to Alsace - The french take Mülhausen while the regiment is away

August 10, 1914 - Mülhausen - The regiment takes back Mülhausen from the french

August 20, 1914 - Vosges Mountains - Battle of Lorraine (until August 22nd)

September 15, 1914 - Toul, W. of Nancy - Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class

September 23, 1914 - Baccarat, SE of Nancy | Thiacourt | Metz - Battle for Baccarat - Göring forces the french to retreat but he is sent to hospital at Thiacourt (and then Metz) with a severe bout of rheumatoid arthritis

September 24, 1914 - Metz | Freiburg, Germany - Sent by train to the Klinisches Krankenhaus (Clinical Hospital) in Freiburg

September 25(?), 1914 - Freiburg - Göring asks Loerzer to see him in hospital and expresses to his friend his worry that his military career could be over without full use of his legs. Right away, Loerzer tells Göring: "Do you know what you will do? You will come with me to the frontlines as my observer. There you will not need legs and we can have your knees wrapped in cotton bindings - then you will be warm enough"

October 12, 1914 - Freiburg - Discharged from Hospital

October 13, 1914 - Darmstadt - Göring risks being court-martialled and takes the train to Darmstadt to join Loerzer, who was receiving advanced pilot training there

October 28, 1914 - Freiburg - Completes the aerial observer's course and reports to the Feldflieger-Abteilung 25

November 3, 1914 - Stenay, France-Belgium border - Loerzer and Göring fly to their frontline airbase at Stenay

November 5, 1914 - Stenay - First combat flight in a Aviatik B.II

November 15, 1914 - Stenay - Awarded the "Abzeichen für Beobachtungsoffiziere (badge for observation officers)

November 17, 1914 - Stenay - First bombing mission over Verdun

December 22, 1914 - Stenay - Crown Prince Wilhelm visits the Feldflieger-Abteilung 25

January 18, 1915 - Stenay - Loerzer and Göring take their Aviatik B.II for a test flight, after days of heavy rain damage the hangars and airplanes

January 23, 1915 - Trier, Germany - Loerzer and Göring travel to Trier to obtain new photographic equipment and a new Aviatik B.II. They stay for 11 days and in the end they get a new 150-hp Benz-engined Albatros B.I.

February 24, 1915 - Stenay - Loerzer and Göring return to Stenay in their new Albatros B.I. And fly a series of photographic reconnaissance missions over Verdun's fortification system until March 3rd

March 3, 1915 - Stenay - Awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class by the Crown Prince

March 19, 1915 - Mersch, Luxembourg - Bad weather forces Loerzer and Göring to land at Mersch, Luxembourg. 

March 23, 1915 - Stenay - Award ceremony

April 22, 1915 - Stenay - Reconnaissance mission over the northeast portion of Verdun

April 27, 1915 - Stenay - Reconnaissance mission over the north of Verdun

April 29, 1915 - Stenay - Göring tests radio-telegraphy in their airplane, a new technology that allowed the contact with ground units

May 29, 1915 - Stenay - Flies with Oberleutnant Kurt Wegener

May 30, 1915 - Stenay - Second flight with Kurt Wegener, in a Rumpler B.I.

June 3, 1915 - Stenay - Thirty french bombers attack Stenay. Loerzer and Göring reach the airfield and take off to pursue the french, forcing one of the bombers to crash land

June 4, 1915 - Stenay | Freiburg, Germany - Bombing mission over Beaumont (N. of Douaumont) | Göring flies with Kurt Wegener to Freiburg to determine if a captured french-made machine gun was suitable for mounting on their airplanes

June 17, 1915 - Stenay - Flies in an Albatros C.I with Adolf Schmidt, a pilot with two air-victories. For the first time, the aircraft was armed with a ring-mounted flexible machine gun

July 1, 1915 - Freiburg - Reports to the flying school in Freiburg

September 15, 1915 - Freiburg - Göring completes his pilot's qualification

September 17, 1915 - Montmédy, near Stenay (France-Belgium border) - Loerzer visits Göring at Montmédy and both test a Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft LVG B.I.

September 23, 1915 - Montmédy - First assignment as a pilot - He is ordered to fly staff officer Helmuth Wilberg from Montmédy to an airfield near Metz in a Albatros B.I.

September 24, 1915 - Montmédy - Second flight taking Wilberg to Metz

October 1, 1915 - Vouziers (Between Stenay and Reims) - Reports back to the Feldflieger-Abteilung 25, the day the unit relocates to Vouziers airfield

October 3, 1915 - Vouziers - First flight over the frontlines in an Albatros C.I.

November 16, 1915 - Vouziers - Göring is attacked by a french Farman biplane. After a fight, the french aeroplane is shot down - (1 total)

December 14, 1915 - Gotha, Germany - Göring and Emil Flörke fly to Gotha to ferry a new Gotha G.I. bomber to Stenay. After taking off, they crash at the airfield near the aircraft factory's plant. Both of the pilots are wounded

December 28(?), 1915 - Stenay - Back at Stenay

January 29, 1916 - Stenay - Göring's AEG G.II is hit 10 times by french ground fire but he is able to complete the mission

February 21, 1916 - Stenay - Bombing mission over Verdun's fortifications with a AEG G.II bomber

February 22, 1916 - Stenay - Photographic reconnaissance mission over Verdun's fortifications with a AEG G.II bomber

February 26, 1916 - Stenay - Flight as a observer in a AEG G.II bomber

March 13, 1916 - Stenay - Flight without incident

March 14, 1916 - Stenay - Göring is attacked by three french Caudron G-4 and is able to force one of them to land within german lines - (2 total)

March 15, 1916 - Montmédy - Göring is driven to Montmédy to select a replacement pilot for Ludwig Kienlin (who was shot down and killed on March 13). He meets Unteroffizier Wilhelm Hübener, who accepts to join Göring at Stenay

April 4, 1916 - Stenay - Three-hour mission with a trio of AEG G.II bombers

April 10(?), 1916 - Hennigsdorf, near Berlin - Göring travels to the AEG factory in Hennigsdorf to inspect a new aeroplane

April 17, 1916 - Stenay - Returns to Stenay

April 21, 1916 - Stenay - Patrol flight

April 30, 1916 - Stenay - First combat flight in the new AEG G.III. Göring has to make an emergency landing near Mouzay, S. Of Stenay

May 16, 1916 - Stenay - Göring begins flying in an Albatros C.III with Caspar Kulenkampff (until July 9th)

July 1, 1916 - Stenay - Reconnaissance mission NW of Verdun

July 9, 1916 - Jametz, N. of Verdun - Göring is transfered to Artillerie-Flieger-Abteilung 203 to fly single-seat fighter aircraft. He test flies a Halberstadt D.II in the same day

July 15, 1916 - Jametz - Göring shoots down a voisin aeroplane (or forces it to land) but is not credited with the claim, despite the witnesses on the ground testifying in Göring's favor

July 23, 1916 - Metz - Göring and the fully recovered Bruno Loerzer are assigned to Metz

July 24, 1916 - Metz - Göring fights agains french aircraft on three different flights. He claims one aircraft destroyed but it's not credited to him

July 30, 1916 - Metz - Göring shoots down a Caudron biplane over La Côte - (3 total)

July 31, 1916 - Stenay - Loerzer and Göring are ordered back to Feldflieger-Abteilung 25

August 5, 1916 - Metz - Loerzer and Göring return to their airbase

August 9, 1916 - Metz - Göring's Halberstadt D.III is badly shot up and he survives with much luck

August 21, 1916 - Metz - Göring flies a "battlefield tour" of the contested area of Verdun in an old AEG G.II

September 6, 1916 - Jametz - Loerzer and Göring are posted to Jametz airfield

September 14, 1916 - Jametz - Göring fights with two aircraft over Nancy

September 28, 1916 - Martincourt-sur-Meuse, N. of Stenay - Loerzer and Göring are transfered to Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 7 at Martincourt-sur-Meuse, north of Stenay

October 20, 1916 - Gonnelieu, S-SW of Cambrai - Loerzer and Göring are transfered to Jasta 5 at Gonnelieu

October 22, 1916 - Gonnelieu - Loerzer and Göring fly two patrols

October 23, 1916 - Gonnelieu - Last patrol before weather conditions deteriorate

November 2, 1916 - Gonnelieu - Göring attacks a british bomber over Combles. He is then attacked and wounded by 6 british newport fighters, but manages to land at his own airfield at Gonnelieu

December 12, 1916 - Bochum, Germany - Discharged from hospital in Bochum

January 15, 1917 - Munich - Discharged from convalescence at a military hospital in Munich. Göring is invited by his godfather Dr. Ritter von Epenstein to Burg Mauterndorf, where he stays for two weeks

February 15, 1917 - Colmar - Reports to Loerzer's Jagdstaffel 26, a unit equiped with the new Albatros D.III aircraft

March 16, 1917 - Colmar - Combat patrol with Fritz Loerzer

March 18, 1917 - Colmar - Göring damages an enemy Caudron

April 11, 1917 - East of Guise - Jasta 26 is ordered to relocate to an airfield east of Guise

April 23, 1917 - Bohain, NE of St.Quentin - Jasta 26 is ordered to relocate 15km Northwest from Guise to Bohain. During the flight to the new airfield, Göring shoots down a british F.E.2b - (4 total)

April 28, 1917 - Bohain - Göring shoots down a Sopwith between Bohain and St.Quentin - (5 total)

April 29, 1917 - Bohain - Shoots down a Nieuport over Ramicourt - (6 total)

May 10, 1917 - Bohain - Shoots down an Airco D.H.4 bomber/reconnaissance aircraft - (7 total)

May 17, 1917 - Bersée, S-SE of Lille - Transfered to Jagdstaffel 27 as the squadron's staffelführer

June 2, 1917 - Bersée - Combat against RNAS Sopwith triplanes

June 5, 1917 - Bersée - Combat against RNAS Sopwith triplanes

June 8, 1917 - Bersée - Shoots down a british Nieuport fighter - (8 total)

June 9, 1917 - Bersée - Damages a B.E.2 reconnaissance aircraft east of Roulers

June 16, 1917 - Iseghem (N of Lille), Belgium - Jasta 27 moves 50km north from Bersée to Iseghem, Belgium, where it joins Bruno Loerzer's Jasta 26

July 16, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring attacks a group of S.E.5 fighters escorting a bomber formation NW of Ypres. He shoots down one of the fighters but his Albatros D.III's engine is knocked loose and is considered beyond repair at the airfield. - (9 total)

July 24, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring receives a new Albatros D.V. On the same day he shoots down a Sopwith Triplane - (10 total)

August 5, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring's patrol attacks a group of 9 Sopwith Camels. The Staffelführer shoots down one of them - (11 total)

August 18, 1917 - Iseghem - Promoted to Oberleutnant

August 25, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring shoots down a Sopwith Camel south of Ypres - (12 total)

September 1, 1917 - Iseghem - General von Hoeppner's memorandum to the chief of the military cabinet: "I cannot at this time approve the [Pour Ie Merite] proposal, since the award of an additional decoration for Leutnant Göring, after [having attained] only ten aerial victories, would show preference compared to [the achievements of] other fighter pilots"

September 3, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring shoots down an Airco D.H.4 two-seater north of Lampernisse - (13 total)

September 20, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring claims another enemy aircraft shot down but no ground confirmation supported his claim

September 21, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring shoots down a Bristol F.2B bomber - (14 total)

October 20, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring is awarded the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal Hohenzollern House Order

October 21, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring shoots down a Sopwith near Bondues, North of Lille - (15 total)

October 30, 1917 - Iseghem - Göring's Jasta strafes allied troops at Passchendaele

November 1, 1917 - Bavichove, NE of Kortrijk, Belgium - Jasta 27 moves 8km southeast to Bavichove

November 7, 1917 - Bavichove - Göring shoots down an Airco D.H.5 - (16 total)

November 24, 1917 - Bavichove - Göring decides to go on leave when gale force winds make air operations impossible

November 28(?), 1917 - Bayerischzell, Austrian border - Göring arrives at a ski resort and spa at Bayerischzell

February 11, 1918 - Bavichove(?) - Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Karl Friedrich Merit Order

February 13, 1918 - Marke, SW Courtrai, Belgium - Jasta 27 (now part of JG III) moves to Marke, SW Coutrai, Belgium

February 18, 1918 - Marke - Göring shoots down a S.E.5 fighter not far from the airfield - (17 total)

February 22, 1918 - Deynze, SW of Ghent - Sent to a field hospital in Deynze for treatment of a tonsillar abscess. For the first time in his life, Göring takes morphine to alleviate pain during treatment

March 7, 1918 - Marke - Returns to his Jasta at Marke

March 12, 1918 - Erchin, SE of Douai, France - Jasta 27 is moved 50km south to Erchin, near Douai

April 7, 1918 - Erchin - Göring shoots down a R.E.8 two-seat reconnaissance aircraft - (18 total)

April 15, 1918 - Halluin, SW of Kortrijk, France - Jasta 27 is moved to Halluin, back in French Flanders

April 22, 1918 - Halluin - Göring is caught by a cross current of wind while landing and flies into a hangar. He is uninjured, but the aircraft is damaged

May 3, 1918 - Halluin - Göring attacks a group of british bombers but has to return to Halluin for lack of fuel

May 21, 1918 - Vivaise, NW Laon - Jasta 27 is moved further south, to Vivaise, northwest Laon, France

Hermann Göring, 1918

May 31, 1918 - Vivaise - Göring is awarded the "Pour le Mérite"

June 3, 1918 - Mont de Soissons, SE of Soissons - Jasta 27 is moved to a farm at Mont de Soissons, SE of Soissons. Göring takes off in a new Fokker D.VII and shoots down a french A.R.1 two-seat reconnaissance biplane over Villers-Cotterêts - (19 total)

June 9, 1918 - Mont de Soissons - Göring shoots down a french Spad S.VII - (20 total)

June 17, 1918 - Mont de Soissons - Göring shoots down a french Spad S.VII - (21 total)

July 3, 1918 - Adlershof, SE Berlin, Germany - Göring test flies the new all-metal Zeppelin-Lindau D.1 fighter. Hauptmann Wilhelm Reinhard, Richthofen's chosen successor as commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, also test flies the aircraft, but during a dive, the top wing falls away and Reinhard, without parachute, is killed in the crash

July 8, 1918 - Berlin - Following the death of Wilhelm Reinhard, Göring is made commander of the Jagdgeschwader 1 "Flying Circus"

July 14, 1918 - Beugneux, S. of Soissons - Göring arrives at the JG I airfield at Beugneux, South of Soissons

July 18, 1918 - Beugneux - Göring shoots down a Spad over St.Bandry - (22 total)

July 19, 1918 - Monthussart-Ferme (Between Braisne and Courcelles-sur-Vesle) - JG I moves 15km to Monthussart-Ferme, outside of Braisne

July 27, 1918 - Monthussart-Ferme - Göring departs on leave to Munich and Mauterndorf, Austria

August 13, 1918 - While in Mauterndorf, Austria - Due to the high casualty rate, JG I is condensed into one Staffel and put under overall command of Oberleutnant Bruno Loerzer, commander of JG III

August 22, 1918 - Busigny | Escaufort, SE of Cambrai - Returns to JG 1

September 2, 1918 - Between Cambrai and St.Quentin(?) - Summoned to 2nd Army headquarters for a high level discussion

September 4, 1918 - Busigny | Escaufort, SE of Cambrai - Returns to JG 1 with new medical staff

September 16, 1918 - Frescaty, outside Metz - JG I is transfered to Metz

September 23, 1918 - Stenay, France-Belgium border - Göring and many of his pilots are invited to JG II's officers' mess at Stenay

September 25, 1918 - Frescaty, outside Metz - Mission with Ernst Udet, who shoots down his sixty-first and sixty-second aerial victories

September 26, 1918 - Frescaty - Mission with Ernst Udet

October 7, 1918 - Marville, N. of Verdun (belgian border) - JG I moves to Marville, north of Verdun

October 10, 1918 - Marville - Two weeks of heavy rains begin, making flying almost impossible

October 22, 1918 - Marville - Göring and Udet depart JG I together. They head for a short leave in Berlin and for Adlershof to test fly a new fighter aircraft

October 30(?), 1918 - Berlin - Attends a party hosted by the Pfalz Aeroplane Works at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin

November 9, 1918 - Tellancourt (France-Belgium-Luxembourg border) - Returns to JG I on the day of Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication

November 11, 1918 - Darmstadt, Germany - JG I flies to Darmstadt, via Mannheim

November 19, 1918 - Aschaffenburg - JG I is demobilized. Göring convenes JG I's 53 officers and 473 non-commissioned officers and other ranks for a final meeting. He discovers his ability as a speaker there

December 1(?), 1918 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

December 15(?), 1918 - Berlin - Attends an officers' rally in the Berlin Philarmonic Hall with the new Prussian Minister of War, General Walter Reinhardt. Göring steps onto the platform and says: "I had guessed, sir, that you, as Minister of War, would put in an appearance here today. But I had hoped to see a black band on your sleeve that would symbolize your deep regret for the outrage you are proposing to inflict on us. Instead of that black band you are wearing blue stripes on your arm. I think, sir, it would have been more appropriate for you to wear red stripes!" [Aplauses] "We officers did our duty for four long years . . . and we risked our bodies for the Fatherland. Now we come home—and how do they treat us? They spit on us and deprive us of what we gloried in wearing. And this I can tell you, that the people are not to blame for such conduct. The people were our comrades—the comrades of each of us, irrespective of social conditions, for four weary years of war . . . Those alone are to blame who have goaded on the people-those men who stabbed our glorious Army in the back and who thought of nothing but of attaining power and of enriching themselves at the expense of the people. And therefore I implore you to cherish hatred—a profound, abiding hatred of those animals who have outraged the German people. . . . But the day will come when we will drive them away out of our Germany. Prepare for that day. Arm yourselves for that day. Work for that day"

January(?) 1(?), 1919 - Kastrup, Denmark - Spends most the yeat of 1919 in Denmark performing aerobatics and giving people brief flights for 50 crowns a trip.

August 2, 1919 - Stockholm, Sweden(?) - Obtains a swedish pilot's license and begins working as a commercial pilot for Svenska Lufttrafik AB

February 13, 1920 - Stockholm, Sweden - Hands his resignation to the Reichswehr (which was not allowed to have an airforce)

February 20, 1920 - Rockelstad castle, Sweden - Flies from Stockholm to Eric von Rosen's Rockelstad castle, where he meets Carin von Kantzow

June(?) 1(?), 1921 - Hochkreuth, near Bayrischzell - Settles at Hochkreuth with Carin. Begins university studies in history and political science in Munich

November 16, 1922 - Munich, Germany - Göring and Carin see Adolf Hitler for the first time at a mass meeting on the Königsplatz, where the swastika is used for the first time

December 13, 1922 - Stockholm, Sweden - Carin von Kantzow obtains her divorce from Baron Nils Gustav von Kantzow

January 3, 1923 - Stockholm - Göring marries Baroness Carin von Kantzow

February(?) 1(?), 1923 - Munich - Göring is given the command of the Sturmabteilung (SA)

SA leader Hermann Göring
November 1923
(Bavarian State Library
Photo Archive Hoffmann)

February 3, 1923 - Obermenzing, Munich - The wedding ceremony is repeated in Obermenzing

November 9, 1923 - Munich - Beer Hall Putsch - Hitler and the Nazis, alongside national conservatives, try to seize power in Munich in the Beer Hall "Putsch" (coup d'état). Troops open fire and 16 nazis are killed. Göring is badly shot in the groin and taken secretly to the clinic of a friend, Professor von Ach. The Nazi Party is banned

November 10(?), 1923 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Carin Göring arranges for friends to come from Garmisch-Partenkirchen and drive him from Munich to their home

November 30, 1923 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Letter from Carin Göring to her mother: "Hermann is in a terrible state. His leg hurts so much he can hardly bear it. Four days ago almost all the wounds that had healed broke out again and there is a horrible amount of pus in the leg still. He was X-rayed and they discovered a mass of fragments of shot as well as the dirt from the street buried in his thigh muscles. They operated on him with an anesthetic, and for the past three days he’s been very feverish. His mind seems to wander; sometimes he even cries, and sometimes he dreams of street fighting. All the time he is suffering indescribable pain. His whole leg is fitted with little rubber tubes to draw out the pus. He is so kind, so patient, so good, but deep in his heart he is desperately unhappy"

December(?) 1(?), 1923 - Innsbruck, Austria - The police finds Göring and arrests him in hospital, but he is smuggled out by friends, who take him to Innsbruck

December 8, 1923 - Innsbruck - Letter from Carin Göring to her mother: "I’m sitting here by my beloved Hermann’s sickbed. I’ve got to watch him suffer in body and soul—and there’s hardly anything I can do to help him. You know how awful that feels. His wound is just all pus, all over his thigh. He bites the pillow because it hurts him so much, and he moans all the time. You can imagine how this eats into my heart. It’s exactly a month since they shot at him, and in spite of being dosed with morphine every day, his pain stays just as bad as ever. I left the hotel and moved here into the hospital a fortnight ago. I feel so much better to be with him all the time. Spies watch over our villa in Munich; our letters are being confiscated; our bank accounts are blocked, and our car has been taken away. . . . They tell me a warrant has been issued for my arrest, too."

December 24, 1923 - Innsbruck, Austria - Göring leaves hospital

April 15, 1924 - While in Innsbruck - Carin Göring visits Hitler in prison

May 11, 1924 - Venice, Italy - The Görings move for a brief stay at the Hotel Britannia in Venice, Italy

May 20(?), 1924 - Rome, Italy - The Görings visit Rome, via Florence and Siena

May(?) 1(?), 1925 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Görings arrive in Stockholm, via Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. Carin arrives with heart illness and Göring overweight and addicted to morphine

July(?) 1(?), 1925 - Stockholm - Göring's addiction worsens in the Summer with outbreaks of violence

August 6, 1925 - Stockholm - Göring is admitted in Aspudden's nursing home for withrawal of his Eucodal addiction

September 2, 1925 - Stockholm - Göring is placed in Långbro Hospital for his violent behavior

October 7, 1925 - Stockholm - Leaves Långbro Hospital after one month

July 3, 1926 - Weimar - 2nd NSDAP congress (2 days)

January 1(?), 1927 - Berlin(?) - Göring returns to Germany after amnesty is granted to the participants of the Munich Putsch

September 7, 1927 - Stockholm, Sweden - Göring is admitted in Långbro asylum for morphine abuse

September 26, 1927 - Stockholm - Göring leaves Långbro clinic after 19 days

December 25, 1927 - Stockholm - Spends Christmas with Carin in Stockholm

May 19, 1928 - Berlin - Letter to Carin on the eve of the elections, asking her to come to Munich

June 14, 1928 - Berlin - At the opening of the Reichstag with Carin

August 1, 1929 - Nuremberg - 4th NSDAP congress (4 days)

November 8, 1929 - Berlin - Speech at the Veteran Soldiers' House for the Berlin Gau in commemoration of the Great War fallen soldiers

April 18, 1930 - Sweden - 6-day vacation in Sweden with Goebbels

July 18, 1930 - Munich - After Hindenburg dissolves the Parliament, Göring and Goebbels leave the Reichstag unhindered and take the night train to Munich

August 30, 1930 - Berlin - Meeting with Hitler and Goebbels

September 10, 1930 - Berlin - Speech in the Sportpalast

September 25, 1930 - Leipzig - Göring and Goebbels go to Leipzig to appear as witnesses in the Leipzig Treason Trial

January 16, 1931 - Berlin - Takes part in discussions with Chancellor Heinrich Bruning at the Reich Chancelery

February 3, 1931 - Berlin - Leads a march out of the Reichstag in protest against the Brüning government

May 1(?), 1931 - Vatican, Rome, Italy - Hitler sends Göring to the Vatican, where he meets the future Pope Pius XII

June 9, 1931 - Munich - Goebbels and Göring participate in a NSDAP leadership conference in Munich

September 25, 1931 - While in Berlin - Carin's mother dies in Stockholm. Carin's doctor warns her that a trip to Stockholm in her weak heart condition could cost her life

September 30, 1931 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Görings arrive in Stockholm. Carin collapses and has to be carried to bed

October 4, 1931 - Stockholm - While at Carin's bedside, Göring receives a telegram from Hitler requesting his return to Berlin

October 10, 1931 - Berlin | Bad Harzburg - Hitler drives to Bad Harzburg with Goebbels and Göring

October 17, 1931 - While in Braunschweig - Carin Göring dies of heart failure in Stockholm

October 21, 1931 - Drottningholm, Sweden - Attends his wife's funeral

October 22, 1931 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin right after the funeral

May 30, 1932 - Berlin - Meeting with Hindenburg, who informs him and Hitler that he was appointing von Papen as Chancellor

July 31, 1932 - Berlin - The nazis win 37% of the votes in the July 1932 Reichtag elections and thus entitled to select the President of the Reichtag - Hermann Göring is selected

August 13, 1932 - Berlin - Meeting with Hindenburg and Hitler, who refuses to cooperate in a coalition government

August 30, 1932 - Berlin - Becomes President of the Reichstag. Sends a note to Emmy Sonnemann in Weimar: "I love you. H"

August 31, 1932 - Berlin - Party at Göring's house with presence of Hitler, Goebbels and Röhm

November 17, 1932 - While in Rome, Italy - While seated next to Mussolini at a banquet given in honor of the guests attending the European Congress of the Academy of Science, Göring receives the news of Von Papen's resignation

November 19, 1932 - Berlin - Arrives in time to prepare Hitler's meeting with Hindenburg

December 6, 1932 - Berlin - Göring is reelected president of the Reichstag

Hitler, Göring and Frick 30/1/1933
US Holocaust memorial museum

January 30, 1933 - Berlin - Appointed Reich Commissioner for Air Traffic

February 2, 1933 - Berlin - The office is renamed Reich Commissioner for Aviation

February 20, 1933 - Berlin - Secret meeting between Adolf Hitler and German businessmen at the official residence of Reichstag President Hermann Göring in Berlin. The meeting raised ℛℳ 2 million for the Nazi Party election campaign. In his speech, Hitler blamed democracy for the rise of communism

February 27, 1933 - Berlin - Göring is one of the first to arrive on the Reichtag, while it was on fire

March 3, 1933 - Frankfurt-am-Main - "My measures will not be crippled by any judicial thinking...I don’t have to worry about justice; my mission is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more!" 

April 10, 1933 - While in Rome, Italy - Telegram from Hitler appointing him Minister President of Prussia

April 26, 1933 - Berlin - Göring establishes the GESTAPO when he returns from Italy

May 5, 1933 - Berlin - Becomes Reichminister of Aviation

May 19, 1933 - Rome, Italy - Two-day visit to Rome

June 1(?), 1933 - Rockelstad Castle, Sweden - Travels to Sweden to attend the marriage of Carin's niece

August 22, 1933 - Berchtesgaden - Goebbels arrives in Berchtesgaden. Meeting with Hitler and Göring

August 30, 1933 - Nuremberg - 5th NSDAP congress, the "Rally of Victory". Leni Riefenstahl's film "Der Sieg des Glaubens" is made at this rally. Göring is bestowed the character of General of the Infantry by Hindenburg

November 4, 1933 - Leipzig - Appears in Court as a witness for the prosecution of the Reichstag arsonists

April 10, 1934 - Berlin - Göring addresses the assembled Gestapo in the presence of Himmler and Heydrich, to explain that Himmler would in future take charge of their work as his deputy.

April 20, 1934 - Berlin - As a means of isolating Röhm, Göring transfers control of the Prussian political police (Gestapo) to Himmler, who, Göring believed, could be counted on to move against Röhm. Reinhard Heydrich becomes his deputy

June 10, 1934 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Party at Carinhall for british and american ambassadors

June 19, 1934 - Carinhall - Carin Göring's sarcophagus is interred in the vault at Carinhall in an elaborate ceremony, after being transported from Sweden. Hitler attends the ceremony aswell as Himmler, who arrives pale and shaken, claiming that he had just survived an attempt made on his life. A shot shattered his car's windshield but he was uninjured

June 28, 1934 - Essen - Hitler and Göring go to Essen to visit the Krupp plant and to attend the wedding of Gauleiter Josef Terboven. Himmler arrives later with reports of Röhm's plans

June 29, 1934 - Berlin - Hitler sends Göring to Berlin to meet with Himmler and Heydrich and plan an action against Röhm

June 30, 1934 - Berlin - Goebbels flies to Berlin and telephones Göring with the codeword "kolibri" to let loose the execution squads on the rest of their unsuspecting victims

October 10, 1934 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Attends the funeral of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

January 1(?), 1935 - Warsaw, Poland - Trip to Warsaw

March 1, 1935 - Berlin - Becomes Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe

March 10, 1935 - Berlin - Interview for the "Daily Mail". Göring reveals the existence of the Luftwaffe, a breach of the Versailles Treaty

April 10, 1935 - Berlin - Göring marries actress Emmy Sonnemann

May 1(?), 1935 - Budapest, Hungary - Göring and wife visit Budapest, Sofia, Dubrovnik and Belgrade during May

May 18, 1935 - Warsaw, Poland - Attends the funeral of Marshal Józef Piłsudski

June 8, 1935 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

October 12, 1935 - Berlin - Topping-out ceremony of the Reich Aviation Ministry

March 2, 1936 - Berlin - Hitler summons Goebbels, Göring, Ribbentrop and Erich Raeder among others to the Reich Chancellery to inform them that he would announce the remilitarization of the Rhineland

April 20, 1936 - Berlin - Promoted to Generaloberst

October 18, 1936 - Berlin - Appointed Commissioner for the Four Year Plan, a project to reduce foreign dependency on iron and steel

January 12(?), 1937 - Berlin - Travels to Italy by train to influence Mussolini

January 15, 1937 - Rome, Italy - Meeting with Benito Mussolini

January 23, 1937 - Rome - Meeting with Benito Mussolini after a brief visit to Capri

February 10, 1937 - Warsaw, Poland - Meets Marshal Śmigly-Rydz in Warsaw

April 20, 1937 - Berlin - Departs for Italy

April 26, 1937 - Rome, Italy - Meeting with Benito Mussolini

June 21, 1937 - Berlin - Speech to the delegates of the International Chamber of Commerce

September 6, 1937 - Nuremberg - 9th NSDAP congress (7 days)

October 14, 1937 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Entertains the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at Carinhall

November 4, 1937 - Berlin - Receives the Polish Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Count Szembek

February 4, 1938 - Berlin - Promoted to Field Marshal

March 26, 1938 - Vienna, Austria - Speech in Vienna

April 26, 1938 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Göring receives the british ambassador Sir Neville Henderson at Carinhall

May 28, 1938 - Berlin - Conference convened by Hitler with Göring, Keitel, Raeder, Ribbentrop and Brauchitsch, among others. Hitler says "It is my unshakable will that Czechoslovakia shall be wiped off the map"

June 2, 1938 - Berlin - Daughter Edda is born

June 22, 1938 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Göring receives the british ambassador Sir Neville Henderson at Carinhall

July 8, 1938 - Carinhall - Göring receives a number of leading aircraft manufacturers for a conference

September 15, 1938 - Berchtesgaden - Hitler receives British Prime-minister Neville Chamberlain

September 16, 1938 - Carinhall - Göring receives the hungarian Minister Sztójy at Carinhall

September 17, 1938 - Carinhall - Göring receives the british ambassador Sir Neville Henderson at Carinhall

September 22, 1938 - Bad Godesberg, Rhine - Neville Chamberlain flies to meet Hitler again - Hitler demands immediate cession of the Sudetenland

October 17, 1938 - Berlin - Göring meets the slovak leader Ferdinand Durcansky and the leader of the german minority in Slovakia, Franz Karmasin

October 22, 1938 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Göring receives Goebbels at his house in Schorfheide

November 2, 1938 - Vienna, Austria - Meets the Italian Foreign Minister Galleazzo Ciano in Vienna

November 12, 1938 - Berlin - Meeting of the Reich Aviation Ministry to decide on measures to dispossess Reich german jews and force them to emigrate

January 24, 1939 - Berlin - Göring establishes the head office of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Berlin

March 12, 1939 - San Remo, Italy - During his vacations, Göring receives a telegram by Hitler ordering him to return to Berlin at once

March 14, 1939 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

April 14, 1939 - Rome, Italy - Meeting with Galleazzo Ciano in Rome

April 15, 1939 - Rome - Meeting with Benito Mussolini

April 17, 1939 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin by train

May 22, 1939 - Berlin - Signing of the "Pact of Steel" in Berlin

July 5, 1939 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Interview with the swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus

July 7, 1939 - Sönke Nissen Koog (near the danish border) - Conference at the property of Birger Dahlerus' wife

July 8, 1939 - Sylt Island - Göring invites Dahlerus for a further conversation 

August 14, 1939 - Berchtesgaden - War conference at Berchtesgaden

August 22, 1939 - Berchtesgaden - Joins Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Hitler orders a military mobilisation against Poland

September 30, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Awarded the Knight's Cross

October 1, 1939 - Carinhall - Meeting with Birger Dahlerus at Carinhall

November 7, 1939 - Berlin - Reception at the Soviet Embassy in Berlin

January 13, 1940 - Berlin - Conference between Hitler, Göring and Keitel about the forced landing in Belgium of Major Helmut Reinberger, who carried the complete plan of attack in the west, together with maps

February 12, 1940 - Carinhall - Himmler meets Göring at Carinhall to discuss deportation of jews

March 24, 1940 - Berlin - In his role as minister responsible for the Four Year Plan, Hermann Göring forbids any further transports into the General Government unless cleared first by himself or Frank

April 2, 1940 - Berlin - Conference with Göring, Raeder and Falkenhorst about the invasion of Denmark and Norway

June 5, 1940 - Dunkirk - Göring visits Dunkirk after the fall of the city. He agrees with Milch to propose to Hitler that a carefully co-ordinated series of mass parachute landings should be made on the RAF fighter stations in England

June 21, 1940 - Compiègne, France - The Armistice is signed between officials of Nazi Germany and the Third French Republic on the same place and same rail carriage where Germany signed their surrender in WW1. Hitler leaves the carriage in disdain, as Ferdinand Foch had done in 1918.

July 19, 1930 - Berlin - Göring is promoted to Reichmarschall, a top rank created especially for him

July 24, 1940 - Carinhall - Göring receives Dr.Albert Plesman, head of the Dutch KLM airline

September 7, 1940 - Berlin(?) - Awarded the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross

Göring during the Battle of Britain

September 7, 1940 - near Cap Blanc-Nez, Pas-de-Calais - Arrives to the command post of Air Fleet 2 to direct the flow of aircraft to London

September 25, 1940 - Rominten Hunting Lodge, East Prussia (Poland-Kaliningrad border) - Göring and Adolph Galland stay in Rominten for 3 days

October 8, 1940 - Berlin - Göring meets René Fonck

February 13, 1941 - Berchtesgaden, Bavaria - Magda Goebbels and the children arrive for a 3-day stay in Göring's house

May 12, 1941 - Veldenstein | Berchtesgaden - Göring is summoned to Berchtesgaden after Rudolf Hess' letter is read by Hitler. He drives 3 hours from Veldenstein

June 29, 1941 - Wolfsschanze, Rastenburg (Ketrzyn) - Hitler hands Göring the leadership successor with full powers in the event that he himself was “deprived of his ability to act”

July 16, 1941 - Wolfsschanze - Conference with Hitler about the exploitation of Germany's captured territories

July 31, 1941 - Berlin - Hermann Göring gives written authorization to Heydrich to prepare and submit a plan for a "total solution of the Jewish question" in territories under German control and to coordinate the participation of all involved government organisations.

November 21, 1941 - Berlin - Attends Ernst Udet's funeral at Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin

November 22, 1941 - Berlin - Attends Werner Mölders' funeral at Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin

November 25, 1941 - Berlin - Conversation with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano: "This year 20 to 30 million people will starve to death in Russia. Maybe it's a good thing, since certain races need to be decimated."

December 1, 1941 - Paris(?) - Conference with Marshal Pétain

January 12, 1942 - Berlin(?) - Göring's birthday with presence of Reinhard Heydrich

January 28, 1942 - Rome, Italy - Visit to Rome in an attempt to draw Mussolini closer to the great war coming

February 4, 1942 - Rome - Dinner with Count Ciano

April 26, 1942 - Berlin - Göring introduces Hitler at a session of the Reichstag

May 31, 1942 - While in Veldenstein - In Veldenstein when a massive british air raid over Cologne severely damages the city

August 6, 1942 - Berlin - Meeting with the Reich Commissioners for the occupied territories: "It used to seem relatively simpler to me. It was called looting. It was up to the person concerned to take away what was conquered. Well, the forms have become more humane. I intend to plunder anyway, and extensively […]"

August 7, 1942 - Berlin - Meeting with Goebbels

October 4, 1942 - Berlin - Speech at a harvest festival in the Sportpalast

January 12, 1943 - Carinhall, Schorfheide - Göring gives the most splendid reception he had ever held to celebrate his 50th birthday

March 8, 1943 - While in Rome, Italy - Goebbels arrives to Hitler's headquarters and the Führer informs him that he was about to dismiss Göring

March 10, 1943 - While in Rome - Conference between Hitler and Rommel in Zaporizhzhya. Göring had lost the confidence of the Führer by that time

March 12, 1943 - Zaporizhzhya - Göring arrives from Rome to face Hitler's criticism

March 17, 1943 - Berlin - Meeting with Goebbels and Albert Speer

March 21, 1943 - Berlin - Hitler visited the Zeughaus Berlin, the old armory on Unter den Linden, to inspect captured Soviet weapons. A group of top Nazi and leading military officials – among them Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, and Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz – were present as well. As an expert, Gersdorff was to guide Hitler on a tour of the exhibition. Moments after Hitler entered the museum, Gersdorff set off two ten-minute delayed fuses on explosive devices hidden in his coat pockets. His plan was to throw himself around Hitler in a death embrace. A detailed plan for a coup d'état had been worked out and was ready to go but, contrary to expectations, Hitler raced through the museum in less than ten minutes. After Hitler had left the building, Gersdorff was able to defuse the devices in a public bathroom “at the last second.” After the attempt, he was transferred back to the Eastern Front, where he managed to evade suspicion

April 13, 1943 - Berchtesgaden - Goebbels travels by train to Berchtesgaden for a meeting with Göring. Shortly before arriving, he suffers terrible pains in the kidneys and his unable to leave his sleeping car

June 25, 1943 - Obersalzberg - Meeting with Goebbels

July 7, 1943 - Wolfsschanze, Rastenburg - Von Braun presents of a 30mm color movie showing an A-4 rocket taking off.

September 9, 1943 - Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine - At Hitler's headquarters, pressing the Führer to make a public statement about the treachery of Italy

November 2, 1943 - Augsburg - Visits the Messerschmitt works to discuss the possible adaptaion of the new jet fighter into a fighter-bomber

March 26, 1944 - Berghof, Berchstesgaden - During a meeting with Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring and Wilhelm Keitel, Adolf Hitler receives a report about the mass escape from Stalag Luft III. In a bad mood, Hitler orders the fugitives to be summarily shot. Himmler and Göring  try to persuade him from that decision, believing the killings would create an international outcry. In the end, they agree to a compromise: half of the allied officers would be shot

March 29, 1944 - Berlin - Returns from leave

June 2, 1944 - Obersalzberg - Visit by Adolf Hitler

June 5, 1944 - Veldenstein, S. of Bayreuth, Bavaria - During the night of June 5-6, Göring is informed that the invasion of France had started

June 6, 1944 - Schloss Klessheim (4km W. of Salzburg, Austria) - Hitler summons Goebbels, Göring, Himmler and Ribbentrop to meet him at Schloss Klessheim

July 11, 1944 - Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg, East Prussia - Von Stauffenberg aborts an attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb because Himmler was not present

July 20, 1944 - Wolfsschanze - Göring, who was at his HQ, 50 km away, arrives at the Wolfsschanze after the attempt against Hitler's life

July 22, 1944 - Wolfsschanze - Meeting with Benito Mussolini at the Wolfsschanze just after the failed attempt on Hitler's life, with the presence of Adolf Hitler, Karl Dönitz and Hermann Göring

September 23, 1944 - Wolfsschanze - Göring supports the mass production of the He162 Volksfighter, which he hoped would be manned by the Hitler Youth trained in gliders

October 30, 1944 - Peenemünde - Hermann Göring attends two V-2 launches

January 27, 1945 - Berlin - Conversation with Hitler about General Student. Meeting with Goebbels

April 10, 1945 - Obersalzberg - Last meeting with Adolf Galland

April 20, 1945 - Berlin - Hitler's 56th birthday. Breefing with Hitler and Himmler before leaving for Berchtesgaden. For the first time, Berlin is bombarded by soviet artillery

April 21, 1945 - near Potsdam - Göring reaches the Luftwaffe High command, during soviet bombardments

April 22, 1945 - Berchtesgaden - Reaches Berchtesgaden

April 23, 1945 - Berchtesgaden - Radio message from Göring, announcing that, unless he received instructions to the contrary, he would in a few hours take over the “overall leadership of the Reich” since this would presumably mean that Hitler had lost his freedom of action. The “Führer” responded with a fit of rage, dismissing Göring from his position as commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe. Göring is put on house arrest and later he is taken to an air-raid shelter

April 28(?), 1945 - Mauterndorf, Austria - Göring and family are taken to his castle in Mauterndorf, under house arrest

April 29, 1945 - While in Mauterndorf - Hitler writes his Last Will and Testament, declaring both Himmler and Göring to be traitors. He strips Himmler of all of his party and state offices and expels him from the Nazi Party. Hitler names Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor

May 6, 1945 - Mauterndorf, Austria - Göring is released and sends a message to Admiral Dönitz

May 7, 1945 - near Zell am See, Austria - Göring flees to Schloss Fischhorn and surrenders to the 36th US Infantry Division

May 9, 1945 - Kitzbühel, Austria - Press conference for the international press at the HQ of the 7th US army in Kitzbühel

May 10, 1945 - Augsburg - Göring is flown to Augsburg where he spends 10 days in an american internment camp

May 21, 1945 - Camp Ashcan, Bad Mondorf, Luxembourg - Göring, Emmy and Edda are taken to the secret US Camp Ashcan in Bad Mondorf, Luxembourg

November 1(?), 1945 - Nuremberg - Taken to Nuremberg to face trial

February 8, 1946 - Nuremberg - Nuremberg Trials - Soviet prosecutor Roman Rudenko brings former Field Marshall Friedrich von Paulus as a witness and after questioning him, he incriminates Göring, Keitel and Jodl

October 1, 1946 - Nuremberg - Göring is sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, to be hanged by October 16th

October 15, 1946 - Nuremberg - The night before his execution date, Hermann Göring commits suicide with a cyanide capsule, aged 53 =(END)