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He requested at trial for an execution by firing squad, but was denied, and instead he was sentenced to death by hanging. He committed suicide by ingesting cyanide the night before his scheduled execution. Göring was born on 12 January 1893 [4] at the Marienbad Sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria.
Göring's failure to win the Battle of Britain and prevent the Allied bombing of Germany led to his loss of stature within the Party, aggravated by the low esteem with which he was...
How did Hermann Göring die? Hermann Göring committed suicide by ingesting poison on October 15, 1946, after the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg had condemned him to hang as a war criminal for his actions as part of the Nazi regime during World War II .
On October 15, 1946, the night that his execution was ordered — and a year and a half after Hitler had committed suicide in his own bunker — Göring took a cyanide capsule and died in his cell.
On October 18, 1945, the chief prosecutors of the IMT brought charges against 24 leading German officials, among them Hermann Göring. Hermann Göring (1893–1946) was the highest-ranking Nazi official tried during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hermann Göring took on many positions of power and leadership within the Nazi state. He was ultimately sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Learn more about key dates in Göring's life.
Just two hours before he was to be executed, Göring took poison (it is still not known how he got it) and died. The next day, his body was cremated and the ashes thrown away, along with those of others who had been executed that night.
Hermann Göring, or Hermann Goering, (born Jan. 12, 1893, Rosenheim, Ger.—died Oct. 15, 1946, Nürnberg), German Nazi leader. He fought in World War I with the German air force. In 1922 he joined the Nazi Party and was given command of the SA.
Hitler reacted with Göring's dismissal from all of his offices and expulsion from the party. Arrested on May 21, 1945, by the Americans, he was tried and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials but committed suicide on Oct. 15, 1946, the night before his scheduled execution.
He was sentenced to death by hanging. On October 15, 1946, two hours before his execution was due to take place, Göring committed suicide, taking a poison capsule he had concealed from the guards.