Heinrich Ernst Göring (October 31st 1838 - December 7th 1913) is a lawyer and German Fonctionnaire , Gouverneur of the South-western African of 1885 with 1890. He is the father of Hermann Göring.

Civil servant with the service of the II {{E}} Reich, Heinrich Göring is in particular cantonal judge with Altkirch, in the annexed Alsace (Années 1880).

In May 1885, it is named police chief of Reich in African South-west and succeeds Gustav Nachtigal which had proclaimed the German Protectorat. It there unloads the October 21st 1885 and installs its representation with Otjimbingwe where with two assistants it represents the German colonial authority on all the teritoire.

He managed to sign various treaties of protection with the local tribes against the granting of rights on the mines and the trade.

He signs with the chief herero Samuel Maharero, a treaty of protection which is cancelled a few years later. Not having German colonial troops to protect it hormi that from Hereros, Göring was resigned to join the enclave Britannique of Walvis Bay under the escort of Héreros. Ulcerated to have a representative dependant on the good will of indigenous tribes, the German government then decides to send a military quota to found the order of the German colonial Empire and in 1889, a first quota of 21 soldiers ordered by the major Curt von François unloads in African South-west.

Göring leaves African South-west in August 1890 to become consul of Germany with Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

It takes its retirement in 1895.

He dies in Munich the December 7th 1913.

A street of the town of Luderitz still bears the name of Heinrich Goering while that which bore this name to Windhoek was débaptisée at the end of the Nineties.

Distort controversy

In 2005, at the time of the exit of the book of Serge Bilé entitled Noirs in the Nazi camps (editions Of the rock, 2005) it was marked in several press articles being based on this book that Heinrich Goring was governor of African South-west in 1904 and that it had organized the massacre of Hereros, . However this information was inaccurate since the massacre take place 14 years after the departure of Göring, that this one had had only two civils servant to manage the territory during its mandate and that it neither had never organized punitive forwardings against Héréros with which it had signed a built pact of protection nor camps.

Serge Bilé paid however in an interview: “The innovation that I bring is that the first governor of Namibia, Heinrich Goering, who organized the repression of Hereros and the construction of the camps, is the father of the future arm-right of Hitler”. However, the first camps were built under the mandate of Theodor Leutwein, much less known than the father of Hermann Göring. In another interview, Bilé however affirmed in March 2005 which if Heinrich Goering were not indeed governor of the colony at the time of the genocide of Hereros, that it had however started repression “but that the massacre in itself of Hereros was led, twenty years later, by the general Lothar von Trotha”.

It appears that the name of Henrich Göring was used to show the bond between the persons in charge of the Concentration camps in which perished Hereros in 1904 and those of the Second world war.

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• Christian Bader, Namibia , Karthala, 1997

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