On 10 April 1935, in a church ceremony she married the prominent
Nazi and
Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, becoming
Emmy Göring. It was also Göring's second marriage; his first wife,
Carin, had died in October 1931. Their daughter,
Edda Göring, was born on 2 June 1938, when Emmy was 45 years old. Edda was reported as being named after
the Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari, eldest child of
Benito Mussolini.
Time reported: "Herr and Frau Göring became her fast friends." However, in her autobiography, Göring said her daughter was named after one of her friends. In 1940,
Der Stürmer magazine printed a story alleging that Edda had been conceived by
artificial insemination, implying that her husband was impotent. Hermann Göring demanded that the Nazi Party take action against the editor,
Julius Streicher. Streicher, whose position was already shaky within the party, was stripped of party titles, but allowed to go on publishing
Der Stürmer from his farm near
Nuremberg. German anti-Nazi diarist
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen recorded in 1941 that he had personally overheard the "wife of Göring’s personal physician give the details...to her companion on exactly how the artificial insemination of Frau Goring had been achieved." Hermann Göring named his country house
Carinhall after his first wife, while referring to his hunting lodge at Rominten (now
Krasnolesye)the
Reichsjägerhofas "Emmyhall".
"First Lady of the Third Reich" Emmy served as Hitler's hostess at many state functions prior to the Second World War. This and her claim to be the "First Lady of the Third Reich" created much animosity between herself and Hitler's future wife,
Eva Braun, whom she snubbed and openly despised. Hitler consequently issued angry instructions to Hermann Göring demanding that Emmy treat Eva with more respect; one of the outcomes of Emmy's condescending attitude toward Eva was that she was no longer invited to Hitler's
Bavarian retreat, the
Berghof. As for Eva Braun, she allegedly never forgave Emmy for having assumed the role of "First Lady of the Reich". Emmy and
Magda Goebbels, the wife of Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels, also tried to outshine each other, hosting lavish parties and dressing like royalty. She also hosted foreign dignitaries, such as
Edward, Duke of Windsor and
Wallis Simpson in 1937. Following her husband's promotion to Reichsmarschall| in 1940, she was addressed as (). After the end of the war, she was arrested at her home in Sackdilling and was imprisoned at Straubing camp, from
Nuremberg, A German
denazification court convicted her of being a Nazi and sentenced her to one year in jail. When she was released, 30 percent of her property was confiscated, and she was banned from the stage for five years. She was unable to revive her career. ==Later years and death==