Original German WWII Herman Göring 50th Birthday Sugar Bowl - Missing Lid - Rare

Original Item. Only One Available. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the NSDAP Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.

This is an outstandingly scarce piece of German porcelain, made to commemorate the fiftieth birthday of Hermann Wilhelm Göring. This was part of a set presented to him on his 50th birthday. The bowl is of white porcelain, some parts glazed yellowish and green, rich, etched gold oak leaf decoration and gold-coloured rims. On the front side is the large, golden coat of arms of the Göring family.

The bottom of the sugar bowl is marked with the logo of the Sèvres factory over an Iron Cross, under which reads:

DEM
REICHSMARSCHALL
DES
GROSSDEUTSCHEN
REICHES
HERMANN
GÖRING
ZU SEINEM
EUNEZIGSTEN
GEBURTSTAG
12. JANUAR 1943

TO THE
REICH MARSHAL
OF THE
GREAT GERMAN
REICH
HERMANN
GORING
ON HIS
50TH
BIRTHDAY
JANUARY 12TH, 1943

The sugar bowl is missing the lid, but it is in great condition overall without any chips or cracks. There is some heavy staining to the interior with loss of finish as well. There is some crazing in the glaze on the interior wall. The bowl measures 4” in diameter from the top and 2 ⅞” from the base. It is 2⅝” tall.

This is an outstanding artifact, one we will likely never see another example of. Ready for further research and display!

A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, Göring was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite ("The Blue Max"). He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG I), the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen. An early member of the NSDAP Party, Göring was among those wounded in A H's failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the last year of his life. After AH became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Göring was named as minister without portfolio in the new government. One of his first acts as a cabinet minister was to oversee the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Heinrich Himmler in 1934.

Following the establishment of the NSDAP state, Göring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force), a position he held until the final days of the regime. Upon being named Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan in 1936, Göring was entrusted with the task of mobilizing all sectors of the economy for war, an assignment which brought numerous government agencies under his control. In September 1939, A H designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices. After the Fall of France in 1940, he was bestowed the specially created rank of Reichsmarschall, which gave him seniority over all officers in Germany's armed forces.

By 1941, Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. As the Second World War progressed, Göring's standing with A H and with the German public declined after the Luftwaffe proved incapable of preventing the Allied bombing of Germany's cities and resupplying surrounded Axis forces in Stalingrad. Around that time, Göring increasingly withdrew from military and political affairs to devote his attention to collecting property and artwork, much of which was stolen from Jewish victims of the war crimes. Informed on 22 April 1945 that A H intended to commit suicide, Göring sent a telegram to A H requesting his permission to assume leadership of the Reich. Considering his request an act of treason, A H removed Göring from all his positions, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest. After the war, Göring was convicted of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide hours before the sentence was to be carried out.