THE "PERFECT GERMAN"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 3

THE "PERFECT GERMAN"

General Goering's Ancestry

FAMILY TREE STUDIED

(Own Correspondent — By Air Mail) LONDON, Jan. 6. In race-conscious Nazi Germany, where the possession of a ''non-Aryan" arandmother inay be a tragedy, tlie study of family trees has become a skilled. proiession. A special organisation set up for this purpose at Leipzig bas just completed an investigation of Geuefa] Goering's ancestry. As a result, the General stands revealed as som'ething gpproachmg fhe perfect Germain. " \ He can in future claim blood relationsbip with Bismark, Goethe, Count Zeppelin, and the' Hohenzollern' and \Vittelsbach families. • The good National Soi'ialist need not, however, fear that the popular general has a tho-aristocratic family history, llis ancestors also iiiclnde simpk* farmers and handieral'tsmen, On his iather's side GeneraJ Goering is a mixture of Pomeranian and Rlxine* lander. His mother belonged lo a Munlch family which emigrated to Bavaria irpm the Tyrol at the .beginning of Jast century. ' ' li? tlius eom hines north.- south and west German hlocd i" almost equal proportions. A new yacbt elu1. js being iox/ned tn Jermany y'or "Aryans" "only. . In place of the ImperiaJ Yacht Club, which was dissolved at the end of October on the advice of the ex-Kaiser, a «ew "Yacht Ulub of Germany" has come into be mg under Nar.i auspices, The old club, which onee tncluded many famous men aipong its members, had cohie to be regaided as 'too "reactionary." Its membersliip was gradually falling^ Most forrner members of the Im- ' peria! Yacht Club have receiveed a letr

ter asking for their co-operation in the estabiishment. of the new club, which will be formerly founded in the middlo of next month. This invitation has beon restricted to "Aryans". The new club, which is likely tp draw most of its members from the Services, will arrange the annual regattas at ' Kiel and maintain relations with yachting clubs '* in other countries. Commander Cruesemarin, who was in charge of the Olympic sailing races this summer, has beeh appointed business manager.