The Fock family were of Baltic-German origin, which had emigrated from Westphalia to the Duchy of Estonia, then part of Sweden, in the 17th century, and matriculated into the Swedish nobility.

Four years younger than she, he was working in Sweden as a commercial pilot for the short-lived airline Svensk Lufttrafik and was at the castle because he had flown Count Eric von Rosen, her sister Mary's husband, there.

Göring fell in love with Carin and soon started meeting her in Stockholm, even though, scandalous at the time, she was a separated married woman with a young child.

[4] After Göring met Adolf Hitler and joined the Nazi Party in 1922,[5] they moved to Obermenzing [de], a suburb of Munich.

When Göring was badly injured in the groin while marching alongside Hitler in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, Carin took him to Austria, then on to Italy,[7] and nursed him back to health.

[8] Carin and Göring's romantic love-story was used by the propaganda machine of Joseph Goebbels, and the couple toured around the nation to boost the popularity of the Nazi Party.

Göring filled Carinhall with images of Carin, as he did his flat in Berlin, where he created an altar in memory of her which remained even after he remarried in 1935.