Hermann Göring Presentation, Carinhall Billfold Awarded To Building Foremen

Metal-framed, the metal magnetic, marbled leather covers, opens to reveal two panels, each with a marbled leather pocket, the left one emboss stamped in gold-coloured ink "Werkfest Carinhall / Juli 1937 / In Dankbarkeit / Hermann Göring" (Hard Work on Carinhall / July 1937 / In Gratitude / Hermann Göring) both panels with black leather backers, push release, hinged on the left side, 92 mm x 102 mm x 10 mm, light scuff marks on the front, extremely fine.

Footnote: Carinhall was the country residence of Hermann Göring, built on a large hunting estate northeast of Berlin in the Schorfheide forest between the lakes Grossdöllner See and Wuckersee in the north of Brandenburg. Named in honour of his Swedish first wife Carin Göring (1888–1931), it was constructed in stages from 1933 on a large scale, but in the manner of a hunting lodge. The main architect was Werner March, designer of the Olympic stadium in Berlin. On April 10, 1935, Carinhall was the venue for Göring's wedding banquet with his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann. Carinhall became the destination for many of Göring's looted art treasures from acrossoccupied Europe. To prevent Carinhall from falling into the hands of the advancing Red Army, the compound was dynamited on April 28, 1945 at Göring's orders by a Luftwaffe demolition squad. The art treasures were evacuated beforehand to Berchtesgaden. Only the monumental entrance gates, a few foundation structures, and decorative stones remain from the building. A bronze statue by Franz von Stuck, Kämpfende Amazone (1897), once at Carinhall, is now at Eberswalde.