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As I understand it, Goring's trains were Maerklin. Also, Adolph Galland was described in a biography of Douglas Bader (Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickall) as also having model trains, "but my set isn't as big as his". <br />Goring was once a very strong-willed person (he was once called "der eiserne" (The iron one), but as he got deeper into WWII his will and personality degenerated under the stresses of his job, and his failures of command. He was always totally under the control of Der Fuehrer, to the point where he could no longer make the right decisions, as Galland points out. It is a nice question whether his interest in model trains was a result of his degeneration, or a symptom of it; also it would be interesting to know just when he started to collect them. It is not likely that it was earlier then the 1930s. <br />As any biography shows, there was a lot more to Goring then the crimes that were laid at his door. His biographies invariably touch only briefly on his career in WWI [infantry officer, then ace fighter pilot, cumulating in command of JGI (the Richthofen Jadgeschwader)], and hurry on to his meeting with Hitler and involvement with him. <br />Another point: Goring isn't the only celebrity who was a model railroader...merely the most infamous one. Many prominent people in the performing arts have been model railroaders, though they don't make a big thing of it. Most have been mentioned in Model Railroader at one time or another. A doubtless partial list: Vaughn Monroe, Yul Brynner, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, and [hockey coach] Scotty Bowman. The last three were/are Lionel collectors; the first three were model builders.
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