Why did Hitler choose Göring as his successor instead of someone else?

Why did Hitler choose Göring as his successor instead of someone else like Himmler or Goebbels?

Did he trust/like him more than anyone else in his inner circle?
 

CaliGuy

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Due to his military experience and relative political gravitas, perhaps? After all, Himmler might not have been acceptable to the Wehrmacht and Goebbels appears to have lacked the necessary gravitas and force of character for this role.
 
I would say that at that time (in the 1930s) Goering had more stature than any other senior Nazi. Hess was merely Hitler's deputy for party affairs. Goebbels was the media wizard. but not a powerbroker, AFAIK. Himmler was still second-tier.

Goering.... was a celebrated WW I hero. He was the effective founder of the SS (Hitler wrote that he had handed over to Goering a mass of rabble, and which Goering turned into a disciplined force.) He presided over the creation of the Luftwaffe, as Germany's "premiere aviator". (Did he actually fly anymore?) He also supervised German rearmament, which was a great success (more in spite of Goering than because of him, but Hitler didn't know that).
 
Goering had also long been Hitler's second in command (for instance he was President of the Reichstag even before the Nazis took power), and was very popular with the public in a way no other Nazi save Hitler was. As such he was the logical choice for successor.
 
Goreing was actually pretty competent before he became addicted to morphine.His proformence at the Nurinburg tribunals proved that.In 1930 he was still a functional addict.
 
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