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He joined the [[Nazi]] Party in 1922 and in November 1923 participated in the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] with [[Adolf Hitler]]. He was wounded during the event. Following the failure of the attempted coup he fled to [[Sweden]], returning to [[Germany]] in 1927 under amnesty. He was elected to the [[Reichstag]] in 1928 and became its President on 30 August 1932.
Goering founded the [[Gestapo]] in April 1933. He was also in charge of the [[Four Year Plan]] which controlled the national economy. In 1935, Hitler appointed Goering the commander of the German Air Force (''[[Luftwaffe]]''), which he led during [[World War II]]. After [[Rudolph Hess]] flight to England in 1940 Goering was promoted the second most powerful member of the Nazi Party. In one of the biggest blunders of the war, Goering convinced Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt and Hitler not to advance on the trapped allied forces at the [[Battle of Dunkirk]] because he wanted the air force to share in the glory of their destruction. Most of the trapped forces were taken aboard ships to England to fight another day. Still Goering was considered the second most powerful member of the Nazi Party. Hitler also officially designated Goering as his successor in on 29 June 1941. However, during the last two years of the war Goering's power greatly waned. Goering spent much of his time hunting, collecting stolen art and living in seclusion. He was a drug addict. Goering became the subject of ridicule both inside and outside the Nazi Party.<ref>Hamilton, Charles. ''Leaders and Personalities of the Third Reich, Vol. 1'' (1984).</ref>
In the final days of the war in Europe, [[Martin Bormann]] convinced Hitler to remove him from power. Goering later surrendered on May 6, 1945 to units of the U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death at the [[Nuremberg Trials]]. Hours before his execution, Goering committed suicide by [[cyanide]], an embarrassment to his captors. Goering was a documented [[evolutionist]].<ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/holocaust.asp The Holocaust and evolution]</ref>
