[siegersallee]

I am reasonably knowledgeable in German (but, certainly no expert).

In the North, the umlaut was not really used. The sound was made when speaking; but, it was written with its non-umlauted two letters depending on the word.

The Third Reich "modernized" German. They did away with the Gothic alphabet and replace it with the Roman and simplified the non-umlauted German with umlauted equivalents.

The umlaut originated in the southern parts of Germany and Austria as did Hitler and the Nazi movement. So the umlaut would have been very familiar to them. They also associated the Gothic alphabet with the Old Prussian aristocracy which they wanted to marginalize for political reasons.

In modern German, names like Goethe have officially been replaced with the simplified: Göte (notice how the 'th' has been dropped in favor of the single’t’).

Now, having said all of that, you always can find exceptions and as I said I am no expert. But, everything I have said is true to the best of my knowledge.

So, my point in all of this is that a presentation Luger associated with Göring would not have the 'Goring' spelling (this is English) and, most likely, the older 'Goering' spelling would have been considerd im-proper German.

This is my humble 0.02USD worth.

Richard