Reinhard Heydrich
1904 – 1942 German Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
SS security chief who chaired the Wannsee Conference coordinating the Holocaust.
- Religion
- Raised Catholic; formally left the church and embraced the SS's anti-Christian, racial worldview, professing atheism in Nazi terms.
- Affiliations
- Nazi Party; SS; head of the SD and RSHA; acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. No occult ties; a ruthless bureaucratic technocrat of terror.
Heydrich built the Nazi intelligence and security empire and, at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, coordinated the bureaucracy of the 'Final Solution.' As acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia he ruled with extreme brutality. He was assassinated by Czechoslovak agents in Prague in 1942, prompting the Lidice massacre in reprisal.
Connections
- associate of Adolf Eichmann — Eichmann served as recording secretary at his Wannsee Conference.
- associate of Adolf Eichmann — Took instructions on deportations within Heydrich's RSHA.
- successor of Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Succeeded him as head of the RSHA after his assassination.
- successor of Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Took over the RSHA after Heydrich's assassination.
- associate of Heinrich Himmler — Himmler's chief lieutenant in the SS security apparatus.
- associate of Heinrich Himmler — His deputy who ran the SD and chaired the Wannsee Conference.
- associate of Hermann Goring — Ordered Heydrich to prepare the 'Final Solution.'
- associate of Wilhelm Frick — His interior ministry overlapped with the growing SS police power.
In the timeline
- 1938 Nazi Germany seizes control of Interpol mentioned