Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈhaɪdrɪk /; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS- Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. On , he was mortally wounded with a car bomb.
Reinhard Heydrich earned his high school diploma in the spring of 1922. Instead of fulfilling his father's hopes that he would make a career in music (Heydrich was a gifted violinist), he enlisted in the German navy on , less than a month after his 18th birthday. As a naval officer, Heydrich specialized in signals and communications.
Fact Who was Reinhard Heydrich? Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler smokes a cigar outside on the grass with Reinhard Heydrich and two other officers during a trip to Estonia. Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of James Blevins Reinhard Heydrich was one of the chief architects of the “Final Solution”.
Reinhard Heydrich Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1969-054-16 / Hoffmann, Heinrich (CC BY-SA) Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was a lieutenant-general in the Nazi SS organisation, Gestapo chief, and head of Reich security. A favourite of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Heydrich controlled all police activity in the Third Reich and was instrumental in carrying out the widespread persecution, detention, and ...
Reinhard's mother, Elizabeth Kranz, was a practicing Catholic from a rich musical family in Dresden. As Reinhard grew up, both his father and his classmates inculcated him with a virulent anti-Semitism. He was a loner who tried to prove his superiority through his studies and through sports. Heydrich was in his early teens during World War I.
SS Leader Reinhard Heydrich In brief: Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS organization. Nicknamed "The Blond Beast" by the Nazis, and "Hangman Heydrich" by others, Heydrich had insatiable greed for power and was a cold, calculating manipulator without human compassion who was the leading planner of Hitler's Final Solution in which the Nazis ...
Reinhard Heydrich had many nicknames: "the Blond Beast," "the Hangman," and "the Butcher of Prague" — but none of them quite captured just how ruthless he was. As chief of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich was the man who orchestrated some of the Nazi’s worst atrocities. He was the commanding voice behind Kristallnacht, the German pogrom against Jews in 1938 that foretold the Holocaust ...
Reinhard Heydrich led the Nazi secret police and planned the murder of millions before being killed by resistance fighters in 1942.
For “The Hangman and His Wife,” her biography of the prominent Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Nancy Dougherty interviewed his widow. By Daphne Merkin When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...