Adolf Eichmann Biography and Timeline

Adolf Eichmann Born

The future SS official is born to a German family.

Birth of Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.

Eichmann Family Relocates

Spends much of his youth and early adulthood in Austria.

Move to Linz

Moves with his family from Germany to Linz, Austria.

Petroleum Sales Career

Travels through Upper Austria during his commercial employment.

Role range: 1927-1933

Vacuum Oil Employment

Begins work as a traveling salesman for Vacuum Oil.

Role range: 1927-1933

Austrian Nazi Party Membership

Begins formal participation in National Socialist organizations.

Joins the SS

Joins the SS and Austrian Nazi movement.

NSDAP

Appointed Member of Austrian Nazi Party

Austrian Nazi Party Suppressed

Moves to Bavaria as Austrian Nazi activity is restricted.

Leaves Austria for Germany

Leaves Austria after the Nazi Party is suppressed.

Joins Austrian Legion

Joins the Austrian Legion in Bavaria.

Military Training in Germany

Receives several months of military training with Austrian Nazis.

Joins Security Service

Joins the Security Service Main Office as an SS-Scharfuehrer.

Role range: 1934-1939

SD Main Office Assignment

Begins intelligence work within the Nazi security apparatus.

Role range: 1934-1939

Jewish Organisations Desk

Works in an SD section monitoring Jewish organizations.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1939

Zionist Activities Assignment

Develops specialist knowledge of Zionist organizations and emigration.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1939

Jewish Emigration Assessment

Studies Zionist organizations and potential emigration routes.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1939

Palestine Inspection Tour

Travels to the Middle East to assess Jewish emigration possibilities.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1939

Lieutenant Colonel

Appointed Lieutenant Colonel

Raid on Jewish Community Offices

Leads a raid on the Vienna Jewish community offices.

Role range: 1933-1945

Vienna Jewish Community Targeted

The raid follows Germany's annexation of Austria.

Role range: 1933-1945

Forced Emigration Bureau Established

The office centralizes coercive procedures for Jewish emigration.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1938-1939

Vienna Central Office Opens

Opens the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1938-1939

Forced Emigration Procedures Centralised

The Vienna system becomes a model for later Nazi offices.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1938-1939

Vienna Model Developed

Develops centralized procedures for forced Jewish emigration.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1938-1939

Czech Jewish Emigration Bureau

Extends the Vienna model into the Protectorate.

Role range: 1933-1945

Prague Emigration Office

Creates a Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague.

Role range: 1933-1945

RSHA Created

Moves into the Reich Security Main Office structure.

Role range: 1933-1945

Security Agencies Consolidated

His work becomes part of the centralized Nazi security bureaucracy.

Role range: 1933-1945

Berlin Deportation Administration

Coordinates forced emigration and emerging deportation policy.

Role range: 1933-1945

Reich Emigration Office Leadership

Takes leadership of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration.

Role range: 1933-1945

First Mass Deportation Experiment

The failed project becomes an early mass-deportation experiment.

Role range: 1939-1945

Nisko Deportations

Organizes deportations from Vienna and Moravia toward Nisko.

Role range: 1939-1945

IVA 4B

Appointed Head of the IVA 4B Nazi Burueau which deals with "Jewish affairs"

IVA 4B

Appointed Head of the IVA 4B Nazi Burueau which deals with "Jewish affairs"

Role range: 1939-1945

Baden and Saarpfalz Deportations

Organizes deportation of Jews from Baden and Saarpfalz.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1940-1941

Jews Deported to Unoccupied France

Nearly seven thousand people are sent to unoccupied France.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1940-1941

Emigration and Evacuation Office

The unit handles emigration, evacuation and deportation matters.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1940-1941

RSHA IV D 4 Leadership

Becomes director of RSHA section IV D 4.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1940-1941