Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich Biography

Birth of Reinhard Heydrich, Saxony

Joins the Deutscher Schutz und Truzbund, an anti-Semitic organisation

Joins the Maracker Freikorps, a right-wing paramilitary group that strongly opposed the Communists

Joins the Maracker Freikorps, a right-wing paramilitary group that strongly opposed the Communists

Joins the Maracker Freikorps, a right-wing paramilitary group that strongly opposes the Communists

Appointed the rank of Major

Appointed Member of NSDAP

Heydrichs counterintelligence service grows into an effective machine of terror and intimidation, it is was officially named Sicherheitsdienst [SD] - Security Service, an intelligence organisation wholly committed to the defence of Nazism. Helps found the Sicherheitsdienst, the State Security Service

Helps found the Sicherheitsdienst, the State Security Service

Hitler says of the Gestapo that "all means, even if they are not in conformity with existing laws and precedents, are permitted if they serve the will of the Fuhrer"

Goering forms a partnership with Himmler and Heydrich, placing the Gestapo under their control, in order to crush the SA

Goering forms a partnership with Himmler and Heydrich, placing the Gestapo under their control, in order to crush the SA

Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice

Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice. Informs the Army of a threatened putsch by the SA, military units go on alert

Heydrich has his men uncover false "evidence" that SA leader Ernst Rohm was plotting to overthrow Hitler

Helps organize the Night of the Long Knives. Goering forms a partnership with Himmler and Heydrich, placing the Gestapo under their control, in order to crush the SA

Heydrich and Himmler put pressure on Hitler to purge the leading members of the SA, and they assure him that the SS will carry out the murders, Heydrich had drawn up lists of all of the powerful SA men to be killed along with Rohm.

Heydrich has his men uncover false "evidence" that SA leader Ernst Rohm was plotting to overthrow Hitler.

Rohm is shot without trial along with all of the important members of the SA in this bloodbath, which the Nazis coined the Night of the Long Knives.

Plays a leading part in eliminating many leaders of the SA who are a threat to Hitler

The SD and the Gestapo are united under the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) under Heydrich, who is promoted to SS colonel

The SD and the Gestapo are united under the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) under Heydrich, who is promoted to SS colonel

Heydrichs suppresses dissent prior to and during the 1936 Olympics, a task he executes with a cold and systematic ruthlessness that gains him the German Olympia Honor Badge (First Class) (Deutsches Olympiaehrenzeich)

Heydrichs suppresses dissent prior to and during the 1936 Olympics, a task he executes with a cold and systematic ruthlessness that gains him the German Olympia Honor Badge (First Class) (Deutsches Olympiaehrenzeich)

The state police agencies in Germany were statutorily divided into the Ordnungspolizei (regular or order police) and the Sicherheitspolizei (state security police). The two police branches were commonly known as the Orpo and SiPo (Kripo and Gestapo combined), respectively

The SD and the Gestapo are united under the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) under Heydrich, who is promoted to SS colonel

The SD and the Gestapo are united under the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) under Heydrich, who is promoted to SS colonel. Appointed Head of the Sicherheitspolizei, incorporating the SD

The SD and the Gestapo are united under the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) under Heydrich, who is promoted to SS colonel

The Sicherheitsdienst benefits from close cooperation with the SS, which Heydrich also gained control of in 1936, as part of a combined security police force. Heydrichs suppresses dissent prior to and during the 1936 Olympics, a task he executes with a cold and systematic ruthlessness that gains him the German Olympia Honor Badge (First Class) (Deutsches Olympiaehrenzeich)

Appointed Head of the Sicherheitspolizei, incorporating the SD

All political police forces throughout Germany are united with Himmler as the chief

Heydrich is placed in charge of the Sicherheitspolizei. The state security police were consolidated and placed under the central command of Reinhard Heydrich, already chief of the party Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and named Sicherheitspolizei

Founds the Office of Jewish Emigration

Blomberg resigns after Heydrichs SD exposes Blombergs wifes record of prostitution

The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of Heydrich and operated by the SS before and during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen had its origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure Government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938

Instructs the police not to interfere

Reports to Goering that 74 Jews had been killed & 20,000 arrested. Reports to Goering 815 Jewish shops & 171 homes destroyed & 191 synagogues set fire

Appointed Chief of Staff for Security by Himmler in Poland

Appointed Chief of Staff for Security by Himmler in Poland

The SD, the Gestapo, and the Criminal Police are unified under one office, the Reich Central Security Office RSHA, which is placed under Heydrichs control

The SD, the Gestapo, and the Criminal Police are unified under one office, the Reich Central Security Office RSHA, which is placed under Heydrichs control

The SD, the Gestapo, and the Criminal Police are unified under one office, the Reich Central Security Office RSHA, which is placed under Heydrichs control

Hermann Goering Appoints Reinhard Heydrich as Head of Jewish Emigration

With the founding of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Sicherheitspolizei as a functioning state agency ceased to exist as the department was merged into the RSHA. Also the RSHA obtained overall command of the Einsatzgruppen

With the founding of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Sicherheitspolizei as a functioning state agency ceased to exist as the department was merged into the RSHA. Also the RSHA obtained overall command of the Einsatzgruppen

With the founding of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Sicherheitspolizei as a functioning state agency ceased to exist as the department was merged into the RSHA. Also the RSHA obtained overall command of the Einsatzgruppen

Orders the, "Polish Ruling Class is to be put out of harms way as far as possible"

Appointed Head of the SS

Appointed Head of the SS

Appointed Head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

Between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and related auxiliary troops killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews

In it's role as the national and NSDAP security service, the RSHA coordinated activities among different agencies that had wide-ranging responsibilities within the Reich. Commanders of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando sub-units were also desk officers from the main office of the RSHA.

The RSHA oversaw the Einsatzgruppen, death squads formed under the direction of Heydrich and operated by the SS. The operational control of the Einsatzgruppen was taken over by the RSHA.

When the units were re-formed prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, men of the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the SD, Gestapo, Kripo, Orpo, and Waffen-SS. The units followed the invasion forces of the Wehrmacht Heer (German Army) into Eastern Europe.

The SD was given the responsibility of carrying out the Night and Fog Decree, designed to crush resistance in occupied Europe

Between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and related auxiliary troops killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews

In it's role as the national and NSDAP security service, the RSHA coordinated activities among different agencies that had wide-ranging responsibilities within the Reich. Commanders of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando sub-units were also desk officers from the main office of the RSHA.

The RSHA oversaw the Einsatzgruppen, death squads formed under the direction of Heydrich and operated by the SS. The operational control of the Einsatzgruppen was taken over by the RSHA.

When the units were re-formed prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, men of the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the SD, Gestapo, Kripo, Orpo, and Waffen-SS. The units followed the invasion forces of the Wehrmacht Heer (German Army) into Eastern Europe.

The SD was given the responsibility of carrying out the Night and Fog Decree, designed to crush resistance in occupied Europe

Death of Reinhard Heydrich

Appointed SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Polizei

Appointed SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Polizei

Appointed SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Polizei

Appointed "protector" of Bohemia & Moravia

Appointed acting Reichsprotektor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939)

Appointed acting Reichsprotektor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939)

As the governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich applies "carrot-and-stick" methods, the black market is suppressed, food rations and pensions are increased, and unemployment insurance is established for the first time

Heydrich becomes, for all intents and purposes, military dictator of Bohemia and Moravia, changes to the Governments structure leaves President Emil Hacha and his cabinet virtually powerless.

Those associated with the resistance movement or the black market are tortured or executed, under Heydrich, conditions in Prague and the rest of the Czech lands are relatively peaceful and industrial output goes up.

Appointed acting Reichsprotektor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939)

The NAZIs respond to Heydrichs assassination by massacaring the population of Lidice

Chairs the Conference which sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question"

Named in memory of Reinhard Heydrich, coordinator of the Endlosung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question), extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by the German 3rd Reich

After the plans for the Final Solution are laid down at the Wannsee conference, Heydrich is attacked by members of the Czech underground resistance

Dies after an attack by the Czech resistence, 3 Czech parachutists with British support in an open car

The Czech resistence assassinates Heydrich, "the Protector of Bohemia"