Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich Biography and Timeline

Birth of Reinhard Heydrich

Birth of Reinhard Heydrich, Saxony

Deutscher Schutz und Truzbund

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

Role range: 1914-1918

Freikorps

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

Role range: 1914-1918

Maracker Freikorps

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

Role range: 1914-1918

Maracker Freikorps

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

Role range: 1914-1918

Sicherheitsdienst

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

State Security Service

Helps found the Sicherheitsdienst, the State Security Service

Major

Appointed the rank of Major

NSDAP

Appointed Member of NSDAP

Gestapo

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitsdienst

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Coup

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Night of Long Knives

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Night of Long Knives

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.

Role range: 1933-1945

Night of Long Knives

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Night of Long Knives

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.

Role range: 1933-1945

Night of Long Knives

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Government Report

Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice

Role range: 1933-1945

Purge

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Gestapo

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"

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitsdienst

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitspolizei

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Colonel

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

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945

Gestapo

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Olympia Honor Badge

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)

Role range: 1933-1945

Olympics

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)

Role range: 1933-1945

Ordnungspolizei

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherdienst (SD)

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitsdienst

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)

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitspolizei

Appointed Head of the Sicherheitspolizei, incorporating the SD

Role range: 1933-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt

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

Sicherdienst (SD)

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

Resignation of Werner von Blomberg

Blomberg resigns after Heydrichs SD exposes Blombergs wifes record of prostitution

Role range: 1933-1945

Einsatzgruppen

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Kristallnacht

Instructs the police not to interfere

Role range: 1933-1945

Kristallnacht

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Office of Jewish Emigration

Founds the Office of Jewish Emigration

Role range: 1933-1945

Jewish Emigration

Hermann Goering Appoints Reinhard Heydrich as Head of Jewish Emigration

Role range: 1933-1945

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

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

Role range: 1933-1945