Heinrich Himmler Biography

Birth of Heinrich Himmler, near Munich, son of a Schoolmaster

Appointed Member of NSDAP

Marches alongside Ernst Rohm who the SS would later execute. Arrives to take over the War Ministry but cannot gain entrance

Appointed Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria

Appointed Propaganda Leader of the Nazis

Appointed Reichshuhrer of the SS, it numbers 200 men. Appointed by Hitler to build up a personal bodyguard

Heinrich Himmler becomes Reichsfuhrer-SS and referred to himself by his title instead of his regular SS rank, this sets the precedent for the Commanding General of the SS to be called Reichsfuhrer-SS

Appointed Chief of the Munich Police

Announces the establishment of Dachau as a concentration camp for political prisoners near Munich.

Opens Dachau Concentration Camp for communists & other "political undesireables"

Benefits from the emergency atmosphere surrounding the Enabling Act as SS and police power expand under Nazi rule.

Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo

Appointed Commander of the Prussian Secret Police

Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo

In early 1934, Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer-SS, orders the Leibstandarte to be renamed Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)

In early 1934, Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer-SS, orders the Leibstandarte to be renamed Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). Hitler decided that the SA had to be put in its place, and ordered Himmler and Hermann Goring to prepare their elite units, Himmlers Leibstandarte and Gorings Landespolizeigruppe General Goring, for immediate action

Himmlers title became an actual rank after the Night of the Long Knives, Reichsfuhrer-SS became the highest rank of the SS and was considered the equivalent of a Generalfeldmarschall in the German Army

Himmler has control over the SS, Gestapo (political police) & SD (secret police). Goering hands over the Gestapo to Himmler

Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin

Hitler places the control of the police forces under Himmler. Himmler merges the control of the police & the SS

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

Siezes control of the Gestapo

Created by Himmler. The Reich Main Security Office Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and Reichsfuhrer-SS, the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS). The organization's stated duty was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany

Issues a directive to breakup what remains of Poland & its races

Given plenipotentiary powers covering all police actions in occupied territory

Given power to act independently & have jurisdiction over the Army Chiefs of Staff

Given power to act independently & have jurisdiction over the Army Chiefs of Staff

This record states: An order is issued by the RSHA to block emigration of Jews attempting to leave Belgium or France as part of the "imminent Final Solution of the Jewish question." The RSHA.

This record states: And food in Theresienstadt (a concentration camp to extermination facilities like Auschwitz).

This record states: If they turned over their assets to the RSHA through a 'phony' home-purchase plan.

This record states: Working with Adolf Eichmann's Reich Association of Jews in Germany, deliberately deceived Jews living in Germany and those of other countries by promising them good living quarters, medical care.

This record states: An order is issued by the RSHA to block emigration of Jews attempting to leave Belgium or France as part of the "imminent Final Solution of the Jewish question." The RSHA.

This record states: And food in Theresienstadt (a concentration camp to extermination facilities like Auschwitz).

This record states: If they turned over their assets to the RSHA through a 'phony' home-purchase plan.

This record states: Working with Adolf Eichmann's Reich Association of Jews in Germany, deliberately deceived Jews living in Germany and those of other countries by promising them good living quarters, medical care.

Heinrich Himmler discussed the suitability of various personalities for the position of Reichskommissar for the re-union of Switzerland with Germany and its subsequent Reichsstatthalter with his subordinate Gottlob Berger

Tells the press Dachau will hold 5,000 because the judicial system cannot cope

Appointed Minister of the Interior

Appointed Minister of the Interior

Announces the creation of Dachau near Munich

Surrounds the Hungarian capital with Einsatzgruppen to deport 800,000 Jews

Placed in charge of the concentration camps

Proposes to setup a secret underground camp in the Harz Mountains to produce V2s

In Heinrich Himmlers speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to

In Heinrich Himmlers speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to

Attempts to hold the German line to the Swiss border

The newly created Army Group Vistula, under the command of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler,attemped a counter-attack but failed by 24 February

The newly created Army Group Vistula, under the command of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler,attemped a counter-attack but failed by 24 February

Hitler orders von Greim and Reitsch to fly to Doenitzs headquarters at Ploen, Field Marshal von Greim is ordered by Hitler to arrest the "traitor" Himmler

Himmler asks Count Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to US General Dwight David Eisenhowerr

Arrested by British troops

Commits suicide