Heinrich Himmler Biography and Timeline

Birth of Heinrich Himmler

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

Munich Beer Hall Putsch

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

NSDAP

Appointed Member of NSDAP

Gauleiter

Appointed Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria

Propaganda

Appointed Propaganda Leader of the Nazis

Role range: 1925-1929

Reichsfuhrer

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

Role range: 1929-1945

Reichsfuhrer

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

Role range: 1929-1945

Dachau Concentration Camp

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

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945

Dachau

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Enabling Act

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

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1929-1945

Chief Police

Appointed Chief of the Munich Police

Role range: 1933-1945

Reform of Policing

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Purge

Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin

Role range: 1933-1945

Assistant Chief

Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo

Role range: 1933-1945

Gestapo

Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo

Role range: 1933-1945

Commander of PSP

Appointed Commander of the Prussian Secret Police

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)

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

Role range: 1933-1945

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Reichsfuhrer

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

Role range: 1929-1945

Reform of Policing

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Sicherheitsdienst

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

Role range: 1933-1945

Gestapo

Siezes control of the Gestapo

Role range: 1933-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Rule of Poland

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Reform of Policing

Given plenipotentiary powers covering all police actions in occupied territory

Role range: 1939-1945

Reform of Armed Forces

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

Reform of Armed Forces

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Final Solution

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.

Role range: 1939-1945

Final Solution

And food in Theresienstadt (a concentration camp to extermination facilities like Auschwitz).

Role range: 1939-1945

Final Solution

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Final Solution

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.

Role range: 1939-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

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.

Role range: 1939-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

And food in Theresienstadt (a concentration camp to extermination facilities like Auschwitz).

Role range: 1939-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

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.

Role range: 1939-1945

Invasion of Switzerland

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Dachau

Announces the creation of Dachau near Munich

Role range: 1939-1945

Exile of Heinrich Himmler

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

Role range: 1939-1945

Concentration Camps

Placed in charge of the concentration camps

Role range: 1939-1945

V2 Rocket

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

Role range: 1939-1945