Reinhard Heydrich facts for kids
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Reinhard Heydrich
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![]() as SS-Gruppenführer in 1940
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Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia | |
In office 29 September 1941 – 4 June 1942 |
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Appointed by | Adolf Hitler |
Preceded by | Konstantin von Neurath (Protector until 24 August 1943) |
Succeeded by | Kurt Daluege (Acting Protector) |
Director of the Reich Main Security Office | |
In office 27 September 1939 – 4 June 1942 |
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Appointed by | Heinrich Himmler |
Preceded by | Post created |
Succeeded by | Heinrich Himmler (acting) |
President of the International Criminal Police Commission |
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In office 24 August 1940 – 4 June 1942 |
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Preceded by | Otto Steinhäusl |
Succeeded by | Arthur Nebe |
Director of the Gestapo | |
In office 22 April 1934 – 27 September 1939 |
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Appointed by | Heinrich Himmler |
Preceded by | Rudolf Diels |
Succeeded by | Heinrich Müller |
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich
7 March 1904 Halle an der Saale, Prussia, German Empire |
Died | 4 June 1942 Prague-Libeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Prague, Czech Republic) |
(aged 38)
Political party | National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) |
Spouse(s) |
Lina von Osten (m. 1931)
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Children | 4 |
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Relatives | Heinz Heydrich (brother) |
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Years of service | 1922–1942 |
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Battles/wars | World War II |
Awards | See service record section |
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904, Halle – 4 June 1942, Prague) was a high-ranking Nazi officer in World War II.
Heydrich was German SS-Obergruppenführer (General) of the Sicherheitsdienst. He was the head of the RSHA, which included the police and the Gestapo. He was one of those responsible for the Holocaust.
In 1941 Hermann Göring gave Heydrich the order to arrange the "Final Solution". Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by two Czech and Slovak soldiers trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). They had been sent (with a small support team) by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Heydrich died a week later in hospital from sepsis caused by the injuries he sustained.
Images for kids
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Gestapo headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße in Berlin, 1933
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Heydrich (left) with Karl Hermann Frank at Prague Castle in 1941