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March 7, 1904 - Halle an der Salle, Sachsen - Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is born
February 1(?), 1919 - Halle - 15-year old Heydrich joins a right-wing paramilitary unit to participate in the recapture of Halle from communist hands
January(?) 1(?), 1921 - Halle - As a result of the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation spread across Germany and many lost their life savings. Few townspeople could afford a musical education at Bruno Heydrich's conservatory. This led to a financial crisis for the Heydrich family.
March 22, 1922 - Kiel - After earning his high School diploma, Heydrich joins the Reichsmarine
April 1, 1922 - Kiel(?) - Heydrich is promoted to Fähnrich zur See (midshipman)
April 1, 1924 - Mürwik Naval Academy - Heydrich is promoted to Oberfähnrich zur See (Senior Midshipman)
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| Heydrich, as a fencer |
July 1, 1928 - ? - Heydrich is promoted to Oberleutnant zur See (sub-lientenant)
December 6, 1930 - Kiel - Heydrich meets Lina von Osten at a rowing-club Ball
December 18, 1930 - Heydrich and Lina announce their engagement
April 30, 1931 - Kiel(?) - Heydrich was charged with "conduct unbecoming to an officer and gentleman" for breaking an engagement promise to a woman he had known for six months before the von Osten engagement. Admiral Erich Raeder dismissed Heydrich from the navy that April
June 30, 1931 - Munich - Himmler interviews Reinhard Heydrich, giving him 20 minutes to outline an organizational plan for a future counter-intelligence service. Himmler is so impressed that he makes Heydrich the head of his "Ic-Dienst", which would become the SD - the Intelligence Agency of the SS and Nazy Party in 1932 =(START)
July 14, 1931 - Hamburg - Heydrich enters into the Hamburg SS
August 1, 1931 - Munich - Heydrich is transfered to Munich and begins his job as chief of the new "Ic-Service"
August 10, 1931 - Munich - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Sturmführer (lieutenant)
October 1(?), 1931 - Munich - Heydrich finishes the creation of a network of spies and informers for intelligence-gathering purposes and to obtain information to be used as blackmail to further political aims
December 1, 1931 - Munich(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Sturmhauptführer (captain)
December 26, 1931 - Grossenbrode - Heydrich keeps the engagement with Lina von Osten and marries her. Promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
July 29, 1932 - Munich(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
March 21, 1933 - Munich(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel)
November 9, 1933 - Munich(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Brigadeführer (Brigadier General)
April 1(?), 1934 - Munich - At Hitler's request, Himmler and Heydrich begin building a dossier on SA leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership
April 10, 1934 - Berlin - Göring addresses the assembled Gestapo in the presence of Himmler and Heydrich, to explain that Himmler would in future take charge of their work as his deputy.
April 20, 1934 - Berlin - As a means of isolating Röhm, Göring transfers control of the Prussian political police (Gestapo) to Himmler, who, Göring believed, could be counted on to move against Röhm. Reinhard Heydrich becomes his deputy
April 22, 1934 - Munich - Himmler names Heydrich to head the Gestapo, while also continuing as head of the SD
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| Heydrich at his office, Munich, 1934 |
June 6, 1934 - Munich(?) - Heydrich is appointed the official Intelligence office of the Nazi party
June 30, 1934 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Gruppenführer (major General)
January(?) 1(?), 1936 - Berlin - For some months, Heydrich is involved in the preparation of the Olympic Games
January 1(?), 1937 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich directs the SD to secretly begin collecting and analysing public opinion and report back their findings. He then had the Gestapo carry out house searches, arrests, and interrogations, thus in effect exercising control over public opinion
June 30, 1934 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich is promoted to SS-Gruppenführer (major General)
January(?) 1(?), 1936 - Berlin - For some months, Heydrich is involved in the preparation of the Olympic Games
January 1(?), 1937 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich directs the SD to secretly begin collecting and analysing public opinion and report back their findings. He then had the Gestapo carry out house searches, arrests, and interrogations, thus in effect exercising control over public opinion
October 19, 1937 - Rome, Italy - Heydrich attends a fashion show in Rome with Benito Mussolini, Heinrich Himmler and Kurt Daluege
February 1(?), 1938 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich intensifies the pressure on Austria by organizing nazi demonstrations and distributing propaganga in Vienna stressing the common Germanic blood of the two countries
February 1(?), 1938 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich intensifies the pressure on Austria by organizing nazi demonstrations and distributing propaganga in Vienna stressing the common Germanic blood of the two countries
March 12, 1938 - Vienna, Austria - Joins austrian SS leader Kaltenbrunner in Vienna
November 10, 1938 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich sends out a telegram to various police organizations giving orders for police behavior during the riots
December 24, 1938 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich advised Gestapo leaders to investigate reasons for arrests, as there were now more prisoners than the space available in concentration camps
January 31, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich ordered that Jews can only be released from protective custody if they present documents for emigration, and that Jews who were being committed to a concentration camp a second time would be committed to concentration camps for life
February 1(?), 1939 - Kitzbühel, Austria - Heydrich attends a SS ski competition
March 16, 1939 - Prague - Onset of Nazi students in the courtyard of Prague Castle - with Hitler, Himmler and Karl Wolff
July 30, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich establishes the "Stiftung Nordhav", a foundation to obtain real estate to be used as rest and recreation centers for members of the SS
September 12, 1939 - Märzdorf | Neudorf - Heydrich first sees air action as a gunner, with bomber Group KG55
September 21, 1939 - Berlin(?) - After discussions with Hitler in the preceding weeks, on 21 September SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD, advised his staff that Jews were to be collected into cities in Poland with good rail links to facilitate their expulsion from territories controlled by Germany, starting with areas that had been incorporated into the Reich. He announced plans to create a reservation in the General Government (the portion of Poland not incorporated into the Reich), where Jews and others deemed undesirable would await further deportation
September 27, 1939 - Berlin(?) - The SD and Sicherheitspolizei (comprising the Gestapo and Kripo police agencies) were combined into the new SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA; Reich Main Security Office), which was placed under Heydrich's control.
October 1, 1939 - Berlin(?) - The title of "Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD" is conferred on Heydrich
October 17, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich orders all gypsy populations to cease travelling or face a concentration camp
November 29, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich issues a cable about the "evacuation of New Eastern Provinces", detailing the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps
January(?) 1(?), 1940 - Werneuchen - Heydrich completes fighter pilot course at Jagdfliegerschule 1 Werneuchen
April 15(?), 1940 - Kristiansand-Kjevik, South Norway - Flies a Bf110 in the Fighter Group II./JG 77 "Herz" as a "hauptmann" (captain)
May 13, 1940 - Stavanger-Sola, Norway - Heydrich's Bf109E-1 crashes during take-off and he is injured
June(?) 1(?), 1940 - Berlin - Heydrich returns to Berlin after another air accident (patrols over north germany and the Netherlands)
August 24, 1940 - Berlin - Heydrich becomes the president of the ICPC (later known as INTERPOL)
December 24, 1938 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich advised Gestapo leaders to investigate reasons for arrests, as there were now more prisoners than the space available in concentration camps
January 31, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich ordered that Jews can only be released from protective custody if they present documents for emigration, and that Jews who were being committed to a concentration camp a second time would be committed to concentration camps for life
February 1(?), 1939 - Kitzbühel, Austria - Heydrich attends a SS ski competition
March 16, 1939 - Prague - Onset of Nazi students in the courtyard of Prague Castle - with Hitler, Himmler and Karl Wolff
July 30, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich establishes the "Stiftung Nordhav", a foundation to obtain real estate to be used as rest and recreation centers for members of the SS
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| Heydrich, as a pilot |
September 21, 1939 - Berlin(?) - After discussions with Hitler in the preceding weeks, on 21 September SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD, advised his staff that Jews were to be collected into cities in Poland with good rail links to facilitate their expulsion from territories controlled by Germany, starting with areas that had been incorporated into the Reich. He announced plans to create a reservation in the General Government (the portion of Poland not incorporated into the Reich), where Jews and others deemed undesirable would await further deportation
September 27, 1939 - Berlin(?) - The SD and Sicherheitspolizei (comprising the Gestapo and Kripo police agencies) were combined into the new SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA; Reich Main Security Office), which was placed under Heydrich's control.
October 1, 1939 - Berlin(?) - The title of "Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD" is conferred on Heydrich
October 17, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich orders all gypsy populations to cease travelling or face a concentration camp
November 29, 1939 - Berlin(?) - Heydrich issues a cable about the "evacuation of New Eastern Provinces", detailing the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps
January(?) 1(?), 1940 - Werneuchen - Heydrich completes fighter pilot course at Jagdfliegerschule 1 Werneuchen
April 15(?), 1940 - Kristiansand-Kjevik, South Norway - Flies a Bf110 in the Fighter Group II./JG 77 "Herz" as a "hauptmann" (captain)
May 13, 1940 - Stavanger-Sola, Norway - Heydrich's Bf109E-1 crashes during take-off and he is injured
June(?) 1(?), 1940 - Berlin - Heydrich returns to Berlin after another air accident (patrols over north germany and the Netherlands)
August 24, 1940 - Berlin - Heydrich becomes the president of the ICPC (later known as INTERPOL)
March 12, 1941 - Wewelsburg - Himmler summons Heydrich, Daluege and other senior officers to Wewelsburg for a 3-day meeting. He declares that one of the aims of the Russian campaign is "to decimate the Slav population by thirty millions"
May 1(?), 1941 - Jever - Service with Luftwaffe's I./JG 1
July 2, 1941 - Berlin - In a letter dated 2 July 1941 Heydrich communicated to his SS and Police Leaders that the Einsatzgruppen were to execute Comintern officials, ranking members of the Communist Party, extremist and radical Communist Party members, people's commissars, and Jews in party and government posts
July 8, 1941 - Berlin - Heydrich announces that all Jews were to be regarded as partisans, and gives the order for all male Jews between the ages of 15 and 45 to be shot.
July 15(?), 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich flies his personal Bf 109 with group II./JG 77 as a "Major"
July 17, 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich orders the four SS Einsatzgruppen under his command to exterminate Jewish and Roma communities in his sphere of influence
July 22, 1941 - over Yampil (olshanka) - Heydrich's Bf109E-7 is hit by soviet anti-aircraft fire (Shot down by Alexander Pokryshkin, according to soviet records). He belly lands behind enemy lines and evades a soviet patrol, contacting a forward german patrol
July 23, 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich returns to Bălţi
July 31, 1941 - Berlin - Heydrich returns to Berlin and is awarded the EK I. Hermann Göring gives written authorization to Heydrich to prepare and submit a plan for a "total solution of the Jewish question" in territories under German control and to coordinate the participation of all involved government organisations.
September 23, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich arrives in Prague after some weeks serving with the Luftwaffe
September 27, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich is promoted to "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei" and appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
September 28, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich orders martial law in Prague
September 29(?), 1941 - Prague - Encounter between Heydrich and the President Hacha of Bohemia and Moravia
October 4, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich meets with Martin Luther and they agree to send a combined delegation from the Foreign Office and IVB4 to Belgrade to investigate
October 10, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich is the senior officer at a "Final Solution" meeting of the RSHA that discussed deporting 50,000 Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga. He establishes a camp-ghetto in Sudetenland in southern Germany (occupied Czechoslovakia) that would later be known as the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. He recommended the site to be used to house deported German, Austrian, and Czechoslovakian Jews. He places Adolf Eichmann and Rolf Günther in charge of establishing this camp-ghetto
October 30, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich appoints Siegfried Seidl the commandant of the camp-ghetto soon to be known as the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia
November 29, 1941 - Prague - Himmler visits Prague. Welcomed by Heydrich and Karl Wolff
December 4, 1941 - Prague - Albert Speer meet Heydrich in Prague to ask him for 15,000 czech workers
January 12, 1942 - Berlin(?) - Göring's birthday with presence of Reinhard Heydrich
January 20, 1942 - Wannsee - Wannsee Conference. At the same time, Prague is taken out of Martial Law
April(?) 2(?), 1942 - Minsk - Heydrich flies to Minsk to deliver in person a stern reprimand to Wilhelm Kube, the Generalkommissar for White Russia
May 26, 1942 - Prague - Heydrich and wife Line attend a concert of Richard Bruno Heydrich's music in the Waldstein Palace
May 27, 1942 - Prague-Liben - As Heydrich begins a trip to Berlin to meet Hitler, he is ambushed and wounded by two british-trained czech nationalists
June 2, 1942 - Prague-Liben - Himmler visits Heydrich in the hospital and both have a conversation. After Himmler's visit, Heydrich's state suddenly worsens because of an infection in the stomachal cavity and slips into a coma
June 4, 1942 - Prague-Liben - Reinhard Heydrich dies of sepsis, in consequence of his wounds, aged 38 =(END)
May 1(?), 1941 - Jever - Service with Luftwaffe's I./JG 1
July 2, 1941 - Berlin - In a letter dated 2 July 1941 Heydrich communicated to his SS and Police Leaders that the Einsatzgruppen were to execute Comintern officials, ranking members of the Communist Party, extremist and radical Communist Party members, people's commissars, and Jews in party and government posts
July 8, 1941 - Berlin - Heydrich announces that all Jews were to be regarded as partisans, and gives the order for all male Jews between the ages of 15 and 45 to be shot.
July 15(?), 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich flies his personal Bf 109 with group II./JG 77 as a "Major"
July 17, 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich orders the four SS Einsatzgruppen under his command to exterminate Jewish and Roma communities in his sphere of influence
July 22, 1941 - over Yampil (olshanka) - Heydrich's Bf109E-7 is hit by soviet anti-aircraft fire (Shot down by Alexander Pokryshkin, according to soviet records). He belly lands behind enemy lines and evades a soviet patrol, contacting a forward german patrol
July 23, 1941 - Bălţi, Moldavia - Heydrich returns to Bălţi
July 31, 1941 - Berlin - Heydrich returns to Berlin and is awarded the EK I. Hermann Göring gives written authorization to Heydrich to prepare and submit a plan for a "total solution of the Jewish question" in territories under German control and to coordinate the participation of all involved government organisations.
September 23, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich arrives in Prague after some weeks serving with the Luftwaffe
September 27, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich is promoted to "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei" and appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
September 28, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich orders martial law in Prague
September 29(?), 1941 - Prague - Encounter between Heydrich and the President Hacha of Bohemia and Moravia
October 4, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich meets with Martin Luther and they agree to send a combined delegation from the Foreign Office and IVB4 to Belgrade to investigate
October 10, 1941 - Prague - Heydrich is the senior officer at a "Final Solution" meeting of the RSHA that discussed deporting 50,000 Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga. He establishes a camp-ghetto in Sudetenland in southern Germany (occupied Czechoslovakia) that would later be known as the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. He recommended the site to be used to house deported German, Austrian, and Czechoslovakian Jews. He places Adolf Eichmann and Rolf Günther in charge of establishing this camp-ghetto
November 29, 1941 - Prague - Himmler visits Prague. Welcomed by Heydrich and Karl Wolff
December 4, 1941 - Prague - Albert Speer meet Heydrich in Prague to ask him for 15,000 czech workers
January 12, 1942 - Berlin(?) - Göring's birthday with presence of Reinhard Heydrich
January 20, 1942 - Wannsee - Wannsee Conference. At the same time, Prague is taken out of Martial Law
April(?) 2(?), 1942 - Minsk - Heydrich flies to Minsk to deliver in person a stern reprimand to Wilhelm Kube, the Generalkommissar for White Russia
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| Reinhard Heydrich's funeral, Berlin |
May 27, 1942 - Prague-Liben - As Heydrich begins a trip to Berlin to meet Hitler, he is ambushed and wounded by two british-trained czech nationalists
June 2, 1942 - Prague-Liben - Himmler visits Heydrich in the hospital and both have a conversation. After Himmler's visit, Heydrich's state suddenly worsens because of an infection in the stomachal cavity and slips into a coma
June 4, 1942 - Prague-Liben - Reinhard Heydrich dies of sepsis, in consequence of his wounds, aged 38 =(END)
