Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904-4 June 1942) is a German Nazi SS Officer with the rank of SS-General (rank of Obergruppenfuhrer und General) and Director of the SD and Gestapo in the SS from 1933-1942 . Heydrich is the main the architect of the Holocaust from 1941-1942 as a high ranking Nazi SS Officer from 1933-1942 . Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is born in 1904 on 7 March in Halle (Saale), Prussia ,Germany . In 1922 he joined Germany ‘s Reichswehr as a navy sailor in the Reichswehr’s German Military Navy branch (Reichsmarine). He then got fired from the German Military in 1931 and then joined the Nazi Party the same year and became a SS paramilitary Officer he then later created the SD as a SS-Sturmbannfuhrer (Major) Officer . In 1932 Heydrich got promoted to SS-Oberfuhrer (Colonel or Brigadier) and then in 1933 he got promoted to SS-Brigadefuhrer (Major-General) and finally SS-Gruppenfuhrer und Obergruppenfuhrer (General) after the Nazis took over Germany . He was responsible for the Holocaust during World War II in Europe from 1941 to his assassination in 1942 in the city of Prague in Czechoslovakia under German occupation by Nazi Germany since 1938 but Heydrichs assassination and death in May/June 1942 led to more murders of innocent European Jewish People deported to the Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz in Poland .
| SS-Officer Rank | German Army officer rank equivalent | Year |
|---|---|---|
| SS-Sturmbannfuhrer | Major | 1931-1932 |
| SS-Oberfuhrer | Colonel or Brigadier | 1932-1933 |
| SS-Brigadefuhrer | Major-General | 1933-1934 |
| SS-Gruppenfuhrer Und Obergruppenfuhrer | General | 1934-1942 |