Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a well-known German officer who during World War II held the post of second in command of the SS, being considered like the right arm of Heinrich Himmler, later to lead the Gestapo and to direct from the year of 1939 the Central Office of Security of the Reich.
Heydrich was born in Halle del Saale on March 7, 1904, quickly joining the German army, also considered by historians as one of the most controversial and obscure figures in the Nazi forces, since his personality and actions often generated that even his superior looked pale next to this intelligent military man.
For own Adolf hitler This soldier was considered a very gifted and dangerous man, being called by him as “The man with the heart of iron”, and it is that in many statements of people who knew him, it is said that this soldier only with his presence already generated a degree of intimidation in those present that even Hitler himself delighted.
In 1922 he was accepted into the Navy of the Weimar Republic, which, although it was reserved for the sons of the aristocracy, Haeydrich’s abilities led him to obtain a precious place within the ranks, entering under the command of Admiral Wilhem Canaris on the Berlin cruiser.
In 1931 he was expelled from the Navy for an incident with a woman, while he was engaged to his future wife, with whom he had four and who was a fervent Nazi supporter, who could have been a strong influence for this military to enter the Nazi party on June 1, 1931 in Hamburg.
When he left the Navy, the future looked uncertain, which of course led him to have financial problems, but at that moment he knew that there were some positions within an intelligence force led by Himmler, where he was immediately accepted, who also he immediately saw the abilities of the Heydrich, so he was always within the highest considerations.
The biggest problem in his career he had with the mandatory investigations to determine if he had a Jewish origin, which if he was, but he managed to alter all the information and deny his Jewish grandmother, helped by his superiors and being kept the information by Wilhelm Canaris, not out of kindness but as a defensive weapon.
In 1936 he was appointed as head of the Gestapo Reich Security Police, he himself said that he was in charge of the German Reich garbage dump, especially when in 1939 by order of Himmler he was in charge of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, where the Security Police Offices, the Criminal Investigation Police and the NSDAP Security Office.
On May 27, 1942 after an excellent military career, he suffers a bomb attack while driving a convertible car, although he manages to get out of the car and shoot his attackers, which leaves him seriously injured, when he is taken to hospital in Prague, he He refuses to be treated by German doctors, which leads him to suffer from septicemia, a disease that causes his death eight days later.