13 Facts About Heinz Heydrich

Heinz Siegfried Heydrich was the son of Richard Bruno Heydrich and the younger brother of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich.

Heinz Siegfried Heydrich was born on 29 September 1905, in Halle an der Saale to composer Richard Bruno Heydrich, a Protestant, and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Catholic.

Heinz Heydrich's father was Eugen Krantz, director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory.

The Heinz Heydrich household was very strict and the children were frequently disciplined.

Heinz Heydrich was an Obersturmfuhrer, journalist, and publisher of the soldiers' newspaper, Die Panzerfaust.

Heinz Heydrich was at first a fervent admirer of Hitler.

Heinz Heydrich had shut himself away in his room with the papers.

Heinz Heydrich, on leave from the front, could not be engaged in conversation, his wife remembered; he seemed to be elsewhere mentally, and like stone.

The files in the package were probably Reinhard Heydrich's personal files, from which Heinz understood for the first time in all its enormity the systematic extermination of the Jews, the so-called Final Solution.

Thereafter, Heinz Heydrich helped at least two Jews escape by forging identity documents and printing them on Die Panzerfaust presses.

When in November 1944 an economic commission headed by a State Attorney investigated the editorial staff of Die Panzerfaust, Heinz Heydrich thought he had been discovered and shot himself in order to protect his family from the Gestapo.

Heinz Heydrich is buried in the war cemetery of Riesenburg, according to the Deutsche Dienststelle.

Heinz Heydrich's oldest, Peter Thomas Heydrich, was a well-known German cabaret singer, and wrote a book about his childhood, father, and uncle.