English Translation

Reinhard Heydrich was born on 7 March 1904 in Halle an der Saale. He attended elementary school and reform gymnasium. Already in his school years, which fell after 1918 in the time of the great break-down of our people, the young student at the age of 16 was active in his ardent love for Germany as a reporter in the Freikorps "Marker" and as a volunteer in the Free Corps "Halle" in the then so red Central Germany. In 1922, in an era that rejected all soldiery, he entered the Reichsmarine as an enthusiastic officer candidate. In 1926, he became lieutenant, in 1928, lieutenant at sea. As a radio and news officer, he worked in the various branches of service and widened his view by travelling and traveling abroad. In 1931, he retired from the Imperial Navy. Through one of his friends, the then SS-Oberführer von Eberstein, I found him and brought him into the protective squadron in July of this year. Heydrich, a senior lieutenant, joined the small Hamburg season as a simple SS-man and, together with all the good, mostly unemployed boys who were the first faithful beginning there, served in the hall fight and in propaganda in the abundant red quarters of the city. Soon afterward I brought him to Munich and transferred his new tasks to him in the still rather small Reichsführung. With his innate fidelity and tenacity he stood in the politically so difficult months of autumn 1932, which made some demands, his husband. I immediately handed him the so-called political department of the presidium. In a very short time this department was reorganized and in a few weeks it was the Bavarian 82