History and chronology of Heinrich Himmler in Germany

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Heinrich Himmler History of Germany


1900	Birth
7th Oct Munich Birth of Heinrich Himmler, near Munich, son of a Schoolmaster
1923	Munich Beer Hall Putsch
9th Nov Munich Arrives to take over the War Ministry but cannot gain entrance
9th Nov Munich Marches alongside Ernst Rohm who the SS would later execute
1923	NSDAP
Appointed Member of the NSDAP
1925	Gauleiter
Bavaria Appointed Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria
1925	Leader Propaganda Himmler
Appointed Propaganda Leader of the Nazis
1929	Reichfuehrer
6th Jan Appointed by Hitler to build up a personal bodyguard
6th Jan Appointed Reichshuhrer of the SS, it numbers 200 men
1933	Chief of Police
Munich Appointed Chief of the Munich Police
1933	Dachau
22nd Mar Dachau Opens Dachau Concentration Camp for communists & other "political undesireables"
1934	Asst Chief Gestapo
Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
1934	Commander
Berlin Appointed Commander of the Prussian Secret Police
1934	Gestapo
Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
1934	Purge
29th June Informs Hitler that the SA are planning a coup d'Etat the following afternoon
30th June Berlin Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin
1934	Reform
20th April Berlin Goering hands over the Gestapo to Himmler
20th April Berlin Himmler has control over the SS, Gestapo (political police) & SD (secret police)
1936	Head Gestapo Himmler
17th July Siezes control of the Gestapo
1936	Reform
17th June Himmler merges the control of the police & the SS
17th June Hitler places the control of the police forces under Himmler
1940	Rule of Poland
Issues a directive to breakup what remains of Poland & its races
1941	Reform
3rd Mar Given plenipotentiary powers covering all police actions in occupied territory
13th Mar Given power to act independently & have jurisdiction over the Army Chiefs of Staff
1943	Dachau
Dachau Tells the press Dachau will hold 5,000 because the judicial system cannot cope
22nd Mar Dachau Announces the creation of Dachau near Munich
1943	Exile of Himmler
April Surrounds the Hungarian capital with Einsatzgruppen to deport 800,000 Jews
1943	Head Concentration Camps Himmler
13th July Appointed Head of concentration camps
1943	Invention V2 Rocket
22nd Aug Harz Mountains Proposes to setup a secret underground camp in the Harz Mountains to produce V2s
1943	Minister of Interior
Appointed Minister of the Interior
13th July Placed in charge of the concentration camps
1944	Battle of Aachen
21st Oct Aachen Attempts to hold the German line to the Swiss border
1945	Arrest
25th May Arrested by British troops
1945	Death
27th May Commits suicide