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In September 1939, when the Gestapo and other police organizations were consolidated under Heydrich into the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Müller was made chief of the RSHA "Amt IV" (Office or Dept. 4): Gestapo. [33] [34] To distinguish him from another SS general named Heinrich Müller, he became known as "Gestapo Müller". [35] [36]
Heinrich Müller (Gestapo) (1900–1945?), head of the Nazi Gestapo, 1939–1945 Heinrich Müller (physiologist) (1820–1864), anatomist and physiologist Heinrich Müller (theologian) (1631–1675), Lutheran theologian
Müller was head of the Gestapo office (Geheimstaatspolizei) in Oldenburg from 1935 until World War II. [3]During the invasion of Poland, he served as one of four captains of the mobile killing squads (Einsatzkommandos) within Einsatzgruppe I, led by SS-Brigadeführer Bruno Streckenbach.
The Geheime Staatspolizei (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈhaɪmə ˈʃtaːtspoliˌtsaɪ] ⓘ; transl. "Secret State Police"), abbreviated Gestapo (German: [ɡəˈstaːpo] ⓘ), [3] was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The SiPo was composed of two sub-departments, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo; "Secret State Police") and the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; "Criminal Police"). [3] In correspondence, the RSHA was often abbreviated to RSi-H [ 4 ] to avoid confusion with the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA; "SS Race and Settlement Office").
Adolf Eichmann, 1942. Reich Security Head Office Referat IV B4, known as RSHA IV B4 (German: Eichmannreferat [] IV D4 until March 1941, or Judenreferat), was a sub-department of Germany's Reich Security Head Office [a] (Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA) and the Gestapo during the Holocaust. [1]
Also a Gestapo officer and head of security for Nazi Germany's V-weapons program. Paul Blobel – SS commander primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev . Werner von Blomberg – Generalfeldmarschall , Defense Minister 1933–1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935–1938.
After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.