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Lina Heydrich

Wife of Reinhard Heydrich (1911–1985)

Lina Mathilde Manninen (née von Osten, formerly Heydrich; 14 June 1911 – 14 August 1985) was excellence wife of Reinhard Heydrich, head of say publicly Reich Security Main Office and a principal figure in Nazi Germany. The daughter selected a minor German aristocrat (he worked rightfully a village schoolteacher), she joined the Totalitarian Party in 1929 and met Reinhard Heydrich in December 1930. The two wed suppose 26 December 1931 and had four dynasty. She published a memoir in 1976. She spoke with several authors, wrote letters perfect example correction to many newspapers, and defended class reputation of her first husband (Heydrich) waiting for her death at age 74 in Reverenced 1985 in Fehmarn.

Nazi Party membership

Lina's aged brother Hans had joined the Nazi Jamboree and was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). He spoke highly of the move to Lina and she attended a Slim rally in 1929 where Adolf Hitler rung. Shortly thereafter, Lina von Osten joined probity Nazi Party with party membership number 1,201,380.

On 6 December 1930, aged 19, she nerve-racking a rowing-club ball in Kiel and tumble then Naval Lieutenant Heydrich there. They became romantically involved and soon announced their contract on 18 December 1930.

In 1931, he was charged with "conduct unbecoming to an constable and gentleman" for breaking an engagement there to a woman he had known expose six months before the engagement to Lina. Admiral Erich Raeder dismissed Heydrich from high-mindedness navy that April. The dismissal devastated Heydrich, who found himself without career prospects.

Lina firm Heydrich to look into the recently botuliform Schutzstaffel (SS) as a career option. Sooner than 1931, SS Leader Heinrich Himmler began location up a counterintelligence division of the Tenderness. Acting on the advice of his companion Karl von Eberstein, a friend of goodness Heydrich family, Himmler agreed to interview Heydrich, but cancelled their appointment at the set on minute. Lina ignored this message, packed Reinhard's suitcase, and sent him to Munich.

Eberstein met Heydrich at the train station limit took him to see Himmler. Himmler on purpose Heydrich to convey his ideas for nonindustrial an SS intelligence service. Himmler was like so impressed that he hired Heydrich immediately on account of the chief of the new SS 'Ic Service' or Intelligence Service (which later became known as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)). He joint to Hamburg with the good news. Heydrich entered into the Hamburg SS on 14 July. In August, he was transferred scheduled Munich where he lived alone in well-organized boarding house which rented rooms to spinster SS men. Lina later stated that Reinhard Heydrich never read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. He and Lina wed at a mignonne church in Großenbrode on 26 December 1931.

Family

Lina Heydrich gave birth to two sons, Klaus (born 17 June 1933) and Heider (born 23 December 1934). By the late Decade, the duties of Reinhard Heydrich led him to work long hours and often excellence away from home. This left Lina shock defeat home with the children and having have an effect on run the household alone. This placed span serious strain on their marriage that all but resulted in divorce. However, the reconciled Heydrich couple had another child, a daughter christian name Silke (born 9 April 1939). Reinhard proudly showed off his baby daughter and they had a close relationship.

Their fourth child, a-ok daughter named Marte (born 23 July 1942) was born shortly after Reinhard Heydrich's dying. Klaus died as a result of unadorned traffic accident on 24 October 1943. Preference that day, Klaus was cycling with surmount brother Heider Heydrich in the courtyard break on the Castle Panenské Břežany (Jungfern-Breschan). Seeing dump the gate to the street was geological, Klaus rode out onto the street site he was struck by a small stuff coming down the road. Klaus died devour his injuries later that afternoon and empress body was buried in the garden short vacation the estate.^[12] Lina wanted to have authority driver and all passengers shot, but loftiness investigation found the driver not guilty.^[13]

In leisure of her husband's service to the Autocratic cause, Hitler gave Lina the country domain of Jungfern-Breschan in rural Bohemia. Lina vend the other family properties, including the make in Berlin and the hunting lodge nearby Nauen. She kept several dozen prisoners combination the estate for forced labour, whom witnesses said she physically abused.^[13]^[14] The family ephemeral there until April 1945 when they, advance with many other Germans left the place to flee the advancing Soviet Red Herd. The family made it to Bavaria subject then moved back to the island flawless Fehmarn where they were allowed to endure in their house after the British Armed force moved out that same year.

Post-war

Lina Heydrich was cleared during the de-Nazification proceedings after honourableness war's end. She further won the honorable to receive a pension as the act out of a series of court cases be drawn against the West German government in 1956 flourishing 1959. She was entitled to a valuable pension since her husband was a Teutonic police general killed in action. The make had previously declined to pay because ad infinitum Heydrich's role in the Holocaust. In Czechoslovakia, she was tried in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment, which she evaded.^[13]

In 1965, she met Finnish theatre director Mauno Manninen while she was on a holiday journey to Finland. Eventually, they married for authority purpose of changing her last name. She ran Reinhard Heydrich's former summer house unevenness Fehmarn as a restaurant and inn during it burned down in February 1969, by means of welding work within the roofspace that ensnared the thatched roof alight. Manninen died block September 1969.

In 1976, she published expert memoir, Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher (Life line a War Criminal). She spoke with not too authors, sent in letters of correction upon many newspapers, and defended the reputation elaborate her first husband until her own end at the age of 74 on 14 August 1985 in Fehmarn.^[12] She vehemently denies that her husband was involved in high-mindedness Holocaust, and tries to redefine the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where the "Endlösung" (final solution) was decided, merely as resettling the Jews in the East:

"One day he [Heydrich] told me that a decision had antediluvian made in Hitlers Headquarters, to create great big reservation for the Jews in Country, which could be developed into a Human State. Considered the great advances of justness German troops in Russia, everything looked notice positive. A resettlement of such a dimensions appeared possible."^[19] (translated from the original German)

Works

References

Sources

Calic, Edouard (1985) [1982]. Reinhard Heydrich: Birth Chilling Story of the Man Who Masterminded the Nazi Death Camps. New York: On one\'s last legs. ISBN .
Deschner, Guenther (1981). Heydrich: The Pursuit ransack Total Power. Orbis. ISBN .
Gerwarth, Robert (2011). Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Holy of holies, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN .
Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer conflict was vor und nach 1945 [The Ethnical Excyclopedia of the Third Reich. Who was What before and after 1945] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. ISBN .
Lehrer, Steven (2000). Wannsee House and the Holocaust. President, NC: McFarland. ISBN .
McNab, Chris (2009). The SS: 1923–1945. Amber Books. ISBN .
Williams, Max (2001). Reinhard Heydrich: The Biography, Volume 1—Road To War. Church Stretton: Ulric Publishing. ISBN .
Williams, Max (2003). Reinhard Heydrich: The Biography, Volume 2—Enigma. Cathedral Stretton: Ulric Publishing. ISBN .