Biographie

4 octobre 1903 · Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

16 octobre 1946 · Nuremberg, Allemagne (execution by hanging)

6′ 4½″ (1,94 m)

High-pitched voice that clashed with his towering height and overall intimidating appearance

Deep scars on his face from dueling in his student days, although some sources attribute them to an automobile accident

During World War II he served as an SS-Obergruppenfuhrer (General). In 1942 he became the successor to Reinhard Heydrich in the office of Commander, Reich Central Security Office, after Heydrich's assassination by Czech guerrillas. As such, he continued the implementation of the "Final Solution"--the official Nazi plan of extermination of European Jewry--which Heydrich had begun.

Was one of the Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial conducted after World War II. Charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.