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.
