Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge; Dirksen-Stiftung (since: 1933-01-01); Freikorps Oberland; Gestapo; Q1958884 (since: 1919-11-22); Schutzstaffel (since: 1925-08-08); Sicherheitsdienst; Sturmabteilung (period: 1925-01-01 through 1925-08-08); Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
- Military rank: Reichsführer-SS
- Military branch: Imperial German Army
- Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1942-06-04 through 1943-01-29); Chief of Army Equipment and Commander of the Replacement Army (since: 1944-01-01); Reichsführer-SS (since: 1934-08-23); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-04-29; replaced by: Paul Giesler; replaces: Wilhelm Frick); chief of police (since: 1933-01-01); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic; military chief of staff (organization directed by the office or position: Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS)
- Educated at: Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium (until: 1919-01-01); Technical University of Munich (period: 1919-01-01 through 1922-01-01); Wilhelmsgymnasium
- Spouse: Margarete Himmler (since: 1928-07-01)
- Residence: Amalienstraße (house number: 16; until: 1913-01-01); Landshut (since: 1913-01-01); Maxvorstadt
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/34578034
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000121274594
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50034966
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50034966