Nazi Official and Deputy Reichsführer-SS. He was the chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which combined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Intelligence Service) with the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo; "Security Police"), as a singular umbrella organization. The SiPo was composed of two sub-departments, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo; "Secret State Police") and the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; "Criminal Police"). He was second in command under Heinrich Himmler, and was later appointed the Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He also served as president of the fledgling International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, now known as Interpol) and chaired the now infamous January 1942 "Wannsee Conference," which formalized plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish question" (the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe). He was born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, to well-to-do parents who were highly musically inclined. His father was an accomplished composer and opera singer, and his mother was the daughter of the prominent pianist and music educator, Eugen Krantz. His family lost everything after World War I, so Reinhard joined the Navy for financial security, but was later discharged for "conduct unbecoming of an officer" after he was found guilty of breach of contract to marry. The next day, he joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and six weeks later, he joined the SS. He is credited as the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst, an intelligence organization charged with seeking out and eliminating all resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and executions. On May 27, 1942, his staff car was attacked by Free Czech agents (serving in the British Army) in Prague. He suffered serious wounds and a ruptured spleen. He underwent emergency surgery and appeared to be recuperating when, on June 3rd, he slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness. He died the next day of sepsis (blood poisoning). His attack brought down massive reprisals and executions by the Nazis. He was survived by his wife and four children. The youngest child, a daughter, was born shortly after his death. Heydrich was buried with military honors in the Invaliden Cemetery in Berlin.