Richard was also noted to be a staunch nationalist and a strict man, who frequently instilled patriotic ideas in his three children. Richard had been a co-founder of the local Halle Conservatory of Music, where he and Elisabeth also lectured students, and with Reinhard being the oldest son, they expected him to follow in his father's footsteps and go into a career of performing and teaching music. The Heydrich family were firmly planted the local upper middle class, being quite well-off both in terms of financial means and social standing. Richard came from a Protestant family, but he had converted to Elisabeth's Catholic faith upon marrying her.

Heydrich was born in city of Halle, near Leipzig, to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Heydrich (née Krantz).

Adolf Hitler described him as 'the Man with the Iron Heart', while his enemies and victims referred to him as 'The Hangman', 'The Butcher of Prague' and 'The Blonde Beast', among other self-explanatory monikers. Many historians regard him as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite, the one most closely resembling the Nazi Aryan ideal of being tall, blonde haired, blue eyed, athletic, intelligent, power hungry, and utterly ruthless and merciless. Most infamously, he was one of the main architects of The Holocaust.

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (MaJune 4, 1942) was one of the key figures of Nazi Germany.

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