Nazi Official
He became a member of the SS in March 1933 (121174) and a member of the NSDAP in May of the same year (2.382.157). The SS was at that time an organisation which recruited younger men distancing themselves from the "hoodlum character of the SA and the party and who looked upon the SS as an elite order, spiritually and politically"
In 1934 he became a member of the SD, the intelligence service of the SS and the NSDAP. He became leader of the SD Hauptamt, Partei und Staat in 1938. Appointed "Regierungsassesor" in the same year. On 25 April 1939 he changed his last name to Reinhard. During the war he was stationed in Prague, then later on, in August 1941, he became leader of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in the Netherlands. For approximately three months during 1941/42 he was in the Einsatzgruppe C, whereupon he went to Norway in order to become head of the Gestapo, Abteilung IV, from 28 January 1942, working under the leader of the Sicherheitspolizei in Norway, Heinrich Fehlis. He remained in this position until 1 February 1945.
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