Heinrich Müller

German SS police official SS-General and head of the Gestapo from 1939-1945 (1900–1945)

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Lived 1900–1945, aged 45Germany

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1900–1945
Aged 45

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Updated 2026-05-29

Gestapo chief during WWII and architect of Holocaust logistics, Müller orchestrated the machinery of genocide from Berlin. His attendance at the 1942 Wannsee Conference sealed the operational blueprint for industrial-scale murder across occupied Europe.

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Heinrich Müller was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany. Müller was central in the planning and execution of the Holocaust and attended the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe—otherwise known as the "Final Solution to the Jewish question". He was referenced as "Gestapo Müller" to distinguish him from another SS general named Heinrich Müller.

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