Heinz Pannwitz

German Nazi Gestapo officer and later Schutzstaffel (SS) officer, director of investigation of assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

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Lived 1911–1975, aged 64Germany
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    1911–1975
    Aged 64
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Updated 2026-07-04

Heinz Michael Pannwitz was a German war criminal, Nazi Gestapo officer and later Schutzstaffel (SS) officer. Pannwitz was most notable for directing the investigation into the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich on 27 May 1942 in Prague. In the last two years of the war, Pannwitz ran the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle, a combined Abwehr and Gestapo counterintelligence operation against the Red Orchestra espionage network, in France and the Low Countries.

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