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Heinz Michael Pannwitz was a German war criminal, Nazi Gestapo officer and later Schutzstaffel (SS) officer..
Heinz Pannwitz
German war criminal and soldier
Heinz Michael Pannwitz (née Heinz Paulsen; 28 July 1911, Berlin – 8 August 1975, Ludwigsburg) was a German war criminal, NaziGestapo officer and later Schutzstaffel (SS) officer.
Heydrich was head of the Nazi security police and governor of Bohemia-Moravia.
Pannwitz was most notable for directing the investigation into the assassination of ObergruppenführerReinhard 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.[1][2]
Life
As a child, Pannwitz belonged to the Christliche Pfadfinderschaft Deutschlandsscout association.
As a youth Pannwitz was a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany but left due to divisions in the church over their stance towards Hitler and the Nazis.[3]: 32 After completing his schooling, Pannwitz was employed as a fitter, but