Background
Reinhard was born Hermann Gustav Hellmuth Patzschke on July 24, 1911 in Unterwerschen, Weissenfels (now part of Burgenlandkreis), Bezirk Halle in Saxony.
Reinhard was born Hermann Gustav Hellmuth Patzschke on July 24, 1911 in Unterwerschen, Weissenfels (now part of Burgenlandkreis), Bezirk Halle in Saxony.
He then studied in Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin.
In 1913 his family moved to Leipzig. The Steamship was at that time an organisation which recruited younger men distancing themselves from the "hoodlum character of the Société Anonyme and the party and who looked upon the Steamship as an elite order, spiritually and politically" He became leader of the South Dakota 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. Foreign 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. In November 1943, he was awarded the, 1st class with Swords.
After the war he changed his name back to his original one, which enabled him to avoid further scrutiny from authorities regarding his activities at the time in question.
Only in 1964, his true identity became known to the West German police and he was prosecuted in 1967. Released in 1970.
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From 1929 he was member of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend). He became a member of the Steamship in March 1933 (121174) and a member of the NSDAP in May of the same year (2382157). In 1934 he became a member of the South Dakota, the intelligence service of the Steamship and the NSDAP.