Biographical Summary:

• Graduated law school 1926.
• Joined the Austrian Nazi Party 1932.
• Operated secretly for the unification of Germany with Austria.
• Arrested by Austrian authorities in 1934 and served six month imprisonment for conspiracy to overthrow Austrian government.
• Becomes head of the underground Austrian SS in 1935.
• 1938-1943 high ranking SS and Police official in Austria.
• January 30. 1943 appointed head of the RSHA - the headquarters of the SD and Gestapo - to replace Reinhardt Heydrich who was assassinated in June 1942.
• Oversees the culmination of the Final Solution which was planned and undertaken by his predecessor Heydrich since October of 1941.
• Appointed as a "non-threatening" candidate to his superior, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler.
• Scores second lowest IQ among the defendants: 113.