Lina Heydrich

Lina Heydrich, née Lina Mathilde von Osten, in 2nd marriage married Lina Manninen ( born June 14, 1911 in Fehmarn; † August 14, 1985 ibid ) was the wife of the later Obergruppenführer, head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and Deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich.

Life

Lina von Osten was the daughter of a German aristocrat who worked as a village school teacher. She entered with 19 years in the NSDAP ( Mitgliedsnr. 1.20138 million ). She was a " convinced National Socialist and glowing anti-Semite ". Lina met Reinhard Heydrich in December 1930 know. After only two weeks were Heydrich and engaged from the east, after Heydrich had stopped her father for her. On December 26, 1931 - her husband was at that time already a National Socialist and worked for Himmler - the wedding according to the Protestant rite and singing the Horst Wessel Song was held in Großenbrode. From their marriage four children were born; two sons ( Klaus, * June 17, 1933, died on October 24, 1943 in a traffic accident, Heider, born December 23, 1934) and two daughters ( the trained opera singer Silke, born April 9, 1939 Marte, * July 23 1942). After her husband's death she lived with her children until 1945 at Schloss Virgin Breschan in Prague and later in Burg auf Fehmarn. 1954 granted to the federal government on a petition turn out a training aid and training place for her son. After you had initially denied a widow's pension, the Federal Republic of Germany, they processed from 1956 to 1959 successfully. She was then a pension until her death in 1985. Heydrich's widow now operating on the Baltic island of Fehmarn Pension " Imbria Parva " which often " her husband's former SS comrades at reunions " hosted the " exchanged " there " memories of " better times. From 1965 to 1969 she was married to the Finnish painter and theater director Mauno Manninen.