Reich Security Main Office

Reich Security Main Office
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
	Flag for the Chief of the SiPo and SD
RSHA overview
Formed	27 September 1939
Preceding agencies	Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo); Sicherheitsdienst (SD);
Dissolved	8 May 1945
Type	• Secret police; • Intelligence agency
Jurisdiction	German Reich; German-occupied Europe
Headquarters	Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, Berlin; 52°30′26″N 13°22′57″E
Employees	50,648 (February 1944 est.)
Minister responsible	Heinrich Himmler, (1939–1945);
RSHA executives	Reinhard Heydrich (1939–1942), Chief of SiPo and SD; Heinrich Himmler (1942–1943), Acting Chief of SiPo and SD; Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1943–1945), Chief of SiPo and SD;
Parent RSHA	Ministry of the Interior (nominally); Allgemeine SS
Child agencies	Gestapo; Sicherheitsdienst (SD); Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo); Kriminalpolizei (Kripo);

The Reich Security Main Office (German: Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and Reichsführer-SS, the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS). The organization's stated duty was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany.

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