Adolf Eichmann is the son of Adolf Karl Eichmann and Marie Nee Schefferling. Adolf Eichmann was born in a town called Solingen, Germany in March 19, 1906. His parents were also protestants. When Adolf Eichmann was eight years old him and his parents moved to Linz, Austria. When Adolf was in school he was medicre, if not poor, student. His father Adolf Karl Eichmann was the commercial manager of the Linz Electric Works, and the family goes to church every Sunday. 

     When his mother died he was ten years old, and his dad soon remarried. He had one sister and five brothers. Years later, Adolf told the Dutch interviewer, Wilhelm Sassen, which whom he was collabrating a book of his experience, his friend, Harry Sellar, which was Jewish.

     After dropping out of high school, he became a travel salesman with the Socony Vacuum Company.  Later, he took a job with an AmericanOil Company, and this gave him an opportunity to travel.  In 1932, Eichmann and his father were invited to a meeting of the Nazi Party by a family friend, Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Eichmann was entranced by the percuting nationalistic fervor of those who attended, and he signed up. A year later, he was laid off from his oil company job and sought help from Kaltenbrunner. Kaltenbrunner arranged for Eichmann to be accepted into the S.S. brigade comprised of Austrians. Soon thereafter, Eichmann was invited to join the S.D., the S.S.'s Security Service and given rank of sergent. In 1935 Adolf was assigned to the Jewish Departmant of the S.D. and worked his way to the top. Unlike virtually all the Nazi bureaucrates, who were related among departmant, Eichmann kept the same post throughout the war.

      He taught himself Hebreew and Yiddish. He studied the Jews, Gathering information about their leaders, Synogogues, Business, culture. Eichmann soon married Vera Liebe, a native of Bohemia in 1936 and lived with her Prague. He became the father of four children, all boys.

       He was given his military comission in 1937, Beggining with the rank of second Lieutenant.

       Austria was annexed by Germany on March 13 1938. Riehard Heydrich, chief of the S.D., was given the responsibility of clearing Germany and its allies of Jews. Adolf arrived in Vienna on March 17,and, as in Jewishs Affairs who had even been to Palestine, soon given the job of expelling the Jewish community. A special authority was set under Heydrich called the Central Office for Jewish Emigration, with Eichmann in charge. His strategy was to reopen Jewish institution, but only for the purpose of assisting him in deportations. He arranged for the Jewish Leaers in concentration camp to be returned to Vienna to staff these offices to assist him in deportations. He set upon assembly line in which Jews would go in and at the other end, they were stripped of there property, bank accounts, jobs, apartments,and given a passport valid for two weeks. If they did find a foreign visa, they would be sent to Dachau, a prison camp near Munich for political opponents of the Nazi regime.
 By the time war broke out in September 1939, Eichmann was running the Central Office for Jewish Emigration with three branch offices. He was promoted almost annually, eventually achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel of the S.S. by 1941.
 
 

                                                                                                  Written by:
                                                                                                  Dustin Roduner
 

Resorces: www.pbs.org/eichmann/study1.htm,
www.zelda.thomson.com/ routledg/who/germany/eichmann.html,
www.remember.org/eichmann/study.htm