page_title: Lina Heydrich
hierarchical_section_title: Lina Heydrich
context_page_description: Lina Mathilde Heydrich was the wife of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, a central figure in Nazi Germany.
  The daughter of a minor German aristocrat who worked as a schoolteacher, she met Reinhard Heydrich in December 1930. The two wed on 26 December 1931, and had four children. She later claimed she had known nothing about her husband's war crimes, committed while he was head of the Reich Main Security Office.
context_section_description: Lina Mathilde Heydrich (née von Osten, later Manninen; 14 June 1911 – 14 August 1985) was the wife of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, a central figure in Nazi Germany.
  The daughter of a minor German aristocrat who worked as a schoolteacher, she met Reinhard Heydrich in December 1930. The two wed on 26 December 1931, and had four children. She later claimed she had known nothing about her husband's war  crimes, committed while he was head of the Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA).
caption: In Prague, the day before the attack that led to his death, Reinhard Heydrich and wife Lina attend a concert of Richard Bruno Heydrich's music in the Waldstein Palace, 26 May 1942.
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