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Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg
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Alfred Rosenberg in January 1941, photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann
Leader of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP
In office
1933–1945
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by None
Commissar for Supervision of Intellectual and Ideological Education of the NSDAP (aka Rosenberg office)
In office
1934–1945
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by None
Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories
In office
1941–1945
President Adolf Hitler (Führer)
Chancellor Adolf Hitler (Führer)
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by None
Reichsleiter
In office
2 June 1933 – 8 May 1945
Leader Adolf Hitler
Personal details
Born Alfred Ernst Rosenberg
(1893-01-12)12 January 1893
Reval, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire
Died 16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 53)
Nuremberg, Germany
Cause of death Hanging
Nationality German
Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Spouse(s) Hilda Leesmann (m. 1915; div. 1923)
Hedwig Kramer (m. 1925)
Children 2
Alma mater Riga Polytechnical Institute
Moscow Highest Technical School
Profession Architect, politician, writer
Cabinet Hitler
Religion Neo-pagan
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Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (German: [ˈʀoːzənbɛɐ̯k]; 12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German theorist and an influential ideologue of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered one of the main authors of key National Socialist ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to degenerate modern art. He is known for his rejection of and hatred for Christianity, having played an important role in the development of German Nationalist Positive Christianity. At Nuremberg he was sentenced to death and executed by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Rosenberg was born on 12 January 1893 in Reval in the Russian Empire (today known as Tallinn, the capital of modern Estonia) to a family of Baltic Germans: his father, Waldemar Wilhelm Rosenberg, was a wealthy merchant from Latvia, his mother, Elfriede (née Siré), was from Estonia. (Tallinn archivist J. Rajandi claimed in the 1930s that Rosenberg's family had Estonian origins.) According to the newest research, based on birth and death records from Estonian and Latvian parishes, Rosenberg's father Wilhelm was half-Estonian and half-Latvian in origin, and his mother Elfriede was German with an initially French background. In 1936, Jewish Lithuanian journalist Franz Szell accused Rosenberg of having "no drop of German blood" flowing in his veins, and that among his ancestors were only "Latvians, Jews, Mongols, and French." These claims were repeated in the 15 September 1937 issue of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.


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