Führer's Representative for the Supervision of Intellectual and Ideological Education of the NSDAP ("Rosenberg Office")
In office 27 January 1934 – 8 May 1945
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories
In office 17 July 1941 – 8 May 1945
Führer
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Position established
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Personal details
Born
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg
12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 Reval, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (present-day Tallinn, Estonia)
Died
16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 53) Nuremberg Prison, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Nationality
Baltic German
Political party
Nazi Party
Spouses
Hilda Leesmann
(m. 1915; div. 1923)
Hedwig Kramer
(m. 1925)
Children
2
Education
Engineering
Alma mater
Riga Polytechnical Institute Moscow Highest Technical School
Profession
Architect, politician, writer
Known for
Authoring The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Cabinet
Hitler Cabinet
Signature
Criminal conviction
Criminal status
Executed
Conviction(s)
Conspiracy to commit crimes against peace Crimes of aggression War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial
Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty
Death
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German[1] Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He was the head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs during the entire rule of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), and led Amt Rosenberg ("Rosenberg's bureau"), an official Nazi body for cultural policy and surveillance, between 1934 and 1945. During World War II, Rosenberg was the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (1941–1945). After the war, he was convicted of crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on 16 October 1946.
The author of a seminal work of Nazi ideology, The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), Rosenberg is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to what was considered "degenerate" modern art. He is known for his opposition to Christianity,[2][3] having played an important role in the development of German nationalist Positive Christianity.
^Sources which refer to Rosenberg as a "Baltic German" or equivalent include:
Bullock, Alan (1964) Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper p.79
Evans, Richard J. (2003) The Coming of the Third Reich New York: Penguin. p.178 ISBN 0-14-303469-3
Fest, Joachim C. (1974) Hitler Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York:Vintage. p.116
Kershaw, Ian (1999) Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris New York: Norton. p.158 ISBN 0-393-04671-0
Shirer, William L. (1960) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany New York: Simon & Schuster. p.48
Weber, Thomas (2017) Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi New York: Basic Books. p.220 ISBN 978-0-465-03268-6
^Evans, Richard J. (2005) The Third Reich in Power New York: Penguin Books. p.238-40. ISBN 0-14-303790-0
^Hexham, Irving (2007). "Inventing 'Paganists': a Close Reading of Richard Steigmann-Gall's the Holy Reich". Journal of Contemporary History. 42 (1). SAGE Publications: 59–78. doi:10.1177/0022009407071632. S2CID 159571996.
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hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, AlfredRosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart...
1937 papal encyclical Mit brennender Sorge. Official Nazi ideologist AlfredRosenberg played an important role in the development of "positive Christianity"...
July 1941 he became Staatssekretär (State Secretary) and Deputy to AlfredRosenberg in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Meyer was...
Second World War. It was led by the chief ideologue of the Nazi Party, AlfredRosenberg, from within the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs. Between 1940 and...
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the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories headed by AlfredRosenberg. Between September 1941 and August 1944, the Reichskommissariat was...
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Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories led by Nazi ideologist AlfredRosenberg, but actually controlled by the Nazi official Hinrich Lohse, its appointed...
included Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann, the propagandist AlfredRosenberg, and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl...
Party and edited by Adolf Hitler (1930 – October 1933) and then, by AlfredRosenberg (May 1935 – 1944). Its first edition was published in 1930. It served...
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In spite of all declarations from Rosenberg and the military, I don't trust the Armenians either." AlfredRosenberg declared that the Armenians were Aryans...
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. The future top Nazi functionaries AlfredRosenberg and Arno Schickedanz served as officers within Aufbau According to...
the auditorium. Hitler, surrounded by his associates Hermann Göring, AlfredRosenberg, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Ulrich Graf, Johann Aigner, Adolf...
the peoples in the East. However, Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels and AlfredRosenberg were in favor of collaboration against Bolshevism and offering some...
the Baltic region. The colonial department in Berlin under Minister AlfredRosenberg (born in Tallinn in 1893) looked on Estonians favorably as Finno-Ugrics...
by the Nazi theoretical expert, the Baltic German AlfredRosenberg. Alfred Meyer served as Rosenberg's deputy. The German government formed the ministry...
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after the Nazi Machtergreifung ("Seizure of power"). It was led by AlfredRosenberg. It was one of the central authorities for the foreign policy of Nazi...
German") —with financial support from the Thule Society—working with AlfredRosenberg, whom he called his "co-warrior against Jerusalem", and Gottfried Feder...
disappeared from Germany during the Nazi era. Some leading Nazis such as AlfredRosenberg and Martin Bormann were vehemently anti-Christian, and sought to de-Christianize...
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