Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg
Rosenberg in 1939
Leader of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP
In office 1 April 1933 – 8 May 1945
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Reichsleiter
In office 2 June 1933 – 8 May 1945
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
Succeeded by	Position abolished
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.