Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg January 1893160October 1946 was a Baltic German theorist and an influential ideologue of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart he 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 onJanuary 1893 in Reval in the Russian Empire to a family of Baltic Germans his father, Waldemar Wilhelm Rosenberg, was a wealthy merchant from Latvia, his mother, Elfriede , was from Estonia. According to the newest research, based on birth and death records from Estonian and Latvian parishes, Rosenbergs father Wilhelm was halfEstonian and halfLatvian in origin, and his mother Elfriede was German with an initially French background.

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