- Born
- Died
- Height6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
- Alfred Rosenberg was born on January 12, 1893 in Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia]. He was married to Hedwig Kramer and Hilda Elfriede Leesmann. He died on October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany.
- SpousesHedwig Kramer(January 3, 1925 - October 16, 1946) (his death, 2 children)Hilda Elfriede Leesmann(March 10, 1915 - 1923) (divorced)
- ParentsWoldemar Wilhelm RosenbergElfriede Luise Caroline Siré
- His book, Myth of the 20th Century (published in 1930), sold 1.1 million copies in Germany between 1933 & 1945. This despite the fact that it was privately mocked & looked down on by both Joseph Goebbels & Adolf Hitler
- Wrote the book Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts [The Myth of the Twentieth Century]. The titular "myth" (in the special Sorelian sense) is "the myth of blood, which under the sign of the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. It is the awakening of the race-soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the race chaos.".
- Appointed Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories after the invasion of the Soviet Union
- His first child with Hedwig, a son, died in infancy
- His second child with Hedwig; a daughter, Irene, born 1930
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