- 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
- 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
- One of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials conducted after WW II. Charged with crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.
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