Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 22 Political and party leadership 4 Military command 9 Security, intelligence and policing 8 Ideology and propaganda 1 Social movements and organizing 1

State, movement or organization

All 96 Soviet Union 67 People’s Republic of China 5 Hungary 3 Soviet Ukraine 2 Comintern 2 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 2 Benin 1 Germany state institutions 1 Nazi party and regime 1
All 15 affiliations by country

Benin

Benin 1

China

People’s Republic of China 5

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 2 East Germany 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Nazi party and regime 1

Hungary

Hungary 3 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

International organizations

Comintern 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empire 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Union 67

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

Ideology and propaganda · Nazi party and regime people 1

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Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg
Germany state institutions Fascists and Nazis Germany Baltic German 1893–1946 ✕ Executed by hanging

Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945

Born in 1893 in Reval (Tallinn), in the Governorate of Estonia of the Russian Empire, he studied architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute. In 1918 he left for Germany with the retreating German army and in January 1919 joined the German Workers’ Party, eight months before Hitler; in 1923 he became editor of the party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter. In 1930 he published his racial treatise The Myth of the Twentieth Century, and he fed Hitler’s belief in Jewish conspiracies by introducing him to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Appointed Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories on 17 July 1941, he had Hinrich Lohse installed as Reichskommissar for Ostland, though his own authority was severely limited. He saw the Baltic lands as German “Lebensraum”. Found guilty on all four counts at Nuremberg, he was hanged on 16 October 1946.

Career timeline
  • 1919Joined the German Workers’ Party
  • 1923Editor of the Völkischer Beobachter
  • 1930Published The Myth of the Twentieth Century
  • 1941–1945Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories
  • 1946Sentenced to death at Nuremberg and executed