Amt Rosenberg (ARo, Rosenberg Office) was an official body for
cultural policy and
surveillance
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within the
Nazi party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
, headed by
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German 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 ...
. It was established in 1934 under the name of ''Dienststelle Rosenberg'' (''DRbg'', Rosenberg Department), with offices at Margarethenstraße 17 in Berlin, to the west of
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corne ...
.
Due to the long official name of Rosenberg's function, ''Beauftragter des Führers für die gesamte geistige und weltanschauliche Erziehung der NSDAP'', the short description ''Reichsüberwachungsamt'' "Reich surveillance office" was used alongside,
[Jan-Pieter Barbian: ''Literaturpolitik im »Dritten Reich«''. Institutionen, Kompetenzen, Betätigungsfelder, Nördlingen 1995, S. 276, .] also shortened simply to ''Überwachungsamt'' "surveillance office".
In post-World War II historiography, "Amt Rosenberg" is also used in a wider sense as a term for a number of official functions of Rosenberg which he held between 1928 and 1945.
[Reinhard Bollmus: ''Amt Rosenberg''. In: W. Benz (ed.): ''Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus''. 5., aktualisierte und erweiterte Aufl., dtv, Stuttgart 2007, 400-402, .]
These included the ''
Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'' (APA "NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs", including the ''
Nordische Gesellschaft
The ''Nordische Gesellschaft'' ("Nordic Society") was an association founded in 1921, with the objective of strengthening German-Nordic cultural and political cooperation. It was based in Lübeck, Germany. The association had both German and Scan ...
'' ("Nordic League")), ''
Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur
The ''Kampfbund'' ("Battle-league") was a league of nationalist fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s. It included Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (NSDAP) and its '' Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the Oberl ...
'' (KfdK "Militant League for German Culture"), ''NS-Kulturgemeinde'' ("NS-Cultural Community") (including the ''
Kraft durch Freude
NC Gemeinschaft (KdF; ) was a German state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany.Richard Grunberger, ''The 12-Year Reich'', p. 197, It was part of the German Labour Front (german: link=no, Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour org ...
'' ("Strength Through Joy") and ''Deutsche Bühne'' ("German Stage") theatres), ''
Hohe Schule der NSDAP'' ("Advanced School of the NSDAP") and ''
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg
The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (german: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg or ''ERR'') was a Nazi Party organization dedicated to appropriating cultural property during the Second World War. It was led by the chief ideologue of the Nazi Par ...
'' (ERR "Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce"), an organisation devoted to acquiring and stealing art objects across the occupied territories of the Reich.
Not included in the term as used by Bollmus (2007) is the ''
Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete
The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (german: Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (RMfdbO) or ''Ostministerium'', ) was created by Adolf Hitler on 17 July 1941 and headed by the Nazi theoretical expert, the Baltic ...
'' (RMfdbO "Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories"), because it was a government office, not a party office.
See also
*
Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe (, ''ancestral heritage'') operated as a think tank in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. Heinrich Himmler, the ''Reichsführer-SS'' from 1929 onwards, established it in July 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to the task of promot ...
*
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (; RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda (), controlled the content of the press, literature, visual arts, film, theater, music and radio in Nazi Germany.
The ministry ...
*
Nazi loot
Nazi plunder (german: Raubkunst) was the stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany. The looting of Polish and Jewish property was a k ...
*
Nazi propaganda
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation o ...
*
NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy
The NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy (German: ''Kolonialpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'', ''K.P.A.'' or ''KPA'') was a Nazi Party office formed in 1934. Its stated objective was to formulate plans for the re-taking of the former German colonies. The of ...
*
NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs
The NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs (german: Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, ''A.P.A.'' or ''APA'') was a Nazi Party organization. It was set up in April 1933 in the Hotel Adlon in Berlin immediately after the Nazi '' Machtergreifung'' ("Seizur ...
*
NSDAP Office of Military Policy The NSDAP Office of Military Policy (German: ''Wehrpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'', ''W.P.A.'' or ''WPA'', literally "NSDAP Office of Defense Policy" in English) was a Nazi Party organization. It was established on 8 September 1932 in a decree by Adolf ...
*
NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
The Office of Racial Policy was a department of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that was founded for "unifying and supervising all indoctrination and propaganda work in the field of population and racial politics". It began in 1933 as the Nazi Party Offi ...
References
* Reinhard Bollmus: ''Das Amt Rosenberg und seine Gegner''. Studien zum Machtkampf im nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftssystem. Stuttgart 1970
DNB(2nd ed., München / Oldenbourg 2006, .)
* Raimund Baumgärtner: ''Weltanschauungskampf im Dritten Reich''. Die Auseinandersetzung der Kirchen mit Alfred Rosenberg. Mainz 1977, .
* Michael H. Kater: ''Das Ahnenerbe der SS: 1933-1945''. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturpolitik des Dritten Reiches. Stuttgart 1974. (4th ed., München 2005, .)
* George Leaman: ''Deutsche Philosophen und das »Amt Rosenberg«''. In: Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.):'' »Die Besten Geister der Nation«''. Philosophie und Nationalsozialismus, Vienna 1994, 41-65, .
* Jan-Pieter Barbian: ''Literaturpolitik im »Dritten Reich«''. Institutionen, Kompetenzen, Betätigungsfelder, Nördlingen 1995, .
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