Arno Shikedanz Party and administrative figure. Date of Birth: 27.12.1892 Country: Germany

Biography of Arno Schickedanz

Arno Schickedanz (27.12.1892, Riga - 15.4.1945) was a political and administrative figure. He studied at the University of Riga and was a member of the student union, where he became close with A. Rosenberg. After the collapse of the Russian Empire, he moved to Germany. He collaborated with the society "Vozrozhdenie" and the newspaper "Folkish Beobachter". He actively participated in party work and was considered an expert on the "Russian question" from the very beginning, working alongside M. von Scheybner-Richter. In 1933, Rosenberg appointed Schickedanz as the chief of staff of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP, which he led. He was one of Rosenberg's closest associates and enjoyed his patronage, being regarded as one of the leading experts on the "Russian question" in Germany. He became a member of the Reichstag from Hamburg in 1936. He authored the "theoretical" work "Zionism". He held the rank of Hauptamtleiter in Rosenberg's department. After the establishment of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941, Schickedanz was appointed as the Imperial Commissioner for the Caucasus (with headquarters in Tbilisi). The Imperial Commissariat was supposed to be divided into the General Commissariats of "Kuban", "Stavropol", "Georgia", "Azerbaijan", and "Gorsk General Commissariat", as well as the Main Commissariats of "Kalmykia" and "Armenia". However, Schickedanz was unable to assume the position due to the fact that the occupied areas of the commissariat fell within the responsibility zone of the rear areas of army groups and were subject to the field commanders. After the Soviet troops entered Germany, he, along with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, committed suicide.