German Nazi leader and Hitler's secretary (1900–1945)
Reichsleiter
Martin Bormann
Bormann as Reichsleiter, 1934. A scar on his forehead[1] has been edited out of this photograph.
Party Minister of the Nazi Party
In office 30 April 1945 – 2 May 1945
Preceded by
Adolf Hitler (as Führer)
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Personal Secretary to the Führer
In office 12 April 1943 – 30 April 1945
Führer
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Himself (as Private Secretary to the Führer)
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Chief of the Party Chancellery
In office 12 May 1941 – 2 May 1945
Preceded by
Rudolf Hess (as Deputy Führer)
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Chief of Staff of the Deputy Führer
In office 1 July 1933 – 12 May 1941
Deputy Führer
Rudolf Hess
Additional positions
January–August 1943
Member of the "Committee of Three"
1941–1945
Reichsminister without portfolio
1933–1945
Member of the Greater German Reichstag
1933–1945
Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party
1933–1945
Manager of the Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry
Personal details
Born
Martin Ludwig Bormann
(1900-06-17)17 June 1900 Wegeleben, Prussia, German Empire
Died
2 May 1945(1945-05-02) (aged 44) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Suicide by hydrogen cyanide
Political party
Nazi Party
Spouse
Gerda Buch
(m. 1929)
Children
10, including Martin Adolf Bormann
Relatives
Walter Buch (father-in-law) Albert Bormann (brother)
Cabinet
Hitler cabinet
Signature
Nickname
Brown Eminence
Military service
Branch/service
Imperial German Army Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1918–1919 1927–1945
Rank
SS-Obergruppenführer
Unit
55th Field Artillery Regiment
Service number
278,267 (SS)
Criminal conviction
Criminal status
Deceased before arraignment
Conviction(s)
Conspiracy to commit crimes against peace Crimes of aggression War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial
Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty
Death-in-Absentia
Martin Ludwig Bormann[2] (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler and a war criminal. After the war, he was convicted and sentenced to death-in-absentia for crimes against humanity. Bormann gained immense power by using his position as Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. He used his position to create an extensive bureaucracy and involve himself as much as possible in the decision making.
Bormann joined a paramilitary Freikorps organisation in 1922 while working as manager of a large estate. He served nearly a year in prison as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf Höss (later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp) in the murder of Walther Kadow. Bormann joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1937. He initially worked in the party's insurance service, and transferred in July 1933 to the office of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, where he served as chief of staff.
Bormann gained acceptance into Hitler's inner circle and accompanied him everywhere, providing briefings and summaries of events and requests. He was appointed as Hitler's personal secretary on 12 April 1943.[3] After Hess's solo flight to Britain on 10 May 1941 to seek peace negotiations with the British government, Bormann assumed Hess's former duties, with the title of Head of the Parteikanzlei (Party Chancellery). He had final approval over civil service appointments, reviewed and approved legislation, and by 1943 had de facto control over all domestic matters. Bormann was one of the leading proponents of the ongoing persecution of the Christian churches and favoured harsh treatment of Jews and Slavs in the areas conquered by Germany during World War II.
Bormann returned with Hitler to the Führerbunker in Berlin on 16 January 1945 as the Red Army approached the city. After Hitler committed suicide, Bormann and others attempted to flee Berlin on 2 May to avoid capture by the Soviets. Bormann probably committed suicide on a bridge near Lehrter station. His body was buried nearby on 8 May 1945, but was not found and confirmed as Bormann's until 1973; the identification was reaffirmed in 1998 by DNA tests. The missing Bormann was tried in absentia by the International Military Tribunal in the Nuremberg trials of 1945 and 1946. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.
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that rises above the town of Berchtesgaden. It was commissioned by MartinBormann in the summer of 1937. Paid for by the Nazi Party, it was completed...
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the IMT along with MartinBormann who was tried in absentia as he was thought to be still alive. Eight were sentenced to death (Bormann, Hans Frank, Frick...
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reached the Führerbunker and was met by Joseph Goebbels, Reichsleiter MartinBormann and General Hans Krebs. They took him to Hitler's room, where the couple...
television actress. She is best remembered as the mistress of Reichsleiter MartinBormann during World War II. The actress moved to the Maxim Gorki Theater in...
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