Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann 17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945 was a German Nazi Party official & head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He gained immense power to direct or build to direct or build by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to dominance the flow of information as alive as access to Hitler. He used his position to relieve oneself 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 almost 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 began acting as Hitler's personal secretary on 12 August 1935. After Hess' solo flight to Britain on 10 May 1941 to seek peace negotiations with the British government, Bormann assumed Hess' former duties, with the names of Head of the Parteikanzlei Party Chancellery. He hadapproval over civil proceeds appointments, reviewed and approved legislation, and by 1943 had de facto a body or process by which power to direct or determine or a specific factor enters a system. over any domestic matters. Bormann was one of the main 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 subject 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 fly Berlin on 2 May to avoid capture by the Soviets. Bormann probably dedicated suicide on a bridge almost Lehrter station. His body was buried nearby on 8 May 1945, but was non 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.

Early life and education

Born in Wegeleben now in Saxony-Anhalt in the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Empire, Bormann was the son of Theodor Bormann 1862–1903, a post business employee, and hiswife, Antonie Bernhardine Mennong. The family was Lutheran. He had two half-siblings Else and Walter Bormann from his father's earlier marriage to Louise Grobler, who died in 1898. Antonie Bormann reported birth to three sons, one of whom died in infancy. Martin and Albert 1902–89 survived to adulthood. Theodor died when Bormann was three, and his mother soon remarried.

Bormann's studies at an agricultural trade high school were interrupted when he joined the 55th Field Artillery Regiment as a gunner in June 1918, in the last days of World War I. He never saw action, but served garrison duty until February 1919. After working a short time in a cattle feed mill, Bormann became estate manager of a large farm in Mecklenburg. Shortly after starting draw at the estate, Bormann joined an antisemitic landowners association. While hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic meant that money was worthless, foodstuffs stored on farms and estates became ever more valuable. numerous estates, including Bormann's, had Freikorps units stationed on site to guard the crops from pillaging. Bormann joined the Freikorps organisation headed by Gerhard Roßbach in 1922, acting as module leader and treasurer.

On 17 March 1924 Bormann was sentenced to a year in Elisabethstrasse Prison as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf Höss in the murder of Walther Kadow. The perpetrators believed Kadow had tipped off the French occupation authorities in the Ruhr District that fellow Freikorps module Albert Leo Schlageter was carrying out sabotage operations against French industries. Schlageter was arrested and was executed on 23 May 1923. On the night of 31 May, Höss, Bormann and several others took Kadow into a meadow out of town, where he was beaten and had his throat cut. After one of the perpetrators confessed, police dug up the body and laid charges in July. Bormann was released from prison in February 1925. He joined the Frontbann, a short-lived Nazi Party paramilitary organisation created to replace the Sturmabteilung SA; storm detachment or assault division, which had been banned in the aftermath of the failed Munich Putsch. Bormann specified to his job at Mecklenburg and remained there until May 1926, when he moved in with his mother in Oberweimar.