Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a Nazi German politician and member of the Nazi Party. He was the private secretary of Adolf Hitler. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet.

In 1927 he joined the Nazi Party and later joined the Schutzstaffel in 1937 and was ranked as SS-Gruppenfuhrer,until he became SS-Obergruppenfuhrer in 1942 . At this time, he became one of Hitler's closet advisors.^[1] Because he took part in a murder, he was convicted to one year in prison in 1924 by the German Staatsgerichtshof.^[2] In May 1941, he became a Reichsminister. This was after Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland.^[1] In 1943, he became Hitler's private secretary.^[2] At the Nuremberg Trials, Bormann was convicted to death in 1946. This happened while he was not there.^[3]