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Martin Bormann (1934)

Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 in Halberstadt – 2 May 1945 in Berlin) was a 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 1923, he took part in the Munich putsch. 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 because 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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bormann, Martin from Chambers Biographical Dictionary". credoreference.com. 2011 [last update]. http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/bormann_martin. Retrieved July 28, 2011. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Martin Bormann". Spiegel Online (Hamburg: SpiegelNet GmbH). http://www.spiegel.de/lexikon/54280193.html. Retrieved July 28, 2011. "Staatsgerichtshof". 
  3. ↑ "Bormann, Martin (1900 to 45) from Chambers Dictionary of World History". credoreference.com. 2011 [last update]. http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambdictwh/bormann_martin_1900_to_45. Retrieved July 28, 2011. 

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Defendants at the IMT Nuremberg Trials

Bormann · Dönitz · Frank · Frick · Fritzsche · Funk · Göring · Hess · Jodl · Kaltenbrunner · Keitel · v.Neurath · v.Papen · Raeder · v.Ribbentrop · Rosenberg · Sauckel · Schacht · v.Schirach · Seyß-Inquart · Speer · Streicher

Key: Sentenced to death · Imprisoned · Acquitted
Coat of arms of Nazi GermanyThe Hitler Cabinet
(30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945)
Franz von Papen (ind) • Konstantin von Neurath • Joachim von Ribbentrop • Wilhelm Frick • Heinrich Himmler • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (ind) • Alfred Hugenberg (DNVP) • Kurt Schmitt • Hjalmar Schacht (ind) • Hermann Göring • Walther Funk • Franz Seldte • Franz Gürtner (DNVP) • Franz Schlegelberger • Otto Georg Thierack • Werner von Blomberg (ind) • Wilhelm Keitel (ind) • Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (ind) • Julius Dorpmüller • Wilhelm Ohnesorge • Richard Walther Darré • Herbert Backe • Joseph Goebbels • Bernhard Rust • Fritz Todt • Albert Speer • Alfred Rosenberg • Hanns Kerrl • Hermann Muhs • Otto Meißner (ind) • Arthur Seyß-Inquart • Hans Frank • Hans Lammers • Martin Bormann • Karl Hermann Frank • Rudolf Hess • Ernst Röhm
All ministers were NSDAP members except where indicated ("ind" = nominally independent). Most of them became later also NSDAP members, except Von Papen, Hugenberg and Von Eltz-Rübenach.





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