Albert Bormann

Albert Bormann ( born September 2, 1902 in Halberstadt, † April 8, 1989 in Munich) was the younger brother of Martin Bormann and the Nazi Party functionary.

Life

He was the third child of postal workers Theodor Bormann and his wife Antonie, born Mennong. His father died young and his mother married Albert Vollenborn.

Bormann was by profession a bank clerk and practiced this activity from 1922 to 1931. In 1927, he joined the NSDAP and the SA. From 1929 to 1931 he was Gauführer the Hitler Youth in Thuringia. From 1931 he worked in the private practice of Adolf Hitler, he became manager in 1933. The private firm was from 1934, the main office I Hitler's chancellery. Since 1934 he worked as a personal aide of the NSDAP leader, therefore Hitler. First remunerated as SA -Sturmbannführer, quickly followed by carriage to the group leader of the NSKK and Reich Main Office of the NSDAP ( 1940). For the NSDAP, he became in 1938 a member of parliament representing the constituency of West Berlin. On April 21, 1945 Albert Bormann was flown to the Obersalzberg.

After the surrender he lived under an assumed name as a farm laborer in Bavaria. In 1949, he showed up at himself and was interned for a short time. After the dismissal Albert Bormann lived in southern Germany.

Bormann led the private firm Hitler competently and reliably, consistently saw his brother Martin Bormann in him an annoying competition, as he realized that his brother had even without him influence on Hitler. Albert Bormann distilled eg from the private letters an early form demoskopischer analyzes which he could recite Hitler and influenced policy, at least until the "seizure of power " in 1933, Hitler. Is rumored that Martin Bormann his brother's wife, a Hungarian, as to " un-Aryan " panelist. The brothers were regarded as enemies: if they were in the same room, they did not speak to each other. Albert Bormann worked inconspicuously, but effective and occasionally took control over personnel decisions in the immediate vicinity of Hitler, as for example in the order of Traudl Junge as Hitler's private secretary. As a person he stepped back towards his not inconsiderable influence. A scientific study, which describes his work in detail, does not exist.