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Martin Bormann, (born June 17, 1900, Wegeleben, near Halberstadt, Germany—died May 1945, Berlin), powerful party leader in Nazi Germany, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest lieutenants. Martin Bormann An avowed and vocal pan-German in his youth, Bormann participated in right-wing German Free Corps activities after the close of World War I .

Martin Bormann (1900–1945) became the chief of staff for Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, in 1933. Virtually unknown to the German public, Bormann as a close assistant to Hitler was a powerful force behind the scenes in internal politics.

In October 1943, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Martin Bormann fell head over heels with a woman he flirted with at a ball. The woman, Manja Behrens, was a dental assistant turned actress,...

Martin Bormann was head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary of Adolf Hitler, who by the end of World War II had become second only to the Fuhrer himself in terms of real political power. Bormann was born on June 17, 1900, in Halberstadt, Germany. The son of a former Prussian regimental sergeant-major who later became a post-office ...

Contrary to statements of an eye-witness who reported that Martin Bormann, the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, died on 2 May 1945 in Berlin, rumours persisted over the years that he had escaped from Germany after World War II.