BORMANN Martin BORMANN, Martin (1900 - 1945) Reichsminister / Reichsleiter / SS-Obergruppenfuhrer / SA-Obergruppenführer / M.d.R.: Born: 17. Jun. 1900 in Halberstadt / Mecklenburg. Killed or Suicide: 2. May 1945, in Berlin. NSDAP-Nr.: 60 508 (Joined 17.02.27) / SS-Nr.: (SS-DAL of 9.11.44 gives SS-Nr. 555, while SS-DAL of 1.12.37 gives SS-Nr. 278 267) SS Promotions: SS-OGruf.: 20.04.40; SS-Gruf.: 30.01.37 Assignments: Reichsminister: 1944 - 05.1945 Sekretär des Führers: 12.04.1943- 30.04.1945 Leiter der Parteikanzlei: 12.05.1941 - 1.05.1945 politischer und organisatorischer Leiter des Volkstums im persönlichen Stabe Hitlers: 1928 - Mitglied des Reichstages: 11.1933 - 1.05.1945 Reichsleiter der NSDAP: 10.1933 - 1.05.1945 Stabsleiter im Amt des Stellvertreters des Führers (Rudolf Hess): 07.1933 - 12.05.1941 Mitglied des Stabes der Obersten SA-Führung: 1928 - 1930 Gaupresseobmann der NSDAP in Thüringen: 1927 - 1928 Entered NSDAP: 17.02.1927 Army & Freikorps Service: Served as a Kanonier in a Feld-Artillerie-Rgt. toward the end of WW I. He was a member of the Freikorps of Gerhard Rossbach in Mecklenburg, 1922 - 1923. In Mar. 1924, he was sentenced to 1 year in prison as an accomplice of Rudolf Höß in the murder of Walther Kadow, his own former elementary teacher, after Kadow had allegedly betrayed the Nazi martyr Leo Schlageter to French occupation authorities in the Ruhrland. Postwar Prosecution: Tried in absentia by International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; sentenced to death, 1. Oct. 1946. Notes: Decorations & Awards: Goldenes Parteiabzeichen; Blutorden; Dienstauszeichnungen der NSDAP in Silber u. Bronze; SS-Dienstauszeichnungen; Ehrendegen des RF SS/Totenkopfring der SS. Information courtesy of Axis Biographical Research Signed card "With Best Wishes for the Julfest 1940". Card measures 5" x 7" mounted in a 12" x 20" frame Price: $1000 Please contact us before ordering to confirm availability and shipping costs. Buy now with your credit card other ways to buy