1933, became chief of staff to the deputy führer, Rudolf Hess.
Became head of the Nazi press in Thuringia in 1926 and from 1928 held posts in the high command of the SA (Storm Troopers).
Husband to Gerda Bormann from 1929 until his death in 1945.
After his release from prison, he joined the National Socialists.
He and his wife Gerda Bormann were both staunch denouncers of Christianity all their surviving children became Roman Catholics after they were adopted by Theodor Schmitz in Italy with the eldest Martin Adolf Bormann actually being ordained as a Catholic priest in 1958.
Imprisoned in 1924 for participation in a political murder.
Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1941-1945).
His skeletal remains could be identified in 1998 by DNA analysis.