Bormann Funeral Home Obituaries. 1945), one of Hitler's closest advisors. As Adolf Hitler 's p
1945), one of Hitler's closest advisors. As Adolf Hitler 's personal secretary, he was the second most powerful person in the Third Reich. His undeviating commitment to the NSDAP was rivaled only by his anticlericalism, which led him, beginning in 1942, to champion the brutal repression of the Catholic Church. Bormann has steadily improved the Cobbers from year-to-year and in 2024 he guided Concordia to its first MIAC playoff appearance since 2016. He disappeared at the end of the World War II, but a skeleton identified as his was later discovered in West Berlin. 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 gained immense power by using his position as Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. At the Nuremberg trials, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Commissioner for The Netherlands, testified that he had called Bormann to confirm an order to deport the Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, and further testified that Bormann passed along Hitler's orders for the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. Martin Bormann Martin Ludwig Bormann[2] (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal. Martin Bormann Martin Ludwig Bormann[2] (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal.