Martin Adolf Bormann

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Martin Adolf Bormann
Born
Martin Adolf Bormann

(1930-04-14)14 April 1930
Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany
Died11 March 2013(2013-03-11) (aged 82)
Herdecke, Germany
Occupation(s)Theologian and priest
Spouse
Cordula
​
(m. 1971)​
Parents
  • Roman Catholic
Ordained26 July 1958
LaicizedYes

Martin Adolf Bormann (14 April 1930 – 11 March 2013) was a German

laicized Roman Catholic priest. He was the eldest of the ten children of Martin Bormann
.

Early life

Bormann was born in

Tyrol
from 1940 to 1945.

On 15 April 1945, the school closed and young Martin was advised by a party functionary in Munich, named Hummel, to try to reach his mother in the still German-occupied hamlet of Val Gardena/Gröden, near Selva/Wolkenstein in Italian South Tyrol. Unable to get there, he found himself stranded in Salzburg where the Gauleiter provided him with false identity papers and he found hospitality with a Catholic farmer, Nikolaus Hohenwarter, at the Querleitnerhof, halfway up a mountain in the Salzburg Alps.

Post-war

After Germany surrendered, his mother Gerda was subjected to intense interrogation by officers of the CIC (Combined Intelligence Committee, the joint American-British intelligence body). She died of abdominal cancer[4] in the prison hospital at Merano on 23 March 1946. The following year, he learned of his mother's death from an article in the Salzburger Nachrichten and only then confessed his true identity to Hohenwarter, who reported the information to his local priest at Weißbach bei Lofer. Subsequently, the priest advised the rector of the Church of Maria Kirchtal, who then took the boy into his care.[citation needed]

Young Martin converted to Catholicism. While serving as an

altar boy at Maria Kirchtal, he was arrested by American intelligence officers and imprisoned at Zell am See for several days of interrogation before being returned to his parish. He stayed there until he joined the religious congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Ingolstadt. He had been able to resume contact with his brothers and sisters, all of whom, except for one sister, had also been received into the Catholic Church.[5]

Life as a priest

On 26 July 1958,

Simba rebellion. In 1966, he returned to the Congo for a year.[9][10][11]

Life after the priesthood

Following a near-fatal injury in 1969 Bormann was nursed back to health by a nun named Cordula. He left the priesthood in the early 1970s, and they later both renounced their vows and wed in 1971. They had no children.[citation needed]

Bormann became a teacher of

Third Reich, and even visited Israel, meeting with Holocaust survivors.[12]

In 2011, Bormann was accused by a former pupil at an Austrian Catholic boarding school of having raped him as a 12-year-old when Bormann was working there as a priest and schoolmaster in the early 1960s. Other former pupils alleged severe physical violence had been used against them and others. By this point, Bormann was suffering from dementia and was unwilling to and/or incapable of commenting on the accusations. No legal proceedings followed, but the independent Klasnic Commission [de], established to investigate abuse by Catholic Church members in Austria, awarded the accuser compensation.[13][14]

Bormann died in 2013 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.[15]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice, 156
  2. ^ Alan Levy, Wanted: Nazi Criminals at Large, 92
  3. ^ Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
  4. ^ Lebert, Stephan and Norbert (2000). My father's keeper. Munich: Verlagsgruppe Bertalsmann GmbH. pp. 93–97.
  5. ^ Lebert, Stephan and Norbert (2000). My father's keeper. Munich: Verlagsgruppe Bertalsmann GmbH.
  6. ^ MSC (Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus). 1963. Album Societatis Missionariorum Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu a Consilio Generali Societatis ad modum manuscripti pro Sociis editum. Roma: MSC. p. 255
  7. ^ Bormann, Martin Jr. 1965. Zwischen Kreuz und Fetisch: Die Geschichte einer Kongomission. Bayreuth: Hestia.
  8. ^ Bormann, Martin Jr. 1996. Leben gegen Schatten: Gelebte Zeit, geschenkte Zeit. Paderborn: Bonifatius.
  9. ^ MSC (Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus). 1966. Album Societatis Missionariorum Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu, A Consilio Generali Societatis ad modum manuscripti pro Sociis editum. Rome: MSC. p. 260
  10. ^ "Interkulturelle Konfliktbewältigung - Den Abgrund Überbrücken", Jüdisches Kulturzentrum Graz, 4-6 November 2004, haGalil.com.
  11. New York Times
    . 29 November 1964.
  12. ^ "Simon Finch, 'Sins of the father'". The Spectator. 15 January 2000.
  13. ^ Tony Patterson (4 January 2011). "Son of Hitler's deputy faces accusations of sexual assault". The Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  14. ^ "Klasnic-Kommission entschädigt Missbrauchsopfer" [Klasnic-Commission compensates abuse victims]. ORF (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Traueranzeigen: Martin Bormann" (in German). Westfälische Rundschau. 15 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2013.

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