- Imprisoned in 1924 for participation in a political murder.
- His skeletal remains could be identified in 1998 by DNA analysis.
- Became head of the Nazi press in Thuringia in 1926 and from 1928 held posts in the high command of the SA (Storm Troopers).
- Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1941-1945).
- 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.
- After his release from prison, he joined the National Socialists.
- 1933, became chief of staff to the deputy führer, Rudolf Hess.
- Husband to Gerda Bormann from 1929 until his death in 1945.
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