Martin Bormann junior

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Adolf Martin Bormann (born April 14, 1930 in Grünwald ; † March 11, 2013 in Herdecke ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and the eldest son of Adolf Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann .

Life

Martin Bormann was the oldest of ten children of Martin Bormann and his wife Gerda and the first godson of Adolf Hitler, after whom he was named. As a child he was called "Krönzi" (corruption of the Crown Prince). The whole family lived largely isolated in the Führer's restricted area Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden , until he went to the " Reichsschule der NSDAP " in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg in 1940 .

At the end of the war he had to flee without his parents and was left behind by his companions under a false name on a mountain farm in Weißbach near Lofer in the province of Salzburg . The so-called Querleitenbauer took him in like a son. After this experience of practicing Christian charity , he completed Roman Catholic religious instruction in Maria Kirchental and was baptized as a Roman Catholic in 1947. In the same year, however, he was exposed and briefly detained. He then attended the private high school of the Sacred Heart Missionaries in Liefering and was ordained a priest in 1958 . In an interview he reported that he was terrified at the time of what his father, who was still considered missing at the time, would do to him if he found out about his step. He joined the order of the Sacred Heart Missionaries and worked from 1957 to 1960 as Frater Martin Educator at the Donauwörth Hl. Kreuz boarding school. He worked for years in the Congo , where he was taken hostage at times by the Simbarebells .

In 1969 he had a serious car accident and was cared for by a co-sister. Subsequently, both let themselves be released from their vows and married in 1971. Bormann worked as a teacher for religion, German, philosophy and theology. From 1992 he was retired.

At the end of December 2010, a former student of Bormann spoke up, accusing him of having sexually abused him several times over a year in the early 1960s, then at the age of twelve, in Liefering's monastery high school . Confronted by the news magazine Profil with these allegations, Bormann could not or did not want to remember this time. According to research by the Lieferinger Father Aninger, Bormann was no longer on duty in Salzburg-Liefering during the period in question, but was teaching in Klagenfurt . In June 2012, however, the independent victim protection commission headed by Waltraud Klasnic awarded the victim a five-figure compensation sum and therapy hours, paid for by the Catholic Church. However, this is not associated with Bormann's finding of guilt.

Attitude to National Socialism

Martin Bormann described a visit to Heinrich Himmler's house as a formative experience of his childhood , where his lover Hedwig Potthast showed him and his sister Himmler's "special collection": tables and chairs made from human bones as well as an edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf , which is said to have been bound in human skin.

In 1987 he met the Israeli psychologist Dan Bar-On of Ben Gurion University , who was the son of a Holocaust survivor . He became a member of Bar-On's TRT ( To Reflect and Trust ) discussion group between perpetrator and victim children and met with Holocaust survivors in Israel. He also spoke about his biography in school classes in Germany and Austria.

When he talked about his father, Bormann distinguished between the strict but beloved father, whom he experienced personally, and the political person whose actions he condemned.

In 2002 Bormann was awarded the Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature .

Fonts

literature

  • Dan Bar-On: The burden of silence. Conversations with children of Nazi perpetrators. Ed. Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89684-038-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death on waz.trauer.de, March 19, 2013
  2. ↑ MSC (Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus). 1963. Album Societatis Missionariorum Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu a Consilio Generali Societatis ad modum manuscripti pro Sociis editum . MSC, Roma, p. 255
  3. ^ Suspicion of abuse against the Hitler secretary's son , on orf.at , December 31, 2010
  4. ↑ Marianne Enigl, Edith Meinhart: Das kleine Liebeswerk , on profil.at , December 31, 2010
  5. ↑ Klasnic Commission compensates victims of abuse , on orf.at , June 11, 2012
  6. ↑ Guido Knopp: Hitler's helpers. 1996, p. 183
personal data
SURNAME Bormann, Martin junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borman, Adolf Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünwald
DATE OF DEATH 11th March 2013
Place of death Herdecke