 The missing Bormann was tried "in absentia" by the International Military Tribunal in the Nuremberg trials of 1945 and 1946.He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.Born in Wegeleben (now in Saxony-Anhalt) in the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Empire, Bormann was the son of Theodor Bormann (1862–1903), a post office employee, and his second wife, Antonie Bernhardine Mennong.