On 1 April 1927, Bracht joined the Nazi Party with membership number 77,890 and was appointed leader of the NSDAP district of Sauerland in November 1928. He held the same position as of 1 March 1931 in Altena. Elected to the Prussian Landtag in 1932, he took on the post of acting Gauleiter of Silesia on 1 May 1935.