- Casualty of war on the eastern front.
- As a baby he returned with his father to Germany in 1918.
- After his recovery in 1934 he soon became established in the next few years as a youthful actor at the theater (among others with the play "Der gestiefelte Kater") as well as in movies like "Ferien vom Ich" (1935), "Traumulus" (1936) and "Jugend" (1938).
- Unlike his father who was an early sympathizer with the Nazis and a member of the anti-Semitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur,Hermann Braun held an anti-Nazi stance and retired from (or was forced out of) the Nazi-controlled motion picture industry.
- In the wartime it was only granted few more movies to Hermann Braun.
- His mother Gertrude Botz was a stage actress at the Lübeck Theater, and his sister Anne-Mary Braun was also an actress.
- The actor Hermann Braun was born in New York as the son of chamber singer Carl Braun and the stage actress Gertrude Botz.
- Most sources state that he was killed in heavy fighting on January 18, 1945 near Lodz, Poland. However, the German War Graves Commission memorial for Braun states that he rose to the rank of Lieutenant and died on January 20, 1945.
- He was possibly wounded on January 18, with his death occurring two days later. He is buried at Lodz.
- He made his film debut in 1933 with "Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz" (1933). He was so convincing with this small role that he was chosen for the leading role in the movie "Hitlerjunge Quex" (1933). But briefly before the beginning of the shooting he became very ill and he had let Jürgen Ohlsen have the role.
- When he conducted disapproving against the NS regime he had to pay dearly for that. The before as "Unabkömmlich" classified actor was called up for war service. First he was deployed for the Berlin soldier stage to entertain soldiers, later he was sent to the east front where he was killed in action in January 1945 at the Russian front line.
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