After training as a gardener, Bracht entered military service in 1917, and was deployed at the front until the end of World War I.

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 October 1928.

In 1944, with war threatening Silesia, Bracht ordered that air defence facilities in his Gau be upgraded and made stronger, however, he could not prevail upon the Armament Ministry to do so.

Major offensives were launched against Upper Silesia beginning in January 1945 and hostilities continued in the area into May.

As the Red Army marched into Silesia at the war's end, Bracht and his wife both died by poisoning themselves with potassium cyanide on 9 May 1945.