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Alois Hitler (né Schicklgruber; [1] 7 June 1837 – 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of Adolf Hitler. Alois Schicklgruber was born out of wedlock. His mother was Maria Schicklgruber , but his biological father remains unknown.
Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname on 7 January 1877 to "Hitler" (derived from that of his deceased stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler), which was the only form of the last name that his son Adolf used. [2] Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many variations of the family surname "Hitler" almost interchangeably ...
Hitler's father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was the illegitimate child of Maria Schicklgruber. [4] The baptismal register did not show the name of his father, and Alois initially bore his mother's surname, "Schicklgruber". In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois's mother.
Referring to the parentage of Hitler's father Alois Hitler—who was born in 1837 as the illegitimate son of the housemaid Anna Maria Schicklgruber, which has not been clarified with absolute certainty—the Frankenberger thesis asserts that the unknown father of Hitler's father a Jewish merchant from Graz named Leopold Frankenberger (or ...
Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; his father, Alois Hitler, was a free-thinker and skeptical of the Catholic Church. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz , Austria , where the family lived. [ 8 ]
Schicklgruber's son Alois in his later years. In 1837, when she was 42 years old and still unmarried, her only child, Alois, was born.Maser notes that she refused to reveal who the boy's father was, so the priest baptized the baby Alois Schicklgruber and entered "illegitimate" in place of the father's name on the baptismal register.
Hitler's birthplace with memorial stone for victims of fascism. Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn where his father Alois Hitler served as a customs official since 1875. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. [3]
Johann Georg Hiedler (baptised 28 February 1792 – 9 February 1857) was a journeyman miller [1] who was officially considered to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler by Nazi Germany. However, whether Hiedler was in fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather remains disputed by modern historians.