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Johann Georg Hiedler (28 September 1792 – 1857)
was born to Martin Hiedler (17 November 1762 – 10 January 1829) and
Anna Maria Goschl (August 23, 1760 – 7 December 1854).[1] He was
considered the officially accepted paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler by the
Third Reich. Whether Johann Georg was in
fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather is considered unknown
by modern historians.[2]
He was from Spital, Austria, and made his living as a wandering journeyman miller.[3] He
married his first wife in 1824 but she died in childbirth five
months later[4]. In
1842, he married Maria Anna Schicklgruber and became
the legal stepfather to her illegitimate five year old son, Alois. It was later
claimed Johann Georg had fathered Alois prior to his marriage to
Maria, although Alois had been declared illegitimate on his birth
certificate and baptism papers; the claim that Johann Georg was the
true father of Alois was not made after the marriage of Maria and
Johann Georg, or, indeed, even during the lifetime of either of
them. In 1876, almost twenty years after the death of Johann Georg
and almost thirty years after the death of Maria, Alois was legally
declared to have been Johann Georg's son.[5]
Accordingly, Johann Georg Hiedler is one of three people most
cited by modern historians as having possibly been the actual
paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. The other two are Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, the
younger brother of Johann Georg, and a Graz Jew by the
name of Leopold
Frankenberger.
In the 1950s, this third possibility was popular among
historians, but modern historians now think it highly unlikely as
the Jews were expelled from Graz in the fifteenth century and were
not permitted to return until the 1860s, several decades after
Alois' birth[6].
References
- (Dutch)
Vermeeren, Marc (2007). De jeugd
van Adolf Hitler 1889-1907 en zijn familie en voorouders.
Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt. pp. 420 blz. ISBN
90-5911-606-2.
- Bullock, Alan (1953). Hitler: A Study
in Tyranny. ISBN
0-06-092020-3.
- Fest, Joachim C.
(1973). Hitler. Verlag Ullstein. ISBN
0-15-141650-8.
- Kershaw, Ian (1999). Hitler 1889-1936:
Hubris. W W Norton. ISBN
0-393-04671-0.
- Maser, Werner (1973). Hitler:
Legend, Myth and Reality. Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN
0-06-012831-3.
- Smith, Bradley F. (1967). Adolf
Hitler: His Family, Childhood and Youth. Hoover Instituted. ISBN
0817916229.
External
links
References
- ^
See, e.g., Adolf Hitler's online family tree at about.com,
Online Family Tree. Family
trees can also be found in various Hitler biographies; see,
e.g., Toland, John (1976). Adolf Hitler. Garden City, New
York: Doubleday & Company. pp. 10-11. ISBN 0-385-03724
("Toland"); Kershaw, p. 5.
- ^
See, e.g., Kershaw, p. 4.
- ^
Toland, p. 4.
- ^
http://tripatlas.com/Johann_Georg_Hiedler
- ^
Toland, pp. 4-5. Johann Georg's younger brother, Johann
Nepomuk Hiedler, engineered the plan to change Alois' surname to
"Hitler" and to have Johann Georg declared the biological father of
Alois in 1876. Johann Nepomuk collected three "witnesses" (his
son-in-law and two others), who testified before a notary in Weitra
that Johann Georg had several times stated in their presence that
he was the actual father of Alois and wanted to make Alois his
legitimate son and heir. The parish priest in Doellersheim, where
the original birth certificate of Alois resided, altered the birth
register. Alois was thirty-nine years old at the time and was
well-known in the community as "Alois Shicklgruber."
- ^
See Toland, pp. 246-7; Kershaw, pp. 8-9. Toland's
conclusion is based on the research of Nikolaus Preradovic,
University of Graz, who examined the books of the Jewish
congregation at Graz and who concluded that, prior to 1856, there
had not been "one single Jew" in Graz since the fifteenth century.
Kershaw concludes that, whoever Alois' father may have been, he was
not a Jew from Graz.
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