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After World War II, many people born with the surname legally changed their surname. [1] Adolf's family used several varieties of the surname. The spelling 'Hitler' was relatively new. [citation needed] As of 2014, Peru was, with around 2349 people, the country with the most citizens named Hitler as a first name. [2]
Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many variations of the family surname "Hitler" almost interchangeably. Some of the common variants were Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler, and Hittler. [3] Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died in 1960 and did not have children, was the last member of the family still bearing the Hitler surname on their ...
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.
The following is a list of notable people from A to E (last name) who were at some point a follower of the ideology of Nazism or affiliated with the Nazi Party. This is not meant to be a list of every person who was ever a member of the Nazi Party, some entries can be found elsewhere on the encyclopedia.
Nazi march of the German American Bund on East 86th St., New York City, 30 October 1939. Nazism in the Americas has existed since the 1930s and continues to exist today. The membership of the earliest groups reflected the sympathies some German-Americans and German Latin-Americans had for Nazi Germany.
Michael Hillegas – first Treasurer of the United States [471] Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [472] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [473] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The idea came from Hans Frank, a top Nazi official who wrote in 1946 that Hitler was fathered by a Jewish merchant whose Graz household once employed Hitler’s grandmother.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party , [ c ] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.