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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.
Klara Pölzl Hitler, third wife of Alois and mother of Adolf. On 13 January 1882, Franziska Matzelsberger gave birth to Alois Hitler's illegitimate son, also named Alois. As his parents were not married, the boy was named Alois Matzelsberger. Alois Hitler remained with Franziska while his wife, Anna, grew sicker and died on 6 April 1883.
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.
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.
With the help of three close relatives, Alois was legitimized, and officially changed his name on 6 January 1877, to Alois Hitler, and the parish priest in Döllersheim where the original birth certificate of Alois resided, then changed the details on the baptismal certificate from "Catholic, Male, Illegitimate" to "Johann Georg Hitler" under ...
Johanna's daughter, Nepomuk's granddaughter, Klara Pölzl, would eventually become the third wife of Alois Hitler. [7] Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Schicklgruber, who had married Johann's older brother, Johann Georg Hiedler on 10 May 1842, who may in fact have been Alois' natural father. Alois would claim in his later life that ...
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]
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 was a Jewish merchant from Graz named Leopold Frankenberger ...