What is Adolf Hitler's family background?

Answer 1

His family name was Shickelgruber, not his born name, but 1 generation back. Was refused admission to art school in Vienna. Served in WWI and was gased, attained rank of corporal. Self educated mostly.Father was acustoms official.

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left, before completing his tuition, with an ambition to become an artist. When Adolf Hitler was thirteen, his father died and his mother brought him and his sister up on her own. Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, young Adolf neither worked to earn his keep, nor formally studied, but had gained an interest in politics and history. During this time he unsuccessfully applied for admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. When he was nineteen, his mother died. He didn't have any relatives to support him and he was very poor. For one year, he was living in homeless shelters and ate at charity soup-kitchens.

Answer 3

Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He moved to Munich, Germany in 1913 when he was 24.

Hitler was born in the small town of Braunau, on the Inn River in Austria in 1889, to a German family. He was German.

Answer 4

Hitler was Austrian by birth but chose to serve in the German army during the First World War, which qualified him for German citizenship. There are various spellings of the family name, including "Hittler" and "Hiedler." His father's birth name was Schickelgruber: he was illegitimate but later recognized by his biological sire, who was named Hitler, so Hitler's father adopted the name. Adolf Hitler himself was never named Schickelgruber, contrary to some popular stories circulated at the time.

Answer 5

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. His parents were Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler (nee Pölzl). Klara was his 3rd wife. There is some debate whether she was his half-sister or his second cousin.

Alois Hitler was born on 7 June 1837 as the illegitimate son of Anna Maria Schicklgruber and Johann Georg Hiedler. He went by the name of Alois Schicklgruber until he was 39, when, in 1876, his uncle, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, included him in his will on the condition that he change his name to Hiedler. As a result of dialectic variations the name change was recorded in the church registry of the parish of Döllersheim on 4 June 1876 as Alois Hitler.

On 6 January 1877, the name change was officially confirmed and Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler, which secured him his share of the inheritance.

In the 19th Century there were several variations of the name in Austria: Hüttler, Hiedler, Hittler and Hitler depending on region and dialect and all variations were pronounced more or less the same. It is accepted that the variations are derived from Hütte (hut) and was probably used to refer to a peasant or small holder.

As to why Alois Hitler did not correct this mistake and ensure that his new surname was correctly recorded as Hiedler is debatable. Journalist and histororian Wolfgang Zdral wrote in his book The Hitlers: "[Alois] probably liked the idea that he could distance himself from his ancestry with this variation. As "Hitler" he would begin a new branch of the family tree and as a dynastic progenitor he would found his own clan". Professionally, Alois Hitler enjoyed a relatively successful career as a customs official. He was an authoritarian figure who was prone to fits of violence. He died in 1903 when Hitler was 13.

Hitler's mother was born on 12 August 1960 as the daughter of peasant farmers Johann Baptist Pölzl and Johanna Hüttler. After completing her compulsory education at the age of 15, she was employed as a maid by Hitler's father. He was forced to dismiss her at the request of his first wife, Anna Glasl-Hörer. He eventually married her on 7 January 1885 (his third wife) after getting special papal dispensation due to their blood-relationship.

Answer 6

Yes, his parents were cousins. This was the reason for his learning disability.

I don't know who changed the answer but they were wrong.

Answer 7

Germany many years ago in world war maby secretly now

Answer 8

No. As a matter of fact, his family for generations had been raised as anti-Semitics.

Answer 9

Austrian