BY LUY
We all know Adolf Hitler but do we know who Adolf Schicklgruber was?
Well Adolf Hitler’s father Alois Hitler was born to a 42 year old, unmarried peasant Maria Schicklgruber in a hamlet in Lower Austria. Schicklgruber means a person who digs sewer. At his baptism the space for his father’s name was left blank and the priest wrote illegitimate. When Alois was 5, Georg Hiedler moved in with the Schicklgrubers and married Maria. By the age of 10 he was sent to live with Hiedler’s brother Nepomuk Hiedler. During his lifetime, Georg Hiedler was the stepfather and posthumously legally declared birth father of Alois. According to historian Frank McDonough, the most plausible theory is that Georg Hiedler was actually the birth father. An explanation for Alois being sent to live on his uncle’s farm as a child is that Hiedler and Maria married out of wedlock and were simply too poor to raise him, or could not raise him as well as his uncle, or perhaps Maria’s health was in decline.
Other historians suggest that Alois was the son of Nepmouk Hiedler who was a married man. To cover up for his affair he sent his brother Georg to marry Maria and raise Alois for him. Alois was raised by Nepmouk his step uncle through his teenage years and also received a considerable portion of his life savings. This indicates Nepmouk may have been Alois’ real father who cared for him and wanted to raise him without upsetting his wife.
When there were questions over Adolf Hitler’s ancestry he ordered to find out the facts. It was determined that at the time Maria Schicklgruber gave birth to Alois she was working as a household cook in the town of Graz, that her employers were a Jewish family named Frankenberger, and that her child might have been conceived out of wedlock with the family’s 19-year-old son, Leopold Frankenberger. Also, there is no evidence of a Frankenberger family living in Graz at that time.
It is also possible that Alois’ wife Klara Pölzl was probably his cousin. If Nepomuk was Hitler’s father, Klara was Alois’s half-niece because Klara was Nepmouk’s granddaughter. If his father was Johann Georg, she was his first cousin.
When Alois was promoted in the Customs service he applied to change his surname to that of his father, and it was entered as “Hitler” instead of “Hiedler” for unknown reasons.
Since then the family used the surname Hitler.
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