Alois Hitler junior

Alois Hitler junior (born as Alois Matzelsberger , called Alois Hiller since 1945 ; born January 13, 1882 in Vienna , † May 20, 1956 in Hamburg ) was a half-brother of Adolf Hitler .

Life

Alois Hitler jun. was born as the illegitimate son of Alois Hitler and his later second wife Franziska Matzelsberger as Alois Matzelsberger. His origin was not legitimized until his parents married in 1883. In the same year his sister Angela was born. After this birth, the mother fell ill with tuberculosis and died on August 10, 1884. Alois and his sister then grew up with their father and his third wife, Klara Hitler . Alois left her parents' house before her father died. Alois never seemed to have got on well with his half-brother Adolf. He later reported that Adolf had always been preferred by his mother Klara , the father's third wife, whereas Alois had received some flogging sentences from the father for Adolf's pranks.

Since Alois Hitler jun. showed technical talent, the father intended to send him to an appropriate school and become an engineer . These hopes seem to have been dropped abruptly, perhaps also due to Klara's intervention, in any case the father was not prepared to invest large sums in the education of the son. Instead, Alois was apprenticed.

With the termination of the apprenticeship, the descent of Alois Hitler junior began. In 1900 he was sentenced to five months in prison for theft. In 1902 he was imprisoned for another eight months. Finally, in 1905, after serving his sentence, he emigrated to London , where he began an apprenticeship again and in 1909 married Bridget Dowling of Irish descent . In 1911 their son William Patrick was born in Liverpool . The next four years were marked by family tensions. Alois was a drinker and beat up his wife and probably the little child as regularly as he drank. In 1915 the father left the family and returned to Austria .

In 1924 Alois Hitler jun. in Hamburg on charges of bigamy . However, since his wife did not pursue the charges, the sentence was suspended or waived for six months in prison. He also had a child, Heinrich, with his second, illegitimate wife, Hedwig Frieda Amalie "Hete" Mickley from Groß-Neuendorf (1889–1966) . His unspecified businesses in Germany developed positively until the Great Depression, but then went under. Until 1934 he survived doing odd jobs. In 1934 he opened in Berlin , Wittenbergplatz 3, "Alois" restaurant, a popular meeting place for SA was -People. Since the seizure of the half-brother Alois had jun. and Adolf no longer have known contact with each other. In Mein Kampf , Alois jun. completely secretive, only a few knew about Hitler's half-brother.

After the end of the Second World War , Alois Hitler, who now called himself Alois Hiller, lived unrecognized and in a middle-class environment with his family in Hamburg - Fuhlsbüttel . His grave was in Hamburg at the main cemetery in Ohlsdorf . It was in 2005 closed down . The grave was a family grave in which, in addition to Alois' wife Hete, the far-reaching relative (Johannes Theodor) Hans Hitler with his wife Erna "Petra", née. Schünemann, married Mach, had been buried. Hans and Erna Hitler had also officially renamed themselves "Hiller". According to one foster daughter, Hans and Erna lived in the same house.

literature

Scientific literature

• Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler, 1889–1907: en zijn familie en voorouders. Aspect, Soesterberg (Netherlands) 2007, ISBN 978-90-5911-606-1 . (Dutch)
• Wolfgang Zdral : The Hitlers: the unknown family of the Führer. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-593-37457-9 .

Fiction

• Norman Mailer : The castle in the forest. Langen-Müller, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7844-3104-8 . The novel deals with Adolf Hitler's first years of life on an authentic historical basis. His half-brother Alois Hitler junior is also shown.

Documentation

• Oliver Halmburger, Thomas Staehler: Hitler family. In the shadow of the dictator . Documentary, in collaboration with Timothy Ryback et al. Florian Beierl, Oliver Halmburger Loopfilm GmbH (Munich) and ZDF-History, Mainz 2005.

Remarks

1. ↑ See also: Table of contents from Die Hitlers im Library of Congress catalog, USA; Section about Alois Hitler junior  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Excerpt from Die Hitlers) on ciando.com (Chapter 4, pp. 130-131: The black sheep of the family [= Alois Hitler junior]).  
2. ↑ See also the English-language review of the ZDF documentation ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on expatica.com.