Angela Hammitzsch

Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch (born Hitler , widowed Raubal ; incorrectly partly also Angelika ; * July 28, 1883 in Vienna ; † October 20, 1949 in Hanover ) was a half-sister of Adolf Hitler and the second wife of the architect Martin Hammitzsch .

Life

Angela Hitler was the daughter of Alois Hitler and his second wife Franziska Matzelsberger, who died of tuberculosis a little over a year after the child was born in August 1884. As a child, Angela was very close to her half-brother Adolf. Later she was also the only living relative to whom Adolf Hitler publicly confessed. It is also recorded that the brother had to support the sisters, Angela and Paula , financially.

She married the civil servant Leo Raubal in Linz in 1903 , who died in 1910. Angela moved to Vienna with her three small children Angela (called "Geli") , Elfriede and Leo and during the First World War she became a cook in the kosher kitchen of the Association of Jewish Students, Mensa Academica Judaica .

Angela, described as a tall, rustic and energetic woman, from whom later not a word of condemnation of the Holocaust was heard, is said to have defended Jewish students with a club in hand against attacks by so-called "Aryan" fellow students. She only seems to have resumed contact with Adolf Hitler after he was released from the army. In some places it has also been reported that Angela visited Adolf Hitler from Vienna when he was imprisoned in Landsberg .

In 1924 (or 1925) Angela moved to Munich with her children and Hitler ran the household. Later she took over the management of the Berghof near Berchtesgaden . In 1935 there was a break between Adolf and Angela. She and her daughter Elfriede left Berchtesgaden in September and moved to Radebeul near Dresden . There she lived in the house in the sun and on January 20, 1936 married the Dresden architect Martin Hammitzsch . William Patrick Hitler claimed that the reason for the break was Angela's too open attitude towards Hermann Göring , who at the time had the intention of buying the land around Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden. According to others, the reason for this break was Hitler's relationship with Eva Braun , who - although almost thirty years younger than Angela - had been the landlady at the Berghof since 1935 or 1936 . In any case, there was little contact between the siblings afterwards. Hitler was also not present at Angela's second wedding.

Later, however, there seems to have been a reconciliation, at least in 1938 Angela still acted as a connection between Hitler and the poor relatives in the Waldviertel , with whom the “Führer” did not want to be directly connected.

In 1944, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Klara May , the widow of the writer Karl May , with whom she was friends, Angela Hammitzsch proposed that Klara May be made an honorary citizen of Radebeul , which the authorities refused.

In the spring of 1945 Hitler had her fetched from Dresden to Berchtesgaden to prevent her falling into the hands of the Red Army . Her husband Martin Hammitzsch died in May 1945 at Oberwiesenthal by suicide .

On June 18, 1945, she was interrogated by the US military authorities and then returned to Dresden. Angela Hammitzsch lived in Germering from December 1945 until shortly before her death . She died of a stroke in Hanover on October 20, 1949 .

Literature and films

• Wolfgang Zdral : The Hitlers. The Führer’s unknown family. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-593-37457-4 .
  as a paperback edition: Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-61631-2 , pp. 100-120.
• Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889–1907 en zijn familie en voorouders. Uitgeverij aspect, Soesterberg 2007, ISBN 978-90-5911-606-1 .
• Oliver Halmburger , Thomas Staehler: Hitler family. In the shadow of the dictator. (Documentary with the collaboration of Timothy W. Ryback and Florian M. Beierl) Oliver Halmburger (Loopfilm, Munich) / ZDF-History, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptismal register of St. Othmar among the white tanners, tom. IV, p. 151. In: Matricula. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Duplicate weddings Linz St. Josef, tom. XI, p. 41. In: Matricula. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Duplicate weddings Linz St. Matthias, 1910, pag. XXXXI. In: Matricula. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
4. ^ Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Bulletin of March 8, 1936
5. ^ Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, Basic Books, New York, 1972, p. 121.
6. ↑ See for example Wolfgang Zdral : Die Hitlers , pp. 112–114.
7. ↑ for details see Wolfgang Zdral: Die Hitlers , p. 115.
8. ^ Notices from the Karl May Society No. 117, p. 15 .
9. ↑ Christine Pieper: Martin Hammitzsch and Angela Raubal. Hitler's half-sister and her husband Martin Hammitzsch . In: Christine Pieper, Mike Schmeitzner , Gerhard Naser (Eds.): Braune Karrieren. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 , pp. 288–295, here p. 294.
10. ↑ Florian J. Haamann: Germering - The Mysterious Unknown , sueddeutsche.de, November 6, 2015, as well as an interview by Florian Haamann with contemporary witness Anni Seitz “I had a premonition” , sueddeutsche.de, November 7, 2015; both accessed on April 7, 2020.
11. ↑ Wolfgang Zdral: Die Hitlers , p. 122 f.