Heinrich Hitler

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Heinrich Hitler (born March 14, 1920 , † February 21, 1942 in Moscow ), mostly called Heinz Hitler , was the son of Alois Hitler junior and his second wife Hedwig Heidemann and thus a nephew of Adolf Hitler .

The parents' marriage was basically illegitimate, as Alois Hitler junior had never been divorced from his first Irish wife, Bridget Dowling . That is why he even had to answer for bigamy , albeit without any particular consequences .

In stark contrast to his older half-brother, the extravagant bon vivant William Patrick Hitler , but similar to his older cousin Leo Raubal , Heinz Hitler is said to have had the nimbus of a favorite nephew with his uncle Adolf Hitler . He was also able to attend one of the elite national political educational institutions (Napola) in Ballenstedt from 1935 to 1939 and also pass the Abitur there in 1939 .

According to the few sources, the youthful Heinz Hitler behaved completely loyal to his uncle and the National Socialist ideology . After his Napola training, Heinz Hitler joined the Wehrmacht as an officer candidate in 1939 . In the Second World War he took part in a non-commissioned officer rank from 1941 as a teleman with the Potsdam Artillery Regiment 23 in the 23rd Infantry Division in the so-called Operation Barbarossa , the attack on the Soviet Union , in the section of Army Group Center . Apparently against the dictator's wishes, he insisted on being able to serve directly at the front .

In the course of the first evacuation movements of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in the winter of 1941/42, the order was issued to Heinz Hitler on January 10, 1942, to recover telecommunications equipment from an already abandoned advanced position. During this mission he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and taken to the celebrity prison Butyrka in Moscow . Heinz Hitler died there in the spring of 1942. It is no longer possible to trace where his remains were.

What role the person Heinz Hitler in the deliberations of the High Command has played, Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili , who was killed in Smolensk the army into the hands of 1941 against prominent German prisoners of war such as Leo Raubal exchange, is not clear.

Literature and films

  • Oliver Halmburger and Thomas Staehler: Hitler family. In the shadow of the dictator. Documentary. With the collaboration of Timothy Ryback et al. Florian Beierl. Munich: Oliver Halmburger Loopfilm GmbH u. Mainz: ZDF History 2005.
  • Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889–1907 en zijn familie en voorouders. Uitgeverij aspect, Soesterberg 2007, ISBN 90-5911-606-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Zdral : The Hitlers: The Unknown Family of the Führer ( online at Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Werner Maser: Adolf Hitler: Legend, Myth, Reality. P. 447 .
personal data
SURNAME Hitler, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German half-nephew of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1920
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1942
Place of death Moscow