Ilse Braun

Ilse Braun (* 1908 in Munich ; † 1979 there ) was one of Eva Braun's two sisters alongside Gretl Braun . After the marriage of Hitler and her sister Eva, Ilse became his sister-in-law, shortly before the couple died together by suicide .

Life

Ilse Braun's mother: Franziska Braun

Ilse Braun was the eldest of three daughters of the teacher Friedrich (Fritz) Braun and the tailor Franziska (Fanny) Kronberger. She left her parents' house in 1929 and initially worked as an office assistant for the Jewish ear, nose and throat doctor Martin Levy Marx. He also made a room available to her. In view of the onset of the persecution of the Jews , she changed her job on “his advice” after eight years, during which time he made arrangements to emigrate .

On March 15, 1937, she took up her new position as secretary in the office of Albert Speer , Hitler's personal architect , in Berlin . Shortly before, on January 30, 1937, he had been appointed General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital (GBI). In October 1937 Ilse Braun married Xaver Höchstetter (* June 17, 1912 - May 15, 1976) in Berlin and gave up her new job after six months. After three years, the couple separated. In 1940 she completed a traineeship and worked as an editor for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1941 she married a Mr. Fucke-Michels and moved to Breslau , where she worked for the Schlesische Zeitung .

In contrast to her two sisters, Ilse Braun was rather uninterested in politics. She never belonged to Adolf Hitler's inner circle at the “ Berghof ”. After the Second World War , she lived with her mother in Ruhpolding after the death of her father in 1964 . Ilse Braun died in 1979 in Munich to cancer and is buried there. She didn't have any children.

literature

• Heike B. Görtemaker : Eva Braun. Life with Hitler. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-58514-2 .

Web links

• Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike B. Görtemaker (excerpt)