Leo Raubal

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Leo Rudolf Raubal (born October 2, 1906 in Linz , † 1977 or 1979) was a half-nephew of Adolf Hitler , a son of Leo Raubal and Angela Raubal (née Hitler , later married Hammitzsch ).

Life

Leo Raubal jun. was born in 1906 as the son of Adolf Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal. He had two sisters: Elfriede and Geli .

Raubal was teacher of chemistry, worked in that capacity in Salzburg and attended sporadically mother in Berchtesgaden . On these occasions, according to his cousin William Patrick Hitler , a son from the first marriage of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois Hitler junior , he avoided his uncle Adolf because he had blamed him for the death of his sister Geli. However, this claim cannot be confirmed with other sources. Werner Maser 's biography of Hitler shows that Leo Raubal publicly stated in 1967 that Hitler was “absolutely innocent” of his sister's death. Leo Raubal was like his younger cousin Heinz Hitler , but in contrast to William Patrick, as the "favorite nephew of the Führer".

During the Second World War Raubal was drafted into the Wehrmacht . During Operation Barbarossa , the attack on the Soviet Union , he was a lieutenant in the engineer force . In 1942 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets during the fighting over Stalingrad . His uncle Adolf Hitler, who had a mostly good relationship with Raubal and his mother, then ordered that the possibility of an exchange of prisoners with Stalin be explored. Stalin's son Jakow Dschugaschwili , who was captured by the Wehrmacht near Smolensk in 1941 , was then to be exchanged for Leo Raubal. However, Stalin did not agree to such an exchange. Jakow Dschugaschwili died in 1943 in German captivity, Raubal was held in Moscow prisons until 1955 .

Raubal later worked for a time as a director dealing with chemistry in a successor company to the former Göring steel works in Linz .

literature

  • Werner Maser: Adolf Hitler. Myth, Legend, Reality , Bechtle, Munich 2001 18 ; ISBN 3-7628-0521-0 .
  • Walter Mayr: The Führer, my uncle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2001, p. 142 ( online - 9 July 2001 ).
  • Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889–1907 en zijn familie en voorouders , Uitgeverij aspect, Soesterberg 2007, ISBN 90-5911-606-2 .
  • Oliver Halmburger, Thomas Staehler: Hitler family. In the shadow of the dictator , Oliver Halmburger Loopfilm GmbH, Munich, and ZDF-History, Mainz 2005 (documentary film), DVD.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b baptisms duplicates Linz city parish, tom. 31, p. 635. In: Matricula. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Raubal, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raubal, Leo Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nephew of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH 1977 or 1979