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| '''Alois Hitler''' (June 7, 1837 - January 3, 1903), was the father of ]. Born '''"Aloys Schicklgruber<sup>]</sup>,"''' he changed his legal name by use of deception when he was 39 years old. | '''Alois Hitler''' (June 7, 1837 - January 3, 1903), was the father of ]. Born '''"Aloys Schicklgruber<sup>]</sup>,"''' he changed his legal name by use of deception when he was 39 years old. | ||
| He was a minor customs official who had been born to an unmarried woman, ]. As a young man he used his birthname, but in 1876, Alois took on his step-father's surname by misleading the church into declaring him the legal son of Johann Georg Hiedler. | He was a minor customs official who had been born to an unmarried woman, ]. As a young man he used his birthname, but in 1876, Alois took on his step-father's surname by misleading the church into declaring him the legal son of ]. | ||
| "The first of many strokes of good fortune for Adolf Hitler took place thirteen years before he was born. In 1876, the man who was to become his father changed his name from Alois Shicklgruber to Alois Hitler. Adolf can be believed when he said that nothing his father had done had pleased him so much as to drop the coarsely rustic name of Schicklgruber. Certainly, 'Heil Schicklgruber' would have sounded an unlikely salutation to a national hero." - Kershaw, p.3 | |||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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Alois Hitler (June 7, 1837 - January 3, 1903), was the father of Adolf Hitler. Born "Aloys Schicklgruber," he changed his legal name by use of deception when he was 39 years old.
He was a minor customs official who had been born to an unmarried woman, Maria Schicklgruber. As a young man he used his birthname, but in 1876, Alois took on his step-father's surname by misleading the church into declaring him the legal son of Johann Georg Hiedler.
"The first of many strokes of good fortune for Adolf Hitler took place thirteen years before he was born. In 1876, the man who was to become his father changed his name from Alois Shicklgruber to Alois Hitler. Adolf can be believed when he said that nothing his father had done had pleased him so much as to drop the coarsely rustic name of Schicklgruber. Certainly, 'Heil Schicklgruber' would have sounded an unlikely salutation to a national hero." - Kershaw, p.3
Notes
Sometimes spelled "Schickelgruber"
References
- Fest, Joachim C. Hitler Verlag Ullstein, 1973 ISBN 0-15-141650-8
- Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris W W Norton, 1999 ISBN 0-393-04671-0