Alois Hitler, Jr.

Alois Hitler, Jr. ( born Alois Matzelsberger, since 1945 called Alois Hiller, in Hamburg † May 20, 1956, born January 13, 1882 in Vienna ) was a half-brother of Adolf Hitler.

Life

Alois Hitler, Jr.. was born the illegitimate son of Alois Hitler and his ( later ) second wife Franziska Matzelsberger as Alois Matzelsberger. Only through the marriage of his parents in 1883 was legitimized its origin. In the same year his sister Angela was born. After this birth, the mother fell ill with tuberculosis and died on 10 August 1884. Thereupon Alois and his sister grew up with her father and his third wife, Klara Hitler, on. Alois left before the father's death the family home. With his half-brother Adolf Alois seemed to have never been well understood. Later he reported that Adolf was always preferred by his mother Klara, the third wife of the father, whereas Alois 've gotten some corporal punishment of the father for Adolf's pranks.

Since Alois Hitler, Jr.. showed technical talent, the father, to send him to an appropriate school and let be an engineer intended. These hopes seem to have been ( perhaps also by Clare intervention) dropped abruptly, at least the father was not willing to invest large sums in the training of his son. Instead, Alois was apprenticed.

With the demolition of the doctrine of the descent of Alois Hitler began jun. In 1900 he was sentenced to five months in prison for theft. In 1902 he had another eight months in prison. Finally he emigrated in 1905 after serving the prison sentence to London, where he once again began an apprenticeship and in 1909 the Irish -born Bridget Dowling married. 1911 her son William Patrick was born in Liverpool. The following four years were characterized by familial tensions. Alois was a drunk and beat as regularly as he drank, his wife, and probably also the small child. 1915 the father left the family and returned to Austria.

1924 was Alois Hitler, Jr.. in Hamburg on charges of bigamy. His wife, however, did not pursue the charges on, the conviction was exposed to six months in prison on probation (or repealed). Even with his second ( illegitimate ) wife Hedwig Frieda Amalie " hetero " Mickley from Great -Neuendorf ( 1889-1966 ), he had one child, Henry. His ( unspecified ) shops in Germany performed well until the Great Depression, but then went under. By 1934 he was living with odd jobs. In 1934 he opened in Berlin, Wittenberg Platz 3, the restaurant " Alois ", which was a popular meeting place for SA people. His brother Adolf, he never visited.

Since his brother's seizure of power Alois had jun. Adolf and no (that became known ) contact each other more. In Mein Kampf was Alois jun. entirely concealed, few knew of Hitler's brother. After the end of World War II, Alois Hitler lived, who now called himself Alois Hiller, unrecognized and in home-style environment with his family in Hamburg- Fuhlsbüttel. His grave was located in Hamburg in the main cemetery Ohlsdorf. It was abandoned in 2005. The grave was a family grave, had been buried in the next Alois Hetty also widely Related (John Theodore ) Hans Hitler with his wife Erna " Petra", born Schünemann, married Mach. Hans and Erna Hitler had also officially renamed " Hiller ".