Angela Hitler

Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch ( born Hitler, widowed Raubal; falsely partly Angelika; born July 28, 1883 in Braunau am Inn, † October 30, 1949 ) was a half-sister of Adolf Hitler and the second wife of the architect Martin Hammitzsch.

Life and work

Angela Hitler was the daughter of Alois Hitler and his second wife Franziska Matzelsberger, who died shortly after the child's birth in 1883. Angela was a child her half-brother Adolf very close. Later she was also the only living relative to the Adolf Hitler known publicly.

As 1907 Klara Hitler, the third wife of Alois Hitler died and a small inheritance was split between the children, this relationship seems to have had stock. At least that is narrated that the brother had to help the sisters, Angela, as well as Paula, financially, to Angela in Linz officials Leo Raubal senior married, but died in 1910. Angela moved with her three small children Angela (called " Geli " ), Elfriede and Leo to Vienna and was during the First World War, head of Mensa Academica Judaica.

The Angela described as tall, rustic and energetic woman of whom no word of condemnation of the Holocaust was later to be heard, should have defended Jewish students at that time with a stick in his hand vigorously against attacks of so-called " Aryan" students. Contact with Adolf Hitler seems to have resumed only when he was discharged from the army. In some places, but it has been also reported Angela did Adolf Hitler visited from Vienna when he was imprisoned in Landsberg.

1924 ( or 1925) drew Angela then with their children to Munich and Hitler led the budget. Later, she took over the leadership of the Berghof near Berchtesgaden. In 1935 came the break between Adolf and Angela. She left and her daughter, Elfriede in September Berchtesgaden and moved to Radebeul near Dresden, in the house in the sun because she married working in Dresden architect Martin Hammitzsch on 20 January 1936. William Patrick Hitler claimed that the reason for the break was an open attitude to Angela Hermann Goering was, at that time had the intention to buy the land around Hitler's home in Berchtesgaden. Although nearly thirty years younger than Angela - - acted at the Berghof in 1935 or 1936 as a hostess. According to others, the reason for this break Hitler's relationship with Eva Braun, who was In each case there was then very little contact between the siblings. Even Hitler was not present at the second wedding Angelas.

Later, it seems yet to have come to a reconciliation, or at least acted Angela in 1938 even as Hitler's connection to the poor relations in the Waldviertel, with the "leader " did not want to be brought directly.

In 1944, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Clara May, who the writer Karl May, she was friends with the widow, Angela suggested Hammitzsch to make Klara May an honorary citizen of Radebeul, but what the authorities refused.

In the spring of 1945 Hitler then let them pick from Dresden to Berchtesgaden to avoid that they would fall into Russian hands. Her husband Martin Hammitzsch died in May 1945 in Upper Wiesenthal by suicide.

Literature and Movies

  • Wolfgang Zdral: The Hitler. The unknown family of the leader. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-593-37457-4. in paperback: Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-61631-2, pp. 100-120.
  • Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889-1907 en zijn en voorouders family. Uitgeverij aspect, Soesterberg 2007, ISBN 978-90-5911-606-1.
  • Oliver Halmburger, Thomas Staehler: Hitler family. In the shadow of the dictator. (Documentary in collaboration with Timothy W. Ryback and Florian M. Beierl ) Oliver Halmburger ( Loopfilm, Munich) / ZDF History, 2005.
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