August Kubizek
August Friedrich Kubizek ( born August 3, 1888 in Linz, † October 23, 1956 in Vienna) was a friend of Adolf Hitler during his Linz and Vienna period ( 1905-1908 ).
Life
Kubizek began after attending the public school apprenticeship as an upholsterer in his father's company in Linz. He was friends with Hitler in the years 1905 to 1908, most notably the common love for the music of Richard Wagner served as a link between the two.
According Kubizek memoirs succeeded the young Hitler in the spring of 1908 to convince Kubizek father of these to have at the Vienna Conservatory to study music. Previously, this strong objections to the considerations of his son had had to make his musical interests into a career, and preferred to learn to let this something practical.
In Vienna, Hitler and Kubizek lived for several months together in one room in the Czech Zakreys to sublet. While Kubizek 1908 for eight weeks rendered military service in the Austrian army in the fall, Hitler moved out of the common room, without leaving a message on his whereabouts.
From October 1912 to 1914 Kubizek worked as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater in Maribor. After that he took part in World War I until 1918. After the war Kubizek worked as a conductor in Vienna and from 1920 to 1945 as a municipal office director and conductor of the town chapel of the Musikverein Eferding (Upper Austria ).
On August 1, 1914 married Anna Kubizek spark, a violinist from Vienna. The marriage produced three sons were born: the composer Augustin (1918-2009), Rudolf ( * 1923) and Karl Maria ( 1925-1995 ).
1933 Kubizek congratulated Hitler on his appointment as Reich Chancellor. In April 1938 there was a renewed encounter between Hitler and Kubizek in Linz, 1939 and 1940 Kubizek was invited as a personal guest of Hitler to the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, where he attended the demonstrations in common with Hitler.
After the war Kubizek was arrested because of his personal relationship with Hitler. He spent 16 months in detention camp Glasbach and was interrogated several times. His memories and the Hitler letters survived in a wall of his house in Eferding.
Importance for historical research
In 1953 he published as a witness of a book about his childhood friendship with Adolf Hitler. Some historians draw some of it due to lack of witnesses and evidence in doubt. After the appearance of Franz Jetzinger's book " Hitler Youth: fantasies, lies - and the truth " in 1956, in the Jetzinger fiercely argues against Kubizek and performs inter alia, that " 90 % of Kubizek statements [ in the book ] (...) a pack of pack of lies " are, and with elaborate proofs this " substantiated " Kubizek was in historical research for a long time as a little reliable witness. So many errors Jetzinger's find when assessing Kubizek inter alia also at Maser and hard again. Recent research - for example Brigitte Hamann - estimates Kubizek one as a broadly credible witnesses and keeps most of his statements to be true.
Is Doubt in research merely alleged by Kubizek already for the Wiener time anti -Semitic attitude of Hitler, which is found in no other source over this period confirmed and by Hitler's friendship with Jewish roommates during his time in Vienna Men's dormitory at Meldemannstraße such as Josef Neumann or Siegfried Löffner questionable appears. Demonstrably false is Kubizek assertion that Hitler had in 1908 joined the Austrian Anti-Semitic and have him Kubizek, " equal with Me". Hamann believed that Kubizek have tried here to attribute its own independent entrance into the covenant in later years later Hitler and tried for the sake of credibility, to have been the early Hitler appear as anti-Semites.
Writings
- August Kubizek: Adolf Hitler, my childhood friend. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz, 1953 ( 9th edition, 2002: ISBN 3-7020-0971- X)