Adolf Hitler

Adolphus Hitler (20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn - 30 April 1945, Berlin) was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany.

Ancestry
Hitler's father Alois Hitler-Schicklgruber was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. The baptismal register did not show the name of his father and Alois initially bore his mother's surname Schicklgruber. In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Maria Anna. Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. In 1876, Alois was legitimated and the baptismal register changed by a priest to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois' father (recorded as "Georg Hitler"). Alois then assumed the surname "Hitler", also spelled Hiedler, Hüttler or ''Huettler. The name is probably based one "one who lives in a hut" (German Hütte'' for hut.)

Nazi official Hans Frank suggested that Alois' father had been employed as a housekeeper by a Jewish family in Graz, and that the family's 19-year-old son Leopold Frankenberger had fathered Alois. No Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period and no record had been produced of Leopold Frankenberger's existence, so historians dismiss the claim that Alois' father was Jewish.

Childhood and education
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria), close to the border with the German Empire. He was christened as "Adolphus Hitler". He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Three of Hitler's siblings; Gustav, Ida and Otto; died in infancy. Also living in the household with Alois' children from his second marriage; Alois Jr. and Angela; When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life. The family returned to Austria