Both parents came from Waldviertel a rural area in Austria, northwest of Vienna, close from what is known today as Czechoslovakia. Moravian blood was in his line according to one family member. In the year 1650 a direct ancestor, on his mother side was called Georg Hiedler. In June 7, 1837 in the village of Strones an unwed woman of age forty two gave birth to a baby boy, his father. The unwed mother's name was Maria Anna Schicklgruber.
She named he illegitimate son, Alois Schicklgruber and registered him in Dollersheim. There was no name placed in the fathers identity space in the register form.
The mystery today remains unsolved. Rumors has it that he could have been a neighborhood man, or that Maria Anna had been impregnated by the young son of a wealthy Jew Frankenbeger or maybe Frankenreither in which Maria Anna had been a domesticated employed of this Jewish household.
Maria Anna married Johann Georg Hiedler an itinerant worker from Spital when Alois was near the age of five. But Alois continue to have the family name. Maria died five years later and her husband abandoned Alois. Johann Nepomuk, Hiedler's brother, took Alois into his farmhouse, house number 36 in the isolated village of Spital. The new home was intolerable for Alois and he ran away at the age of thirteen. Working his way to Vienna, there he became an apprentices to a shoemaker. Withing 5 years after learning the trade he enlisted in the frontier guard. Alois was ambitious and worked himself up to inspector of customs at Braunau on the Inn River just across Germany.
There was no son to carry on the last name name of Hiedler, thought Johann Nepomuk Hiedler who was so proud of Alois achievements. Johann, his son-in law- and other two relatives travel to the town of Weitra were they all testified falsely before the local notary that there was an error in the spelling of Hiedler's brother's name and that the correct spelling his last
name as "Hitler". They added he had spoken to them about before his death in 1857 as his last and unchangeable will. He also had mentioned that he had father an illegitimate son named Alois, and wanted him to be his legitimate son and heir. This even took place in June 6, 1876.
The very next day the fourth of them traveled to Dollersheim where the original birth records of Alois were registered. Visiting the parish priest who carefully examined the documents and seeing that documents were signed and witnessed by three persons the elderly priest affirm that "from the parish marriage book a man named Georg Hiedler had indeed married a girl named Schicklgruber in 1842.
Agreeing to alter the birth register, he changed it from illegitimate to legitimate, crossed out the name of Schicklgruber, (but) in the space for the child's name he (failed) to write in another name. In the last space, in extremely cramped writing, he wrote: "It's confirmed by the undersigned that Georg Hitler whose name is here entered as (Father) being well known to the undersigned, did accept paternity of the child Aloys, according to the statements of the child's mother and did desire his name to be entered in the register of baptisms of this parish". He himself signed the names of the three witnesses and each, in turn, made his mark, a cross. The named he wrote was Aloys instead of Alois.
The amendments on the register were neither dated nor signed. It could have been that the parish priest had motives. The village rumor that Alois was his natural son. Maybe Hiedler wanted to legitimizer Alois as insurance for his career. A strong motive if his father had been a Jew. This suggestion came from Franz Jetzinger, author of the generally accurate book on Hitler's youth.
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