Alois Hitler, Jr.
Alois Hitler, Jr.
Born	January 13, 1882 Austria
Died	May 20, 1956 Hamburg, Germany
Occupation	Relative
Spouse	Bridget Dowling
Parents	Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger
Children	Heinz Hitler William Patrick Hitler

Alois Hitler, Jr., born Alois Matzelberger (January 13, 1882 – May 20, 1956 in Hamburg), was the son of Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger and the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. Alois Hitler Jr This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Austria. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... Kinship is a biological and/or familial relationship between two organisms. ... Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler (alternative Brigid) (1891-1969) was Adolf Hitlers sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr. ... This article is about Adolf Hitlers father. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hamburg from above Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ... This article is about Adolf Hitlers father. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

He was born while his father was still married to his first wife, Anna. After Anna died and his parents were married, Alois was legitimised and his name was changed to Alois Hitler, Jr. He was soon joined by a sister, Angela Hitler. When he was two years old his mother died and his father married Klara Pölzl, a niece with whom he had a long-standing affair while also cheating on his first wife with Franziska. Adolf Hitler with his halfsister Angela Angela Raubal Hamitsch, born Angela Hitler (July 28, 1883 - October 30, 1949), was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. ... Klara Hitler Klara Hitler, born Klara Pölzl (August 12, 1860 - December 21, 1907), was the mother of Adolf Hitler. ...

Alois left home at the age of fourteen due to increasingly violent arguments with his father and apparently strained relations with his step-mother Klara. After working as an apprentice waiter he was arrested for theft and served a five-month sentence in 1900, followed by an eight-month sentence in 1902. He moved to Dublin where he got a job as a waiter at the Shelbourne Hotel. In 1909 he met Bridget Dowling at the Dublin Horse Show and led her to believe he was a wealthy hotelier on a European tour. They eloped to London and married on June 3, 1910. William Dowling, Bridget's father, threatened to have Alois arrested for kidnapping but Bridget dissuaded him. 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler (alternative Brigid) (1891-1969) was Adolf Hitlers sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...

The couple settled in Liverpool where their son William Patrick Hitler was born in 1911. The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street. Ironically, the house was destroyed in the last German air-raid on Liverpool on January 10, 1942, and has remained a bomb site ever since. Liverpool, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... William Patrick Hitler (later Stuart-Houston) (March 12, 1911 – July 1987), nicknamed Willy, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler and his life, and claim to fame, has become interwoven with that of his uncle. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Bridget Dowling's memoirs claim Adolf Hitler lived with them in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913 while he was on the run for dodging the draft in his native Austria-Hungary but most historians dismiss this story as a fiction invented to make Bridget's book more appealing to publishers. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other uses, see Conscript (disambiguation). ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ...

Alois attempted to make money by running a small restaurant in Dale Street, a boarding house on Parliament Street and a hotel on Mount Pleasant, all of which failed.

Finally, he left his family behind in May 1914 and he returned alone to the German Empire to establish himself in the safety-razor business. World War I broke out soon after, stranding Alois in Germany and making it impossible for his wife and son to join him. He married another woman named Hedwig Heidemann in 1916 and after the war had a third party inform Bridget he was dead. Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: Gott mit Uns (German: God with us”) Anthem: Heil dir im Siegerkranz (unofficial) Territory of the German Empire in 1914, prior to World War I Capital Berlin Language(s) Official: German Unofficial minority languages: Polish (Posen, Lower Silesia,Upper Silesia, Masuria) French (Alsace-Lorraine) Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor  - 1871... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

His ruse was discovered by the German authorities and Alois was prosecuted for bigamy in 1924 but acquitted due to Bridget's intervention on his behalf. Polygamy, literally many marriages in ancient Greek, is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

William Patrick stayed with Alois and his new family during his early trips to Weimar Republic Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1934 Alois established a restaurant in Berlin which became a popular drinking hole for Stormtroopers. He managed to keep the restaurant open through the duration of World War II. At the end of the war he was arrested by the British but released when it became clear he had played no role in his brother's regime. Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen The Länder of Germany during the Weimar Republic, with the Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) as the largest Capital Berlin Language(s) German Government Republic President  - 1919-1925 Friedrich Ebert  - 1925-1933 Paul von Hindenburg Chancellor  - 1919 Philipp Scheidemann  - 1933 Adolf Hitler... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1930s (years from 1930-1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm Division, usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict...

His son from his second wife, Heinz Hitler, died in prison in 1942 after being captured on the eastern front during World War II. Heinz Hitler Heinrich Hitler (nickname Heinz) (born 1923, died 1942) was the son of Alois Hitler, Jr. ... Combatants Soviet Union1 Poland Germany1 Italy (to 1943) Romania Finland (to 1944) Hungary Commanders Aleksei Antonov Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Kirill Meretskov Ivan Petrov Alexander Rodimtsev Konstantin Rokossovsky Pavel Rotmistrov Semyon Timoshenko Fyodor Tolbukhin Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Kliment Voroshilov Andrei Yeremenko Matvei Zakharov Georgy Zhukov Fedor von Bock Ernst...

Following the war Alois was briefly involved with a right-wing political party. In the 1950s he made money signing photographs of his brother and selling them to tourists. // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ...

Alois and Adolf were never close, apparently due to Alois' resentment of Adolf stemming from childhood. He is not mentioned in Hitler's Mein Kampf and they rarely (if ever) met after Adolf's rise to power. Cover of Mein Kampf Volume 1 (First Edition) Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle) is the signature work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ...

External link

• Hitler: His Irish Relatives from Irish Roots magazine.