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Leopold Frankenberger
The , also Frankenreiter thesis, is a thesis which has been contested by historians that claims Adolf Hitler's paternal grandfather was Jewish. Referring to the parentage of Hitler's father Alois Hitler — who was born in 1837 as the illegitimate son of the housemaid Anna Maria Schicklgruber, which has not been clarified with absolute certainty — the Frankenberger thesis asserts that the unknown father of Hitler's father was a Jewish merchant from Graz named (or Frankenreiter) or his son and that Adolf Hitler was therefore a "quarter Jew" in the sense of the Nuremberg Race Laws later imposed by his own regime. Origin The Frankenberger thesis in its final form goes back to Hans Frank's memoirs published under the title ''In the Face of the Gallows''. Frank, who had acted as Hitler's lawyer in the late 1920s and early 1930s, states that he was commissioned by Hitler in 1930 to discreetly investigate the various rumors circulating in the press and public at the time alleging H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origin Theories Of Adolf Hitler
The Hitler family consists of the relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler. The family has long been of interest to historians and genealogists because of the biological uncertainty of Hitler's paternal grandfather, as well as the family's inter-relationships and their psychological effect on Hitler during his childhood and later life. Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname on 7 January 1877 to "Hitler" (derived from that of his deceased stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler), which was the only form of the last name that his son Adolf used.See, e.g., Family trees can also be found in various Hitler biographies; e.g. ; . Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many variations of the family surname "Hitler" almost interchangeably. Some of the common variants were Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler, and Hittler. Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died in 1960 and did not have children, was the last member of the family still bearing the Hitler surname on their tombstone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
