Klara Hitler née Pölzl (12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was an Austrian woman, the wife of Alois Hitler and the mother of Adolf Hitler.
Born Klara Pölzl in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, her father was Johann Baptist Pölzl and her mother was Johanna Hiedler. Either Hiedler's father Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or the latter's brother, Johann Georg Hiedler, was most likely the biological father of her later husband Alois. Moreover, Klara's g...
More
Klara Hitler née Pölzl (12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was an Austrian woman, the wife of Alois Hitler and the mother of Adolf Hitler.
Born Klara Pölzl in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, her father was Johann Baptist Pölzl and her mother was Johanna Hiedler. Either Hiedler's father Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or the latter's brother, Johann Georg Hiedler, was most likely the biological father of her later husband Alois. Moreover, Klara's grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler was her future husband's step-uncle.
Klara came from old peasant stock, was hard-working, energetic, pious, and conscientious. According to Dr. Bloch, who treated her, she was a very quiet, sweet, and affectionate woman.
In 1876, three years after Alois Hitler's first married Anna Glasl-Hörer, her uncle Alois had hired Klara Pölzl, 16-year-old, as a household servant. After the death of his second wife, Franziska Matzelsberger, in 1884, Alois and Klara were married on 7 January 1885 in a brief wedding held...
Less
