Klara hitler biography
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Klara Hitler
Date of Birth
August 12,
Date of Death
December 21,
Cause of Death
Breast cancer
Klara Hitler, born Klara Pölzl, was the third wife of Alois Hitler and the mother of Adolf Hitler.
Biography[]
Klara Pölzl was born on August 12, , in Austria. Klara married her much older cousin Alois Hitler in , and they had six children together: Gustav, Otto, Ida, Adolf, Edmund and Paula, although only Adolf and Paula lived to adulthood. Adolf was super attached to his mother, who worried over him and his health excessively. Klara's husband died in , and she did not remarry.
When Adolf was 18, he said a very sad goodbye to his mother and went to Vienna to take the entrance exam for art school; he failed. Soon after, he had to return home. Klara was sick with breast cancer, and her health was rapidly deteriorating. Adolf stayed by her side, and when she eventually died later that year, Eduard Bloch, the family doctor, said he had never seen someone so ov
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Klara Hitler
Mother of Adolf Hitler (–)
Klara Hitler (néePölzl; 12 August – 21 December ) was the mother of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from to According to the family physician, Eduard Bloch, she was a quiet, sweet, and affectionate person.[1] In , Adolf Hitler honored his mother by naming a street in Passau after her.[2]
Family background and marriage
[edit]Klara was born in the Austrian Empire village of Weitra to Johann Baptist Pölzl and Johanna Hiedler. In , year-old Klara was hired as a household servant by her relative Alois Hitler, three years after his first marriage to Anna Glasl-Hörer. Although Alois's biological father is unknown, after his mother, Maria Schicklgruber, married Johann Georg Hiedler, Alois was officially designated as Hiedler's son. Klara's mother was Hiedler's niece, making Klara and Alois first cousins once removed.
Alois's second wife, Franziska Matzelsberger, died in Klara and Alois married on 7 January in a
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Spartacus Educational
Primary Sources
(1) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf ()
My mother, to be sure, felt obliged to continue my education in accordance with my father's wish; in other words, to have me study for the civil servant's career. inom, for my part, was more than ever determined absolutely not to undertake this career.
In proportion as my schooling departed from my ideal in subject matter and curriculum, inom became more indifferent at heart. Then suddenly an illness came to my help and in a few weeks decided my future and the eternal domestic quarrel.
As a result of my serious lung ailment, a physician advised my mother in most urgent terms never to send me into an office. My attendance at the Realschule had furthermore to be interrupted for at least a year.
The goal for which inom had so long silently yearned, for which inom had always fought, had through this event suddenly become reality almost of its own accord.
Concerned over my illness, my mother finally consented to