The surname of Adolf Hitler has been worrying professional historians for several decades, just interested, lovers of political battles and debates, as well as many others. Perhaps it would not be an exaggeration to say that this topic has already gone beyond just curious information. Like Adolf Hitler himself, the real name of this man has long been the object of speculation of various forces. Some try to find Jewish roots in him, building after this theories about secret cooperation, about a thought-out initial conspiracy. For others, Hitler's real surname is an occasion to denigrate the whole kind of the future Fuhrer for several generations, to search for physical, mental deviations from relatives or simply digging in dirty linen. However, researchers have long put an end to this issue. Hitler's real name is already known, and if you look, there are no significant reasons for discussion. All existing disputes are more far-fetched. Let's try to figure it out.
What is the real surname of Hitler?
The future leader of the Nazi party was born on April 20 in 1889. His father, Alois Hitler, was first a shoemaker and later a civil servant. By the way, the father’s attempt to force his son to also become a state clerk, not least, instilled in the latter a dislike of all kinds of conventions and generally strict service. In this regard, the fact that Alois lived with the name Shiklgruber until 1876 is interesting.
This leads to the widespread belief that this is Hitler's real name. However, it is not. The fact is that the father of the future Fuhrer was an illegitimate child and up to 39 years old was forced to bear the name of his mother, since she was not married at that time, and the father was not legally established. Five years after the birth of Alois, his mother Maria Anna Schiklgruber marries the poor miller Johann Hitler. Biography of the Fuhrer believe that his probable grandfather was one of the Hitler brothers.
In 1876, witnesses confirmed that Johann Hitler was the real father of Alois, which enabled the man to change his mother's surname to his father's surname.
As for Adolf, this change occurred thirteen years before his birth, so he was not a single day in his life Schicklgruber. But such an error is very common, moreover, it even crept into some quite serious sources at one time. In his family there really were families with such a surname, however, it has completely German roots. So calling Hitler Shiklgruber is just as legitimate as assigning him any other last name that his distant and close relatives once wore. As far as biographers could trace, the ancestors of Adolf Hitler were peasants on both the paternal and the maternal side. Another interesting incident with the surname “Hitler” is that it was recorded by the priests for centuries. For this reason, even close relatives had a slightly different spelling in the documents, and as a result, slightly different sounds of their own names: Gidler, Hitler, Gudler and so on.