Angela Hitler
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Angela Hitler
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| Born |
Angela Franziska Johanna Hitler 28 July 1883 Braunau, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 30 October 1949 (aged 66) Hanover, West Germany |
| Nationality | Austro-Hungarian, Austrian |
| Other names | Angela Raubal Angela Hammitzsch |
| Spouse(s) | Leo Raubal (1903–1910; his death) Martin Hammitzsch (1936–1945; his death) |
| Children |
Leo Rudolf Raubal Geli Raubal Elfriede (Friedl) Raubal |
| Parent(s) |
Alois Hitler, Sr. |
| Relatives |
Adolf Hitler (half-brother) Alois Hitler, Jr. (brother) Gustav Hitler (half-brother) Ida Hitler (half-sister) Otto Hitler(half-brother) Edmund Hitler (half-brother) Paula Hitler (half-sister) |
Alois Hitler, Sr.
Franziska Matzelsberger
Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch (née Hitler; 28 July 1883 – 30 October 1949) was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. By her first husband, Leo Raubal, Sr., she was the mother of Geli Raubal.
Angela Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria-Hungary, the second child of Alois Hitler, Sr. and his second wife, Franziska Matzelsberger. Her mother died the following year. She and her brother Alois Hitler, Jr. were brought up by their father and his third wife Klara Pölzl. Her half-brother Adolf Hitler was born six years after her, and they grew very close. She is the only one of his siblings mentioned in Mein Kampf.
Angela's father died in 1903 and her stepmother died in 1907, leaving a small inheritance. On 14 September 1903 she married Leo Raubal (11 June 1879 - 10 August 1910), a junior tax inspector, and gave birth to a son, Leo on 12 October 1906. On 4 June 1908 Angela gave birth to Geli and in 1910 to a second daughter, Elfriede (Elfriede Maria Hochegger, 10 January 1910 - 24 September 1993). Her husband died in 1910.
She moved to Vienna after World War I. Walter Langer's wartime report The Mind of Adolf Hitler, an OSS profile of the Hitler family, paints a positive picture of Angela at this period, describing her as "rather a decent and industrious person". It says she became manager of Mensa Academia Judaica, a boarding house for Jewish students, where she once defended those in her care against anti-Semitic rioters. According to Langer, "Some of our informants knew her during this time and report that in the student riots Angela defended the Jewish students from attack and on several occasions beat the Aryan students off the steps of the dining hall with a club. She is a rather large, strong peasant type of person who is well able to take an active part."
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