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Johann Georg Hiedler

Johann Georg Hiedler

Male 1792 - 1857  (64 years)    Has 20 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Johann Georg Hiedler 
    Birth 28 Feb 1792  Spital, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1857 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Person ID I652117  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009 

    Father Martin Hiedler,   b. 17 Nov 1762, Walterschlag, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jan 1829, Spital, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Anna Maria Göschl,   b. 23 Aug 1760, Spital, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1854, Spital, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years) 
    Marriage 1791  Spital, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F286179  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 NN   d. 1824-1825 
    Marriage 1824 
    Family ID F286192  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009 

    Family 2 Maria Anna Schicklgruber,   b. 17 Apr 1795, Strones, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1847, Strones, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage 1842 
    Family ID F286172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009 

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  • Notes 
    • He was considered the officially accepted grandfather of Adolf Hitler by the Third Reich . Whether he was in fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather is considered unknown by modern historians.
      He made his living as a wandering journeyman miller . He married his first wife in 1824 but she died in childbirth five months later. In 1842, he married Maria Anna Schicklgruber and became the legal stepfather to her five year old son, Alois , an illegitimate child who it was later claimed Johann had fathered prior to his marriage to Schicklgruber, although Alois had been declared illegitimate on his birth certificate and baptism papers, and the claim that Johann Hiedler was the true father was never made, even after their marriage. In 1876, almost twenty years after his death, Alois was legally declared to have been Johann Georg's son.
      Accordingly, Johann Georg Hiedler is one of three people most cited by modern historians as having possibly been the actual grandfather of Adolf Hitler . The other two are Johann Nepomuk Hiedler , the younger brother of Johann Georg, and a Graz Jew by the name of Frankenberger.
      In the 1950s, this third possibility was popular among historians, but modern historians now think it highly unlikely as the Jews were expelled from Graz in the fifteenth century and were not permitted to return until the 1860s, several decades after Alois' birth.



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