Create account Log in Article Talk Read View source View history Adolf Hitler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Hitler" redirects here. For other uses, see Hitler (disambiguation). Navigation Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born Main page Adolf Hitler German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Contents Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party). He was chancellor of Featured content Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from Current events 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and the Random article Holocaust. Donate to Wikipedia Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the German Workers' Party (precursor of the NSDAP) in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup Interaction d'état in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, Help during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler About Wikipedia gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, Community portal antisemitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his Recent changes appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a Contact Wikipedia single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Hitler's aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Toolbox Europe. To this end, his foreign and domestic policies had the aim of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of What links here Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Related changes Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and Upload file North Africa. In 1943, Germany had been forced onto the defensive and suffered a series of Special pages escalating defeats. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his Hitler in 1937 Permanent link long-time partner, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed Chancellor of Germany Page information suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned. Data item In office Hitler's aggressive foreign policy is considered the main cause of the outbreak of World War II in Cite this page 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 Europe. His antisemitic policies and racially motivated ideology resulted in the deaths of at least President Paul von Hindenburg (until 5.5 million Jews, and millions of other people deemed racially inferior. 1934) Print/export Deputy Franz von Papen (1933–1934) Contents Create a book Position vacant 1 Early years Download as PDF Preceded by Kurt von Schleicher 1.1 Ancestry Printable version Succeeded by Joseph Goebbels 1.2 Childhood and education Reichsstatthalter of Prussia 1.3 Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich Languages In office 1.4 World War I 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 Адыгэбзэ 2 Entry into politics Prime Minister Franz von Papen Afrikaans 2.1 Beer Hall Putsch Hermann Göring Alemannisch 2.2 Rebuilding the NSDAP Preceded by Office created አማርኛ 3 Rise to power 3.1 Brüning administration Succeeded by Office abolished Ænglisc 3.2 Appointment as chancellor Führer of Germany ﺍﻟﻌﺭﺑﻳﺔ 3.3 Reichstag fire and March elections Aragonés In office 3.4 Day of Potsdam and the Enabling Act 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 ܪܐ 3.5 Removal of remaining limits Armãneashce Deputy Rudolf Hess (1933–1941) 4 Third Reich Position vacant অসমীয়া 4.1 Economy and culture Asturianu Preceded by Paul von Hindenburg 4.2 Rearmament and new alliances (as President) Avañe'ẽ 5 World War II Az әrbaycanca Succeeded by Karl Dönitz 5.1 Early diplomatic successes (as President) বাংলা 5.1.1 Alliance with Japan Bahasa Banjar Personal details 5.1.2 Austria and Czechoslovakia Bân-lâm-gú Born 20 April 1889 5.2 Start of World War II Basa Banyumasan Braunau am Inn, Austria- 5.3 Path to defeat Hungary Башҡортса 5.4 Defeat and death Беларуская Died 30 April 1945 (aged 56) 5.5 The Holocaust Berlin, Germany Беларуская (тарашкевіца) 6 Leadership style Nationality Austrian citizen until 7 April Bikol Central 7 Legacy 1925[1] Български 8 Religious views German citizen after 25 Boarisch 9 Health February 1932 བོད་ཡིག 10 Family Political party National Socialist German Bosanski 11 Hitler in media Workers' Party (1921–1945) Brezhoneg 12 See also Other political German Workers' Party (1920– Català 13 Footnotes affiliations 1921) Чӑвашла 14 References Spouse(s) Eva Braun Generated with www.html-to-pdf.net Page 1 / 24 Cebuano 14.1 Sources (29–30 April 1945) Česky 15 External links Occupation Politician, soldier, artist, writer Chavacano de Religion See: Religious views of Adolf Zamboanga Early years Hitler Corsu Signature Cymraeg Ancestry Dansk Deutsch Hitler's father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. Military service Diné bizaad Because the baptismal register did not show the name of his father, Alois initially bore his mother's Eesti surname, Schicklgruber. In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois's mother, Maria Anna. After Allegiance German Empire Ελληνικά she died in 1847 and Johann Georg Hiedler in 1856, Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler's Service/branch Reichsheer Emiliàn e rumagnòl brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler.[2] In 1876, Alois was legitimated and the baptismal register Years of 1914–1918 Español changed by a priest before three witnesses to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois's father service Esperanto (recorded as Georg Hitler).[3][4] Upon being legitimised as the son of Georg Hitler at age 39, Alois Rank Gefreiter [4] Estremeñu assumed the surname Hitler, also spelled as Hiedler, Hüttler, or Huettler. Thus, the origin of the Unit 16th Bavarian Reserve Euskara Hitler surname is probably based on "one who lives in a hut" (Standard German Hütte for hut) or on Regiment shepherd" (Standard German hüten for to guard); alternatively, it may be derived from the Slavic Battles/wars World War I" ﻓﺎﺭﺳﯽ [5] Fiji Hindi words Hidlar or Hidlarcek. Awards Iron Cross First Class Føroyskt Nazi official Hans Frank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper for a Iron Cross Second Class Français Jewish family in Graz and that the family's 19-year-old son, Leopold Frankenberger, had fathered Wound Badge Frysk Alois.[6] Because no Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period, and no record of Gaeilge Leopold Frankenberger's existence has been produced,[7] historians dismiss the claim that Alois's father was Jewish.[8][9] Gaelg Gàidhlig Childhood and education Galego Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn located at Salzburger Vorstadt 15, 贛語 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, a town on the border with Bavaria, Germany.[10] He was the fourth of six 한국어 children to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl (1860–1907). Hitler's older siblings—Gustav, Ida, and Otto—died in Hausa infancy.[11] When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany.[12] There he acquired the Հայերեն distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech all of his life.[13][14] ह द [15] In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding (near Linz), and in June 1895, Alois retired to a small landholding Hornjoserbsce at Hafeld, near Lambach, where he farmed and kept bees. Hitler attended school in nearby Fischlham. Hitler Hrvatski became fixated on warfare after finding a picture book about the Franco-Prussian War among his father's Ido belongings.[16][17] Ilokano Bahasa Indonesia The move to Hafeld coincided with the onset of intense father-son conflicts caused by Hitler's refusal to [18] Interlingua conform to the strict discipline of his school. Alois Hitler's farming efforts at Hafeld ended in failure, and in Interlingue 1897 the family moved to Lambach. The eight-year-old Hitler took singing lessons, sang in the church choir, [19] Ирон and even considered becoming a priest. In 1898 the family returned permanently to Leonding. The death of his younger brother, Edmund, from measles on 2 February 1900 deeply affected Hitler. He changed from Íslenska Adolf Hitler as an infant Italiano being confident and outgoing and an excellent student, to a morose, detached, and sullen boy who constantly (c. 1889–1890) [20] .fought with his father and teachers עברית Basa Jawa Alois had made a successful career in the customs bureau and wanted his ಕನ ಡ son to follow in his footsteps.[21] Hitler later dramatised an episode from this period when his father took him ქართული to visit a customs office, depicting it as an event that gave rise to an unforgiving antagonism between father Қазақша and son, who were both strong-willed.[22][23][24] Ignoring his son's desire to attend a classical high school and Kiswahili become an artist, in September 1900 Alois sent Hitler to the Realschule in Linz.[25] (This was the same high Kurdî school that Adolf Eichmann would attend some 17 years later.)[26] Hitler rebelled against this decision, and in Кыргызча Mein Kampf revealed that he did poorly in school, hoping that once his father saw "what little progress I was Ladino making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to my dream".[27] Лезги Like many Austrian Germans, Hitler began to develop German nationalist ideas from a young age.[28] He Latgaļu expressed loyalty only to Germany, despising the declining Habsburg Monarchy and its rule over an Latina ethnically variegated empire.[29][30] Hitler and his friends used the German greeting "Heil", and sang the Latviešu "Deutschlandlied" instead of the Austrian Imperial anthem.[31] Lëtzebuergesch After Alois's sudden death on 3 January 1903, Hitler's performance at school deteriorated.