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Johanna Pölzl born Hiedler (January 19, 1830 - February 8, 1906), was the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
.

Johanna was born and lived her entire life in the village of Spital near Weitra
Weitra

Weitra is a town in the district of Gm?nd in Lower Austria.It is the oldest beer-producing village in Austria....
 in the Waldviertel
Waldviertel

The Waldviertel is the northwestern region of the Austrian state Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the Czech Republic and to the east by the Manhartsberg , which is the survey point dividing Waldviertel from Weinviertel....
 of Lower Austria
Lower Austria

Lower Austria is one of the nine Bundesland or Bundesl?nder in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria is Sankt P?lten — the most recent capital town in Austria....
. On September 5, 1848, Johanna married Johann Baptist Pölzl, a farmer and son of Johann Pölzl and Juliana (Walli) Pölzl. The couple would eventually have 5 sons and 6 daughters. Of their 11 children, only 2 sons and 3 daughters survived into adulthood.






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Johanna Pölzl born Hiedler (January 19, 1830 - February 8, 1906), was the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
.

Johanna was born and lived her entire life in the village of Spital near Weitra
Weitra

Weitra is a town in the district of Gm?nd in Lower Austria.It is the oldest beer-producing village in Austria....
 in the Waldviertel
Waldviertel

The Waldviertel is the northwestern region of the Austrian state Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the Czech Republic and to the east by the Manhartsberg , which is the survey point dividing Waldviertel from Weinviertel....
 of Lower Austria
Lower Austria

Lower Austria is one of the nine Bundesland or Bundesl?nder in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria is Sankt P?lten — the most recent capital town in Austria....
. On September 5, 1848, Johanna married Johann Baptist Pölzl, a farmer and son of Johann Pölzl and Juliana (Walli) Pölzl. The couple would eventually have 5 sons and 6 daughters. Of their 11 children, only 2 sons and 3 daughters survived into adulthood. Their seventh child and third daughter, Klara
Klara Hitler

Klara Hitler, born Klara P?lzl , was the mother of Adolf Hitler by her husband Alois Hitler....
, was born on their farm in Spital on August 12, 1860.

On September 17, 1888, Johanna was orphaned when both her parents, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler

Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, also known as Johann Nepomuk H?ttler , was a maternal great-grandfather and possibly also the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler....
 and Eva Maria (Decker) Hiedler, died. Her daughter Klara would eventually become the 3rd wife of Alois Hiedler
Alois Hitler

Alois Hitler was the father of Adolf Hitler....
 [changed c.1876 from Schicklgruber] (later known as Alois Hitler, after at the age of forty, deciding on his stepfathers name, Hiedler, and the spelling was later changed by a clerk to Hitler). Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Schicklgruber
Maria Schicklgruber

Maria Anna Schicklgruber was Adolf Hitler's paternal grandmother....
, who had married Johanna's paternal uncle, Johann Georg Hiedler
Johann Georg Hiedler

Johann Georg Hiedler was born to Martin Hiedler and Anna Maria Goschl . He was considered the officially accepted paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler by the Third Reich....
, on May 10, 1842. Alois would claim in later life that Johann Georg Hiedler was not his stepfather, but in fact his biological father and was officially declared his legitimate son in 1876, but this claim was met with great debate among historians as to Alois Hitler's actual paternity.

Together, Klara and Alois had 6 children. The fourth of those six children, was Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889, at 6.30pm). Only one other of Klara's children, the youngest one named Paula
Paula Hitler

Paula Hitler was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara P?lzl. Paula was born in Hafeld, Austria, and was the only full sibling of Adolf Hitler to survive into adulthood....
, survived into adulthood. Klara's husband, Alois, also had two other children, Alois Junior
Alois Hitler, Jr.

Alois Hitler, Jr., born Alois Matzelsberger , was the son of Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger and the half-brother of Adolf Hitler....
 and Angela
Angela Hitler

Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch , first married to Leo Raubal, Sr., was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler.Angela Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, the second child of Alois Hitler and his second wife, Franziska Matzelberger....
, from his second marriage.

Literature:


Marc Vermeeren. "De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889-1907 en zijn familie en voorouders". Soesterberg, 2007, 420 blz. Uitgeverij Aspekt. ISBN = 90-5911-606-2.