What happened to all the people with the last name of Hitler?

Did they all change their names after Adolph Hitler gave them a bad name? Or was the name Hitler very rare, and I just haven't heard of anyone named Hitler?

What happened to all the people with the last name of Hitler?
I had heard that Hitler has a nephew or something still living today (possible Hitler's only living relative) and he actually said he would not have children so that Hitler's blood would not go on existing.
Reply:I BELIEVE that Hitler had a small family to begin with, and they did, actually, change their name. I don't know where I heard it but I'm pretty sure I remember that correctly. At least part of the family did. I don't know if anyone would actually keep the name "Hitler" considering all the negative conotations the name has.
Reply:The majority of Germans with a similar surname actually changed their name by "depol" in order to avoid violent recriminations and public shame. It remains a popular name for aggressive dogs such as Pittbuls and Rotweiliers, particularly amongst the skinhead community, and appropriately so.
Reply:Actually, if you do a search for the name on www.ancestry.com with a birth year of 1945, with no death date, you will find ten pages of people with the surname Hitler.
Reply:Actually there are still people in Austria, Hitler's homeland, with the last name Hitler. It was a moderately common name before the war.
Reply:Hitler was originally born "Shicklegruber" however he inhereted his grandfather's last name when he was around 30
Reply:Yes, but it usually comes in its original German, Heidler.
Reply:interesting question i dont know the answer but let me know if you ever do
Reply:Some did. Ever hear of Willy Hitler? Until April I never had. But at that time I learned a little something about Hitler's family. William Patrick Hitler was the son of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois Jr.





See Hitler's father, Alois Sr, was married three times. Anna Glassl, his first wife, Franziska Matzelberger, his second, and Klara P枚lzl, his third wife. Alois and Anna apparently had no kids and to make matters worse, he cheated on her with Franziska. And quite possibly with Klara who at the age of 16 became his and Anna's household servant not to mention being Alois's half-niece. He and Franziska had Alois Jr. out of wedlock in 1882. At this time he an Anna were seperated and she had begun the process of divorce, a process that may or may not have been completed when she died in 1883. Alois Jr was given his mother's surname until after his parents were married in 1883 when Alois Sr. legitamized his son as his heir, thus making him Alois Hitler Jr. Alois Sr. and Franziska also had one other child, Angela.





Now it's intresting to note that Franziska demanded Alois get rid of Klara once they were married. Quite possibly this is because Alois was cheating on Anna not only with her but with Klara as well and Franziska knew it. Which is why she wanted Klara gone.





But after Franziska's death in 1884 Alois was free to see Klara all he wanted and the two were married in 1885. They had six kids together, Gustav (born May 1885, four months after his parents married), Ida (1886), Otto (1887), Adolf (1889), Edmund (1894), and Paula (1896). Gustav and Ida both died December 1886 of diptheria. Otto died 1887, causes unknown. Edmund died in 1900 of the measles. That left only Hitler and his baby sister as Alois and Klara's children, both of whom lived to adulthood like their half-siblings.





Alois Sr died in 1903. Hitler's mother died in 1907.





Now then, as already stated, Alois Jr was the father of Willy Hitler. He married Bridget Dowling, an Irish woman, in London in June 1910. Willy was born March 1911. Then came WWI and Alois was seperated from his wife and son. Appears he was a bit like his father, only maybe a little worse. He married Hedwig Heidemann in 1916 and sent someone to Bridget with the false news of his death. With Hedwig he had another son Heinrich "Heinz" Hitler . But after the war the German government learned what happened and Alois was put on trial for bigamy, though ironically Bridget had him aquited. She also got a legal divorce from him, which is again ironic as she was a devote Roman Cathloic and did not believe in divorce.





Willy and Heinz couldn't have been more different, nor Hitler's attitude towards the two been so. Hitler favored Heinz, who became a Nazi and served in the German Army on the Eastern Front. He'd be captured by the Soviets in '42 and die in a POW camp near Moscow. Again, Heinz was Hitler's favorite and he didn't want him on the front lines because he didn't want him to die. Willy on the hand he refered to as his loathsome nephew. He never became a Nazi. In '33 he tried returning to Germany to capitalize on his uncle's new found power. This resulted in a job at a bank and later as a automotive dealer. A British citizen Hitler asked him in '38 to give up his citizenship to accept a high-ranking job, which Willy feared was actually a trap (and may have been since Willy did try getting better jobs from his uncle through blackmail). So Willy returned to London and posted an article in a local paper on why he hated Hitler. In '39 he and his mother came to the US where he continued to denounce Hitler. Eventually during the war he was allowed to join the Navy, after the FBI decided he really wasn't a Nazi spy, in the fight against his uncle.





Willy survived the war and changed his name after it out of fear of what people would do to a Hitler. A justified fear at that as people were unlikely to trust anyone named Hitler. Willy Hitler became William Patrick Stuart-Houston. One of his sons, Howard, became an IRS agent. Another, Alex, became a social worker.





What about Hitler's sisters Angela and Paula?





Angela was married twice, first to a Leo Raubal with whom she had three kids (Leo Jr, Angelika Maria "Geli," and Elfriede). Leo Sr. died in 1910, leaving his wife to raise their kids alone. After WWI she ran a boarding house for Jewish students in Vienna, defending her boarders against anti-semtics. In '28 she and Geli moved to Obersalzberg where they became maids to her half-brother (with whome she'd renewed relations in 1919) and later he made them maids at his Brechtesgaden retreat. This may have been a bad thing for Geli who may have been made her half-uncle's mistress prior to Eva Braun. She supposedly commited suicide in '31, but there's questions as to whether or not it really was suicide or murder as she is said to have used Hitler's personal pistol, a gun he rarely did not have on his person. Not to mention in the days prior to her death the two supposedly had many heated arguements. Angela herself eventually moved to Dressden and married a Martin Hammitzsch, though her brother did not attend the wedding having apparently stopped talking to her. He did, however, re-establish contact with her after the start of the war and moved her back to Brechtesgaden after the bombing of Dressden to prevent her capture by the Soviets. She remained loyal to her brother after the war, claiming neither of them had none about the concentration camps and that had he known about them he would have put an end to them. Angela Hitler Hammitzsch died in 1949.





Paula had become a secretary in Vienna, and was reunited with her brother in 1920. In 1930, after the insurance company she was working for fired her when it became known who her brother was, Hitler began to support her finacally. Something he'd continue to do until his death. At her brother's request she took the surname of Wolf (which had been his nickname for her when they were kids), probably so she could get work without her employer's being likely to fire her or probably so she couldn't be used to get to him (he did apparently adore his baby sister and didn't want to see her harmed or used in any way). At the end of the war, like her half sister she was living in Brechtesgaden. She was captured by US intelligence in May of '45 and grilled about her brother and their relationship. Like Angela she was fairly loyal to her big brother and could not believe he'd had anything to do with the holocaust. After she was released she moved back to Vienna then in '52 she moved back to Brechtesgaden where she would remain for the rest of her life. She lived under the name of Paula Wolff. Paula Wolff died in 1960 having never married nor having any kids.