Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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brother of Adolf Hitler's grandfather
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About Johann Nepomuk Hiedler
- Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, also known as Johann Nepomuk Hüttler (19 March 1807 – 17 September 1888), was a maternal great-grandfather and possibly also the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.Johann Nepomuk was named after the Bohemian Saint Johann von Nepomuk.
- Some view this name as evidence that Nepomuk and subsequently his great-grandson Adolf Hitler had Czech ancestry.
- However, Johann von Pomuk/Johann Nepomuk, was an important saint for Bohemians of both German and Czech ethnicity.
- Nepomuk thus only indicates ties to Bohemia and central Europe. Nepomuk became a relatively prosperous farmer and was married to Eva Maria Decker (1792–1873) who was fifteen years his senior.
- On 19 January 1830, Eva Hiedler gave birth to Johanna.
- Legally, he was the step-uncle of Alois Schicklgruber (later Alois Hitler), the stepson of his brother Johann Georg Hiedler, a wandering miller. For reasons unknown, Johann Nepomuk took in Alois when he was a boy and raised him.
- It is possible that he was, in fact, Alois' natural father but could not acknowledge this publicly due to his marriage.
- Another, and perhaps simpler, explanation for this kindness is that Nepomuk took pity on the ten-year-old Alois and took him in.
- Alois was, after all, the stepson of his brother Johann Georg, and Nepomuk may have known that in fact Alois was Johann Georg's natural child.
- After the death of Alois' mother Maria, it could hardly have been a suitable life for a ten-year old child to be raised by an itinerant miller. Nepomuk left Alois a considerable portion of his life savings.
- Nepomuk's granddaughter, Klara, had a longstanding affair with Alois before marrying him in 1885 after the death of his second wife.
- In 1889 she gave birth to Adolf Hitler.
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