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Born	Klara Pölzl (1860-08-12)12 August 1860 Spital, Weitra, Waldviertel, Austrian Empire
Died	21 December 1907(1907-12-21) (aged 47) Linz, Austria-Hungary
Cause of death	Breast cancer
Resting place	Town Cemetery, Leonding
Nationality	Austrian
Known for	Mother of Adolf Hitler
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Spouse(s)	Alois Hitler, Sr. (m. 1885; died 1903)
Children	Gustav Hitler Ida Hitler Otto Hitler Adolf Hitler Edmund Hitler Paula Hitler Stepchildren: Alois Hitler, Jr. Angela Hitler Johann Baptist Pölzl Johanna Hiedler
Relatives	Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (maternal great-grandfather)

Klara Hitler (née Pölzl; 12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was the mother of German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler.^[2]

Contents

• 1 Family background and marriage
• 2 Later life and death
• 3 Removal of tombstone
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 Sources

Family background and marriage

Born in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, Waldviertel, her father was Johann Baptist Pölzl and her mother was Johanna Hiedler. Either Johanna Hiedler's father Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother Johann Georg Hiedler (who is presumed and accepted as the father) was the biological father of Klara Hiedler's husband, Alois Hitler, Sr.. Therefore, Klara and Alois were most likely first cousins once removed.
Klara came from old peasant stock, was hard-working, energetic, pious, and conscientious. According to the family physician, Dr. Eduard Bloch, she was a very quiet, sweet, and affectionate woman.^[1]
In 1876, three years after Alois Hitler's first marriage to Anna Glasl-Hörer, Alois hired 16-year-old Klara as a household servant. After the death of his second wife — Franziska Matzelsberger — in 1884, Alois and Klara began seeing each other, and were married on 7 January 1885 in a brief ceremony held early that morning at Hitler's rented rooms on the top floor of the Pommer Inn in Braunau.^[3] Alois then went to work for the day at his job as a customs official.
Their first son, Gustav, was born four months later, on 15 May 1885. Ida followed on 23 September 1886. Both infants died of diphtheria during the winter of 1886-1887. A third child, Otto, was born and died in 1887. A fourth son, Adolf, was born 20 April 1889, followed by Edmund on 24 March 1894 and Paula on 21 January 1896. Edmund died of measles on 28 February 1900, at the age of five.^[4] Of her six children with Alois, only Adolf and Paula survived to adulthood.
Klara Hitler's adult life was spent keeping house and raising children, for which, according to Smith, Alois had little understanding or interest. She was very devoted to her children and, according to William Patrick Hitler, was a typical stepmother to her stepchildren, Alois, Jr. and Angela.^[1]
She was also a devout Roman Catholic and attended church regularly with her children.^[5]

Later life and death

Klara Hitler, most likely in the 1890s