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Klara Hitler (''née'' Pölzl; 12 August 1860 – 21 December 1907) was the mother of German politician and leader of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler. ==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. 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.〔 In 1876, 16-year-old Klara was hired as a household servant by her relative Alois Hitler, three years after his first marriage to Anna Glasl-Hörer. Alois' father was presumably either Klara's grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother Johann Georg Hiedler (who was officially, although posthumously, accepted as the father). Thus Klara was, respectively, Alois' half-niece, or first cousin once removed. 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. 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 1886–87. A third child, Otto, was born and died in 1887. A fourth son, Adolf, was born 20 April 1889. In 1892, Klara Hitler and her family took the train to Passau, where they settled down for the next two years.〔Anna Rosmus: Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015〕 Edmund was born there on 24 March 1894. Paula followed on 21 January 1896. Edmund died of measles on 28 February 1900, at the age of five.〔Vermeeren, Mar, ''De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889-1907 en zijn familie en voorouders'', Soesterberg, 2007, Uitgeverij Aspekt, ISBN 978-90-5911-606-1 (Note: source carried forward and only presumed reliable)〕 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 whom, 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.〔 She was also a devout Roman Catholic and attended church regularly with her children.〔"() was completely devoted to the faith and teachings of Catholicism..." Smith, p. 42〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Klara Hitler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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