Angela Hitler was born in
Braunau am Inn,
Austria-Hungary, the second child of
Alois Hitler with his second wife, Franziska Matzelsberger. Her mother died the following year. She and her brother Alois Hitler Jr. were brought up by their father and his third wife
Klara Pölzl. Her half-brother,
Adolf Hitler, was born six years after her, and they grew very close. She is the only one of his siblings mentioned in
Mein Kampf. Angela's father died in 1903, and her stepmother died in 1907, leaving a small inheritance. On 14 September 1903, she married Leo Raubal (11 June 1879 – 10 August 1910), a junior tax inspector, and gave birth to a son,
Leo on 12 October 1906. On 4 June 1908, Angela gave birth to
Geli and in 1910 to a second daughter, Elfriede (Elfriede Maria Hochegger, 10 January 1910 – 24 September 1993). Her husband died of
tuberculosis in 1910.
Widow She moved to Vienna following
World War I.
Walter Langer's wartime report
The Mind of Adolf Hitler, an
OSS profile of the Hitler family, paints a positive picture of Angela at this period, describing her as "rather a decent and industrious person". It says she became manager of Mensa Academia Judaica, a boarding house for Jewish students, where she once defended those in her care against
anti-Semitic rioters. According to Langer: Angela had heard nothing from Adolf for a decade when he re-established contact with her in 1919. In 1924, Adolf was confined in
Landsberg; Angela made the trip from Vienna to visit him. In 1928, she and Geli moved to the
Haus Wachenfeld at
Obersalzberg near
Berchtesgaden, where she became his housekeeper and later was put in charge of the household at Hitler's expanded retreat. Geli died by suicide in 1931. Angela continued to work for her half-brother following Geli's death, but she strongly disapproved of Adolf's relationship with
Eva Braun. She eventually left Berchtesgaden as a result and moved to Dresden.
Remarriage On 18 February 1936, Angela married architect Professor Martin Hammitzsch (22 May 1878 – 12 May 1945), who designed the
Yenidze cigarette factory in
Dresden and who later became the director of the State School of Building Construction in that city. On 26 June 1936, the couple returned to
Passau. When they visited the house at the
Inn river where Angela had lived as a child, they left an entry in the visitors' book, which the local newspaper reported. Adolf Hitler apparently disapproved of the marriage, and referred to his half-sister as Frau Hammitzsch. Her second husband died by suicide shortly after the defeat of Germany.
Post-war Adolf apparently had a low opinion of the intelligence of both his sisters, calling them "stupid geese". Nevertheless, she spoke very highly of him, even after the war, and claimed that neither her half brother nor she had known anything about
the Holocaust. Angela Hitler died of a stroke on 30 October 1949 in
Hanover. ==Family==