Hitler family Alois Matzelsberger. Hitler remained with Matzelsberger while his wife, Anna, grew sicker and died on 6 April 1883. The next month, on 22 May at a ceremony in Braunau with fellow customs officials as witnesses, Hitler, 45, married Matzelsberger, 21. He then legitimized his son as Alois Hitler Jr., later a Berlin restaurateur. Matzelsberger went to Vienna to give birth to Angela Hitler. When she was still only 23, she acquired a lung disorder and became too ill to function. She was moved to Ranshofen, a small village near Braunau. In 1876, three years after Alois married Anna Glasl-Hörer, he
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer for Contemporary History in Braunau am Inn in the beginning of 2007. Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Egon Ferdinand Ranshofen-Wertheimer (September 4, 1894, in /Braunau am Inn – December 27, 1957, in New York City) was a diplomat, journalist, doctor of laws and state. Egon Ferdinand Ranshofen-Wertheimer was born as the son of the Catholic land owner and member of the Upper Austrian parliament Julius Wertheimer in Ranshofen near Braunau. His family had Jewish roots, so they fled Austria in 1938 because of the growing threat of the Nazi government. During World War I, he was introduced to Marxist ideology and studied in