Johanna Hiedler

Johanna Pölzl born Johanna Hiedler (January 19, 1830 − February 8, 1906), is the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler.

Johanna was born and lived her entire life in the village of Spital. On September 5, 1848, Johanna married Johann Baptist Pölzl, and one of the chlidren from that union was a daughter, Klara, born on August 12, 1860.

On September 17, 1888, Johanna was orphaned when both her parents, Johann von Nepomuk Hiedler and Eva Maria (Decker) Hiedler, died. Her daughter Klara would eventually become the 3rd wife of Alois Heidler [changed c.1877 from Schicklgruber] (later known as Alois Hitler, after at the age of forty, deciding on his grandfather's name, Heidler, and the spelling was later changed by a clerk to Hitler). Alois's mother, Maria Schicklgruber, had married Johanna's paternal uncle,Johann Georg Hiedler, on May 10, 1842.

Together, Klara and Alois had 6 children. The fourth of those six children, was Adolf Hitler (born April 20th 1889, at 6.30pm). Only one other of Klara's children, the youngest one named Paula, survied into adulthood. Klara's husband, Alois, also had two other children, Alois Junior and Angela, from his second marriage.