August Kubizek
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August Kubizek | |
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Born | |
Died | 23 October 1956 Eferding, Austria | (aged 68)
Nationality | Austrian |
Known for | Friend of Adolf Hitler |
Political party | Nazi Party (1942–1945) |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Austria-Hungary |
Service/ | Austro-Hungarian Army |
Years of service | 1914–1918 |
Battles/wars | World War I |
August "Gustl" Friedrich Kubizek (3 August 1888 – 23 October 1956) was an Austrian musical conductor and writer best known for being a close friend of Adolf Hitler, when both were in their late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in his book The Young Hitler I Knew (1955).
Early life
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August was born in
Kubizek and Hitler first met while competing for standing room in the
As the only son of a self-employed
He was immediately accepted into the
From August 1914 until November 1918, Kubizek served as a reservist in Regiment 2 of the
Later contact with Hitler
After seeing Hitler on the front page of the
When the tide began to turn against Hitler, Kubizek, who had avoided politics all his life, became a member of the Nazi Party in 1942 as a gesture of loyalty to his friend.[6]
Later life, imprisonment and memoirs
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In December 1945, Kubizek gathered the collection of keepsakes given to him by Hitler during their youth and concealed them carefully in the basement of his house in Eferding. He was arrested by American forces shortly afterwards and held at Glasenbach, where he was imprisoned and interrogated by the
In 1951, Kubizek, who had rejected other post-war offers for his memoirs, agreed to publish Adolf Hitler, mein Jugendfreund ("Adolf Hitler, My Childhood Friend") through the Leopold Stocker Verlag. The original manuscript, written in 1943 at the behest of Martin Bormann (Kubizek says in his memoirs that Martin Bormann asked him to do so),[10][11] had been only 150 pages long.[12] However, after communications answering questions from the Hitler biographer Franz Jetzinger, his new extended version had 352 pages and included several pictures, many of which showed postcards and sketches given to Kubizek by Hitler when young, between the years 1906 and 1908. The book is divided into three parts and consists of a prologue, 24 chapters and an epilogue.
It caused a stir when it was released in 1953 and was later translated into several languages. In the epilogue, Kubizek wrote, "Even though I, a fundamentally unpolitical individual, had always kept aloof from the political events of the period which ended forever in 1945, nevertheless no power on earth could compel me to deny my friendship with Adolf Hitler."
Kubizek's second wife and widow, Pauline (1906–2001), was credited with having provided the Stocker Verlag with additional photographs for the book's fourth edition in 1975.
He died on 23 October 1956, aged 68, in Linz and is buried in Eferding, Upper Austria.[citation needed]
In popular culture
Kubizek is portrayed by Rupert Grint in "Adolf Hitler: The Artist", a 2017 episode of the British television series Urban Myths, in which Hitler calls him "Gustl".
Works
- Kubizek, A. (1955). The Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend ISBN 978-1848326071
- ISBN 3-7020-0213-8, English translation: Young Hitler, the Story of Our Friendship (1955) & (1976)
See also
References
- ^ The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, Robert Payne, p.45
- ^ "Taufen - Duplikate 1888 - 106/1888 | Linz - St. Matthias (St. Mathias) | Oberösterreich: Rk. Diözese Linz | Österreich | Matricula Online". data.matricula-online.eu. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "Trauungen - Duplikate 1887 - 207/1887 | Linz - St. Matthias (St. Mathias) | Oberösterreich: Rk. Diözese Linz | Österreich | Matricula Online". data.matricula-online.eu. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "Taufen - Duplikate 1846 - 106/1846 | Linz - Stadtpfarre | Oberösterreich: Rk. Diözese Linz | Österreich | Matricula Online". data.matricula-online.eu. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "DigiArchiv of SRA Trebon - ver. 20.05.22". digi.ceskearchivy.cz. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ a b August Kubizek in Adolf Hitler, mein Jugendfreund
- ^ "WIEN".
- ^ Brigitte Hamann in Hitlers Wien, Lehrjahre eines Diktators
- ^ William L. Shirer in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 14) The letter is dated 4 August
- ^ Kubizek August The Young Hitler I Knew.
- ^ herodotus484bc (19 March 2018). "Hitler's Roommate". The Herodotus History Blog. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Brigitte Hamann. Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man, p.55
External links
- The Young Hitler I Knew on Archive.org