Geli raubal
the history of Geli Raubal
the niece of Adolf Hitler.
Angela Maria “Geli” Raubal was born on June 4th 1908 in Linz Austria as the daughter of the tax office official Leo Raubal (1879-1910), a native Czech, and his wife Angela Franszka Johanna (1883-1949), born Hitler (a half sister of Adolf) where she was raised with her brother Leo and sister Elfriede.
Her father died (at the age of 31) two years after she was born, and as a result she and her two siblings, Leo and Elfriede, often changed places of residence and caregivers.
In 1923 Adolf Hitler was appointed Raubal’s guardian, but it was not until 1924 that she met him for the first time during a visit to Landsberg am Lech Fortress, where he was imprisoned.
Her mother Angela was given a position as housekeeper at Haus Wachenfeld/Prinzregentenplatz 16 (Adolf Hitlers Houses) near Berchtesgaden and München around 1925.
On and of Geli and Elfriede accompanied their mother when she became Hitler’s housekeeper.
Geli Raubal began studying medicine in Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University ) in 1927 and moved into a boarding house not far from Hitler’s apartment (Prinzregentenplatz 16)
As Hitler rose to power at that time as leader of the Nazi Party, he was very domineering and possessive towards Raubal, keeping a very tight rein on her.
When he discovered in December 1927 that she was having a relationship with his chauffeur, Emil Maurice, he forced her to end the affair and dismissed Maurice from his service.
After that he did not allow her to associate with friends and attempted to have himself or someone he trusted near her at all times, accompanying her on shopping trips, to the cinema and to the opera.
Geli moved into Hitler’s Munich apartment around 1929 when she allready enrolled to study medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University, but she did not complete her studies because she chose a different path.
she gave up her medical studies to train as a singer.
Hitler financed these lessons so he could maintain strict control over her actions and her whereabouts.
She was in effect a prisoner all this time and so she and planned to escape to Vienna to continue her singing lessons.
Her mother told interrogators after the war that Hitler had forbidden her daughter to continue her relationship with a man from Linz whom she was hoping to marry.
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Hitler and Raubal argued on 18 September 1931 when he refused to allow her to go to Vienna.
He departed for a meeting in Nürnberg but was recalled to München the next day with the news that Geli shot herself and died in Hitler’s Munich apartment with Hitler’s pistol She was 23 at the time.
Rumours immediately began in the media about physical abuse, a possible sexual relationship, an infatuation by Geli for her uncle, and even murder.
The Münchener Post reported that the dead girl had a fractured nose.
Otto Strasser, a political opponent of Hitler, was the source of some of the more sensational stories.
According to several researches into this matter Hitler’s behaviour towards Geli has all the traits of a strong, latent at least, sexual dependence.
The police ruled out foul play at the time and the death was ruled a suicide.(maybe because of Hitlers political pisition)
It is well known that Hitler was devastated and went into an intense depression. He moved to a house on the shores of Tegernsee lake and did not attend the funeral in Vienna on 24 September.
He visited her grave at Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof two days later. Thereafter, he overcame his depression and refocused on politics.
The apartment of Adolf Hitler at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in München
