Am i related to HItler?

Question

My last name is Shike, and after doing some research i found out that Hitler's real last name was Shikelgruber. Could it be that when my ancestors came to America that their name was shortened. My father is 100% german so it would have to be on his side because my mother is 100% irish. 10 points to whoever gives me an answer with a full explanation.

Answer 1

No your not related to Hitler

Answer 2

Hitler was an Austrian, not a German.

Shike, which I cannot find a origin for, is probably an Americanized spelling of a name like Schick.

Schick    

Last name origins & meanings:

German: nickname for a well-mannered and experienced person, from Middle High German schic ‘orderly’, ‘skillful’.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin; perhaps from a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Shimen ‘Simon’, but compare Sik.

Sik  

Last name origins & meanings:

Dutch: from the personal name Sik, a short form of Siegfried, Siegmund, or some other name formed with sieg- ‘victory’.

Czech: from the German adjective schick ‘orderly’, ‘useful’, ‘skillful’.

Jewish (from Bohemia): from the acronym Šme Jehudim Kadoším ‘Jewish names are sacred’.

Schickelgruber is composed of two elements Schickel and gruber.

Schickel    

Last name origin & meaning:

South German: metonymic occupational name for a trader, from a noun derivative of schickelen ‘to deal or trade'

Gruber  

Last name origins & meanings:

German (Grüber) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. As a Jewish name it can also be one of names randomly distributed by government officials.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish dialect grub ‘rude, impolite’.

Answer 3

It's impossible to tell based on that.

Last names aren't unique, far from it. I'm sure there are thousands Shikelgrubers in Germany. You'd have to hire a professional genealogy's researcher to be sure, but I highly doubt it.

Answer 4

Adolf Hitler was not German but an Austrian.  It was his father who was born a Schicklgruber as his Mother (Adolf Hitler's Grandmother) was not married at the time of his birth.  

The links below give details of his family.

Answer 5

nope ur completely un-related, sorry.

his adoptive fathers name was shikelgruber - he took the name hitler after his reeal fathers' hiedler

can you imagine 70 million germans chanting "heil shikelgruber heil shikelgruber"

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitle...

Adolf's father, Alois Hitler, (1837-1903), was a customs official. His mother, Klara Polzl, (1860-1907), was Alois' third wife (either her grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother were also likely Alois' biological father. Moreover, Johann was her future husband's stepuncle, and even after they were married Klara still called her husband "Uncle"), .so a papal dispensation--since Klara was a devout Catholic--had to be obtained for the marriage.

     Alois Hitler was an illegitimate child. For the first 39 years of his life he bore his mother's surname, Schicklgruber. In 1876, he took the surname of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler. The name was spelled Hiedler, Huetler, Huettler and Hitler, and probably regularized to Hitler by a clerk.

     Allied propaganda exploited Hitler's original family name during World War II. Pamphlets bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were airdropped over German cities. But he--Alois--was legally born a Hitler and was also related to Hiedler via his maternal grandmother, Johanna Hiedler.

     Hitler's paternal grandfather was most likely one of the brothers Johann Georg Hiedler or Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There were rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish and that his grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, became pregnant while working as a servant in a Jewish household.

     Opponents tried to prove that Hitler had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins.  Adolf later made it illegal for German women to work in Jewish households.

     William Patrick Hitler (born March 12, 1911 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom and died July 14, 1987 in Patchogue, New York, U.S.), nicknamed Willy, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler, Jr., and his first wife Bridget Dowling, William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually going to the United States where he fought against his uncle in World War II. His nationality  was German and Irish.

    Hitler's nephew is recalled by elderly former neighbors, and in Liverpool folklore variously as "Billy" or "Paddy" Hitler.

Dowling wrote a manuscript called "My Brother-in-Law Adolf", in which she claimed Adolf Hitler had moved to Liverpool with her and Alois from November 1912 to April 1913, in order to dodge conscription in Austria.

(A longer, interesting article on William can be found at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pat...

Answer 7

He was Austrlian.  Hitler's real father is a little up for debate.

Answer 8

The only way you will know is to do your family research.  Hitler was Austrian, by the way.

Answer 9

The answer to your question is very simple: you can't be related to Hitler since he had no kids

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_...

Answer 10

Yes, you are right about one part.  Your ancestors COULD have shortened their name when they came to America. This happens a lot.

Here is the OTHER part.. "could have" is not the same as "did", and it is not the same as being sure that the original was Shikelgruber.  Your issue is working with too many "maybes", when working with your ancestry is ALWAYS supposed to work with NO "maybes".  Example.. to do the research right and get the right line... you start with you, and 'prove' who are your parents. Next, you "prove" their parents. As long as you follow this process, you NEVER get the wrong family.

So, I went and looked at some census records from 1910, because what is included is where someone was born AND where their parents were born.  I find people with this name, who were born in the US, and their parents also born in the US.

So.. the answer for you is that you HAVE to be sure when your own relatives (on Dad's side) came to the US, then look for records to verify where they came from, and it often will include the 'real' original name.  This is just good research practice.

Once you know for absolutely sure, who the immigrant was, and what YOUR real last name was.. you can't show that you are related to Hitler in any way. For now, you are just guessing.