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Adolf Hitler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Hitler" redirects here. For other uses, see Hitler (disambiguation). This is a good article. Click here for more information. Page semi-protected Adolf Hitler Hitler in 1937 Führer of Germany In office 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 Preceded by 	Paul von Hindenburg (as President) Succeeded by 	Karl Dönitz (as President) Chancellor of Germany In office 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 President 	Paul von Hindenburg Deputy

Franz von Papen Position vacant

Preceded by 	Kurt von Schleicher Succeeded by 	Joseph Goebbels Reichsstatthalter of Prussia In office 30 January 1933 – 30 January 1935 Prime Minister

Franz von Papen Hermann Göring

Preceded by 	Office created Succeeded by 	Office abolished Personal details Born 	20 April 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary Died 	30 April 1945 (aged 56) Berlin, Germany Nationality

Austrian citizen until 7 April 1925[1] German citizen after 25 February 1932

Political party 	National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921–1945) Other political affiliations 	German Workers' Party (1920–1921) Spouse(s) 	Eva Braun (29–30 April 1945) Occupation 	Politician, soldier, artist, writer Religion 	See Adolf Hitler's religious views Signature Military service Allegiance 	 German Empire Service/branch 	Reichsheer Years of service 	1914–1918 Rank 	Gefreiter Unit 	16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment Battles/wars 	World War I Awards

Iron Cross First Class Iron Cross Second Class Wound Badge

Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party). Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War II, and the Holocaust.

A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.

Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. By 1943, Hitler's military decisions led to escalating defeats. In 1945 the Allied armies successfully invaded Germany. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and in the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people in World War II.

In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned.