Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline

Birth of Adolf Hitler

Birth of Adolf Hitler, Brannau, Austria, son of Alois Hitler & Klara Polz

Death of Alois Hitler

Death of Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father

Death of Klara Hitler

Death of Klara Hitler, Adolf Hitler's mother

Photograph of Adolf Hitler

Photographed in a crowd clamouring for war

Role range: 1914-1918

Petition

Petitions Louis III of Bavaria to for service in a Bavarian regiment in World War I

Role range: 1914-1918

Health of Adolf Hitler

Injured by a grenade splinter & returns to Germany for the 1st time in 2 yrs

Battle of the Somme, 1st

Wounded in the thigh by a shell splinter near Bapaume and evacuated to hospital in Germany.

Role range: 1914-1918

Health of Adolf Hitler

Convalesces in Beelitz

Bavarian Service Cross

Awarded the Bavarian Service Cross

Role range: 1914-1918

Iron Cross

Awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class

Role range: 1914-1918

Award

Awarded for courage beyond the call of duty

Role range: 1914-1918

Health of Adolf Hitler

Convalesces in hospital in Pasewalk, recovers from temporary blindness

Health of Adolf Hitler

Leaves hospital & returns via Berlin to Munich

7th Company

Appointed Member of 7th Company, 1st Reserve Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment

Revolution of Germany

A soldiers council took charge of his regiment since the Bavarian Revolution

Guard

Appointed Guard at the Traunstein prisoner-of-war camp

Thule Society

The Voelkischer Beobachter is acquired by the Thule Society, called the Munchener Beobachter

Role range: 1921-1924

Voelkischer Beobachter

The Voelkischer Beobachter is acquired by the Thule Society, caled the Munchener Beobachter

Role range: 1921-1924

Health of Adolf Hitler

Temporalily loses sight because of gas poisoning

Arrest of Adolf Hitler

Red Guards attempt to arrest Hitler

Voelkischer Beobachter

The Munchener Beobachter is renamed the Voelkischer Beobachter

Role range: 1921-1924

DAP

Appointed Member of German Workers Party

NSDAP

Appointed Member of German Workers Party

1st Public Address

Hitler speaks for the 1st time in public & raises 300 Marks for the party funds

NSDAP

111 people attend a public NSDAP meeting at the Hofbraukeller

Public Meetings

At Hitler's instigation more public meetings are held, increasing to about 400

Informer Propagandist

An "Enlightenment Commando" appointed Informer Propagandist to infiltrate the German Workers Party

NSDAP

First visits the German Workers Party, the forerunner of the NSDAP

25 Point Program

Hitler announces the party's program in front of 2000 people in the Munich Festsaal of the Hofbrauhaus

Role range: 1921-1924

Manifesto

Hitler proclaims the Party program at the Hofbrauhaus

Rally

Chairs the NSDAP rally in the absence of Drexler, over 2,000 attend. At Hitler's wishes the 1st NSDAP rally is held at the Festsaal of the Hofbrauhaus

25 Point Program

Hitler announces the 25 Point Program of the NSDAP

Role range: 1921-1924

25 Point Program

Remains the official party program throughout the party's existence

Role range: 1921-1924

25 Point Program

The 1st of the 25 points is "We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples"

Role range: 1921-1924

25 Point Program

The 2nd of the 25 points is "We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated"

Role range: 1921-1924

25 Point Program

The 3rd of the 25 points is "We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population"

Role range: 1921-1924

National Socialism

The party keeps the program when it changes its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party in April 1920 & remains the official party program throughout the party's existence

Role range: 1921-1924

25 Point Program

Adapted from Rudolf Jung's Austro-Bohemian program by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart

Role range: 1921-1924

Demobilization

Stays on the Army payroll until 31st March 1920

Voelkischer Beobachter

The NSDAP purchase the Voelkischer Beobachter on the initiative of Chase Bauduin and Dietrich Eckart, who become the first editors

Role range: 1921-1924