Why is the surname Hitler not found anywhere in society today?

Question

This was brought up during a discussion at work, and nobody could answer it. The more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. Was this surname wiped off the face of the earth? If so why? There are plenty of horrible mass murderers throughout history. If you try to answer this question, please provide some sort of proof on how the answer to the question was formed.

Answer 1

Here are the actual facts. The surname Hitler is actually a name mangle. The actual surname in it's most common spelling is Hiedler. There was more than one occurrence of the name Hiedler being recorded (usually by some semi-literate clerk somewhere) as Hitler. Of course, the most famous goes without saying. However, even in this case, it wasn't Adolph whose name was mangled, it was his father, Alois Hitler. His father (illegitimate) ultimately took the name of his stepfather, Johann Hiedler but some clerk recorded it as Hitler (also found as Huetler and Huettler).

So the reason the name is rare is that it is actually a name mangle of Hiedler. But aside from the infamous Hitler, there have been a number of occurrences of this particular variant being used.

It also seems (I cannot remember WHERE I heard this so treat this information as suspect), that as a result of WWII and THE Hitler, many people who were carrying the surname spelled Hitler, reverted to the more common Hiedler to completely distance themselves from association with THE hitler. Again, I can't remember where I got that so I can't vouch for the veracity - but sounds good.

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Why is the surname Hitler not found anywhere in society today?
This was brought up during a discussion at work, and nobody could answer it. The more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. Was this surname wiped off the face of the earth? If so why? There are plenty of horrible mass murderers throughout history. If you try to answer this question,...

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Answer 4

You ask what needs to be done just ignore that the surname indicates the caste, reservation based on caste and social standing should be abolished as it has helped none and harmed many. it has divided our people, that upper caste people hate lower caste people and vice versa. Our politicians are the ones who fan all of this see SC people converted to muslim, christian, buddhist and now our politician wants them to have reservations under that category so unless and until, politicians do something about this we will be stuck with it but this is what they wont do because if people are divided each one will get some vote. I share the same fate that agony uncle has gone through so i sympathise with him.

Answer 5

It was always a rare surname. It hasn't disappeared entirely.

http://find.person.superpages.com/
has 12 people in the USA with that surname who have listed phone numbers. That proves it hasn't disappeared entirely.

In 1880, according to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

there were just 108 people with it in the entire USA. That proves it was rare. It is a German or Austrian surname, but the USA has a fair sampling of many German, Swiss and Austrian surnames. (Plus I don't know if the the German census from that era is on-line.)

You could look for it in the German telephone book. I suspect many people in Germany who had it changed to "Schmidt".

Answer 6

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Yes my dear, you rightly pointed out, why are we still using caste based surnames. We set ourselves lofty goals of creating a casteless society and are doing just the opposite of that. During the emergency Shri Jai Prakash Narayan gave a call to leave caste based surnames, some followed, but most of the Indians ignored and continued with their surnames. Blaming politicians will not do. They are now hell bent on doing a caste based census. If you really want change, change yourself. refuse to use your surname, refuse to tell your caste to the census person coming to your home. I am doing that and my personal experience tells me that when I refuse to tell my caste most of people show so much surprise that, I feel like giving them a dressing down, but that is not the solution. Simplest solution is to just start believing in yourself than the caste you belong to, open up yourself, refuse to use any caste based surname and when census people come knocking at your door just do not tell him your caste. Blame games won't do any thing. Catch the Bull by the Horn. @ Buddha Fan. What did you get by becoming Buddhist. Everybody in India knows that only lower caste people due to influence of Ambedkar became Buddhists. Still to in eyes of others who know it, you are a lower caste. This is not a solution. What Ambedkar did was escapism. He did not try to change the society, but escaped the society created his own little cocoon. But still it haunts, Unless the society changes, you will not become truly liberated from this kind of inhumanity. Now what you do is, you stand outside and abuse Hinduism. But what about others who did not embrace Buddhism. Your so called dalit leaders are now becoming Arab Pati and your so called dalit intellectuals are defending her on becoming Arab Pati. Wake up man wake up, catch the bull by horn. Refuse to be ghettoised. Refuse to accept the reservations in the name of caste, ask them to provide you with better education facilites, ask them to provide you with scholarships. At present most of benefits for poor dalits are being enjoyed by the rich, monetarily well off dalits, the benefits never reach the really needy. So do something about it. Standing outside and abusing others will not help.

Answer 7

interesting...u made me think ore...people no more like to be recognized with controverisla thing..many might have changed the surname.

Answer 8

Our parish priest's surname is hitler

Answer 9

Hitler ,shmitler it is what it is

Answer 10

In case your not aware, the name Adolf Hitler is synonymous to genocide. The stark horrors of the holocaust back in World War II shown by the media in all its ghastliness shocked the world so much that Nazism, though effective politically, was relegated to nothing more than hooliganism and terror tactics.

The shock was almost total in that a lot of Germans then disavowed the name. Those born with the name immediately moved to other parts of their country and changed their names. Others of German descent in other countries immediately petitioned changes in their names and was granted such changes after an exhausting screening process.

A question arises here that there have been others more violent and have killed more than 3 or 4 holocausts put together such as the Khmer Rouge, Idi Amin, Josef Stalin, and Mao Ze Dong to name a few. It may be true for these later dictators, but the media were so suppressed that the truth never came out, hence, the world did not know. What the world doesn't know, the world doesnt care about.