I was born 20 April 1889, at Braunau am Inn, Austria, the third child of six. My father, Alois Hitler, (1837-1903), was a customs official. Alois Hitler was born illegitimate. For the first 39 years of his life he bore his mother's surname, Schicklgruber. In 1876, he began using the surname of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler, after visiting a priest who was responsible for birth registries who had Johann Hiedler declared to be his father.