3. 7 By faith Noah, when warned about
things not yet seen, in holy fear
built an ark to save his family. By
his faith he condemned the world
and became heir of the
righteousness that is in keeping with
faith.
HEBREWS 11:7
4. Being a father in these last days is a
difficult task. A Father must be a
Provider, a Partner, a Priest,
and a Pattern.
20. A Long term Project.
A well planned Project.
A family involving Project (Many
men today are so busy being
successful until they lose sight of
the family they're to be successful
for!)
27. Alois Schicklgruber was born
in the hamlet of Strones,
parish of Döllersheim, in the
Waldviertel, an area in
northwest Lower Austria, to a
42-year-old unmarried
peasant, Maria Schicklgruber,
whose family had lived in the
area for generations. At his
baptism in Döllersheim, the
space for his father's name on
the baptismal certificate was
left blank and the priest
wrote "illegitimate". His
mother cared for Alois in a
house she shared with her
elderly father, Johannes
Schicklgruber.
28. He was 36 years old when he
married for the first time.
Anna Glasl-Hörer was a
wealthy, 50-year-old daughter
of a customs official. She was
sick when they married and
was either an invalid or
became one shortly
afterwards. Not long after
marrying his first wife, Anna,
Alois began an affair with
Franziska "Fanni"
Matzelsberger, one of the
young female servants
employed at the Pommer Inn,
house #219, in the city of
29. Braunau am Inn, where he
was renting the top floor as a
lodging. Smith states that
Alois had numerous affairs in
the 1870s, resulting in his
wife initiating legal action; on
7 November 1880 Alois and
Anna separated by mutual
agreement. The 19-year-old
Matzelsberger became his 43-
year-old girlfriend. In 1876,
three years after He married
Anna, he had hired Klara Pölzl
as a household servant.
30. She was the 16-year-old
granddaughter of his step-
uncle (and possible father or
biological uncle) Nepomuk. If
Nepomuk was His father,
Klara was Alois' half-niece. If
his father was Johann Georg,
she was his first cousin once
removed. Matzelsberger
demanded that the "servant
girl" Klara find another job,
and Alois sent Pölzl away.
31. Alois wanted his son to seek a
career in the civil service.
However, his son had become
so alienated from his father
that he was repulsed by
whatever Alois wanted. His
son sneered at the thought of
a lifetime spent enforcing
petty rules. Alois tried to
browbeat his son into
obedience while his son did
his best to be the opposite of
whatever his father wanted.
32. Robert G. L. Waite noted,
"Even one of his closest
friends admitted that Alois
was 'awfully rough' with his
wife [Klara] and 'hardly ever
spoke a word to her at
home'." If Alois was in a bad
mood, he picked on the older
children or Klara herself, in
front of them. William Patrick
says that he had heard from
his father, Alois Jr, that Alois
Sr. used to beat his children.
33. After Alois and his oldest son
Alois Jr. had a climactic and
violent argument, Alois Jr.
left home, and the elder Alois
swore he would never give
the boy a penny of
inheritance beyond what the
law required. According to
reports, Alois liked to lord it
over his neighbors.
34. On the morning of 3 January
1903, Alois went to the
Gasthaus Wiesinger (No.1
Michaelsbergstrasse,
Leonding) as usual to drink his
morning glass of wine. He was
offered the newspaper and
promptly collapsed. He was
taken to an adjoining room
and a doctor was summoned,
but Alois died at the inn,
probably from a pleural
hemorrhage.