Poetsch hitler biography

Primary Sources

(1) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)

Dr. Leopold Potsch, my professor at the Realschule in Linz, embodied this requirement to an ideal degree.

He was a school teacher of Adolf Hitler at the Linz high school.

He was a school teacher of Adolf Hitler at the Linz high school.

Born in modern-day Slovenia, Pötsch was a pan-German nationalist who despised the Hapsburg rulers of Austria-Hungary.

Poetsch came from the southern German border area.

Leopold Poetsch was born on 18th November 1853.

Leopold Poetsch.

This old gentleman's manner was as kind as it was determined, his dazzling eloquence not only held us spellbound but actually carried us away.

Even today I think back with gentle emotion on this gray-haired man who, by the fire of his narratives, sometimes made us forget the present; who, as if by enchantment, carried us into past times and, out of the millennial veils of mist, molded dry historical memories into living reality.

On such occasions we sat there, often aflame with enthusiasm, and sometimes even moved to tears.

What made our good fortune all the greater was that this teacher knew how to illuminate the past by examples from the present, and how from the past to draw inferences for the present.

As a result he had more understanding than anyone else for all the daily problems which th