16 Facts About Reinhold Hanisch

Reinhold Hanisch was an Austrian migrant worker and occasional business partner of the young Adolf Hitler.

Reinhold Hanisch descended from a low nobility family but his parents became poor and decadent.

Reinhold Hanisch was imprisoned in Berlin three months in 1907 for theft, and in 1908, was sentenced to six months in prison.

Finally, Hitler split with Reinhold Hanisch, accusing Reinhold Hanisch of selling one of Hitler's paintings and keeping the entire proceeds of the sale for himself.

Reinhold Hanisch supplied, among others, the Jewish frame dealer Jakob Altenberg with pictures and postcards.

On 4 August 1910, Reinhold Hanisch was reported to the police by another dormitory resident, Siegfried Loffner, who was acting as Hitler's seller.

The Vienna police discovered that Reinhold Hanisch was registered in Vienna under the false name of Fritz Walter.

Probably the painter Karl Leidenroth, who lived in the men's dormitory and was Reinhold Hanisch's friend, had reported Hitler at Reinhold Hanisch's instigation.

On 5 August 1912, Reinhold Hanisch left Vienna to return to Gablonz.

The house belonged to the parents of a railroad conductor, Franz Feiler, a picture-collector, for whom Reinhold Hanisch obtained various pictures.

On 20 July 1923, Reinhold Hanisch was sentenced by the district court in Vienna to three months' imprisonment for theft.

Reinhold Hanisch produced watercolors, which he sold as alleged works of Hitler from their years in Vienna.

Reinhold Hanisch often painted pictures of flowers in the style of the painter Olga Wisinger-Florian, which he sold as Hitler originals.

Nevertheless, on 7 May 1932, Reinhold Hanisch was sentenced to three days in jail.

Reinhold Hanisch fakes occupied Hitler's staff for years after Reinhold Hanisch's death.

Reinhold Hanisch stressed that Hitler had a good relationship with the Jews in the men's home.