In 1873 he had married Anna Glasl, the fifty-year-old adopted daughter of another customs collector. His father Alois Hitler, the illegitimate son of a housemaid, was an intelligent and ambitious man and was at the time of Adolf Hitler's birth, a senior customs official in Lower Austria. Both Hitler's parents had come from poor peasant families. Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border.
