Josef Greiner

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Josef Greiner (28 June 1886 in Preding, Styria — 4 September 1971 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer. He supposedly knew Adolf Hitler during Hitler's time in Vienna and later published two memoirs on this topic, for which he is best known. Josef Greiner was born in the Austrian state of Styria in 1886. He moved to Vienna around 1908 and earned his living through various jobs, including as a sign painter and as a lamplighter for a cabaret. He lived in the Meldemannstraße dormitory from January to April 1910. It was during this period that he claimed to have first become acquainted with Adolf Hitler, who moved into the dormitory in February 1910 and stayed until 1913. According to an essay by Reinhold Hanisch published posthumously in The New Republic in 1939, during this period, Greiner and Hitler at one point worked together in a job that involved filling old tin cans with paint and then going door to door to sell it. In 1938, Greiner published a memoir entitled Sein Kampf und Sieg. Eine Erinnerung an Adolf Hitler (His Struggle and Victory: A Memoir of Adolf Hitler). In it, he told of knowing Hitler during his time in the Meldemannstraße dormitory.