His work consisted among others in the collaboration in the design of facades and interiors with well-known architects, plastic decoration for interior, reliefs and sculptures full. During the First World War, he was commissioned to the copy the figure of Christ in the Trier Church of Our Lady to copy to preserve the originals from war damage. He also took on the difficult technical part of the a giant statue of Christ by Ludwig Gies, who, after the partial destruction by citizen of Lübeck, was again restored by the maintenance department of the trade show in Munich. The figure was exhibited in the National Socialism as "degenerate" and was probably destroyed later. In 1938, three of Hitzbergers works were exhibited in the Exhibition of Degenerate Art.