translate English to German: In 1896, he began using the name of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler, after visiting a priest responsible for birth registries and declaring that Georg was his father (Alois gave the impression that Georg was still alive but he was long dead).
Dort kam er mit den pseudowissenschaftlichen und neureligiösen Schriften des Rasseideologen und Antisemiten Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels in Kontakt.