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August (Gustl) Kubizek (3 August 1888 Linz – 1956) was a close friend of and later shared a room in Vienna with Adolf Hitler. After leaving school he apprenticed as an interior decorator in his father's business, but his true passion was for music [1] (p. 2 & p.31) and he went on to study music at the Vienna Conservatory. Hitler broke off the friendship some time after he was twice denied entrance into Vienna's art academy. Kubizek then became conductor of the orchestra of the Austrian town of Marburg on the Drau in 1914. This town became Maribor in Slovenia in 1918.