Person:Georg von Trapp (1)

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Georg Johannes von Trapp
b.4 Apr 1880
d.30 May 1947
Parents and Siblings
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  • M.  Hedwig Wepler (add)
  1. Georg Johannes von Trapp1880 - 1947
Spouse and Children
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  1. Rupert von Trapp1911 - 1992
  2. Agathe von Trapp1913 - 2010
  3. Maria Franziska von Trapp1914 - 2014
  4. Werner von Trapp1915 - 2007
  5. Hedwig von Trapp1917 - 1972
  6. Johanna von Trapp1919 - 1994
  7. Martina von Trapp1921 - 1951
Spouse and Children
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  1. Rosmarie von Trapp1929 -
  2. Eleonore von Trapp1931 -
  3. Johannes von Trapp1939 -
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Facts and Events
Name Georg Johannes von Trapp
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 Apr 1880
Marriage to Agathe Whitehead
Marriage to Maria von Trapp
Death[1] 30 May 1947
Burial? Trapp Family Cemetery, Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont, United States
Reference Number? Q89518?


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Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who later became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of World War I, sinking 11 Allied merchant ships totaling 47,653 GRT and 2 Allied warships displacing a total of 12,641 tons. His first wife Agathe Whitehead died of scarlet fever in 1922, leaving behind seven children. Trapp hired Maria Augusta Kutschera to tutor one of his daughters and married Maria in 1927. When he lost most of his wealth in the Great Depression, the family turned to singing as a way of earning a livelihood. Trapp declined a commission in the German Navy after the Anschluss and settled in the United States.

Trapp's accomplishments during World War I earned him numerous decorations, including the Military Order of Maria Theresa. After his death in 1947, the family home in Stowe, Vermont, became a ski lodge, the Trapp Family Lodge. Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers was adapted into the West German film The Trapp Family (1956), which served as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music (1959) and the film adaptation directed by Robert Wise (1965).

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Georg Johannes von Trapp, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   George Ritter von Trapp, in Find A Grave.
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