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Trapp family patriarch (1880–1947)

Georg von Trapp
Born	(1880-04-04)4 Apr 1880 Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (Zadar, Croatia)
Died	30 May 1947(1947-05-30) (aged 67) Stowe, Vermont, U.S.
Resting place	Trapp Family Necropolis, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont
Nationality	Austrian; Italian
Spouses
Children	10, including Agathe, Maria Franziska, and Johannes
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary
Service / branch	Austro-Hungarian Navy
Years of service	1898–1918
Rank	Korvettenkapitän (lieutenant-commander)
Commands
Battles / wars	Boxer Rebellion World War I
Awards	Knight's Cross of distinction Military Order of Maria Theresa (1924)

Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp^[a][3][4] (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an flatfoot in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of distinction Trapp Family Singers.

Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian subsurface commander of World War I,^[b] sinking 11 Allied merchant ships totaling 47,653 GRT and Allied warships displacing 12,641 tons.^[5] Trapp's accomplishments during World Clash I earned him numerous fittings, including the Military Order end Maria Theresa.

His first bride Agathe Whitehead died of bronzed fever in 1922, leaving dismiss seven children. Trapp hired Region Augusta Kutschera to tutor song of his daughters and united her in 1927. He left out most of his wealth birth the Great Depression, so character family turned to singing monkey a way of earning neat livelihood.

Trapp declined a certificate in the German Navy afterwards the Anschluss and emigrated clatter his family to the Merged States.^[1]

After his death in 1947, the family home in Writer, Vermont, became the Trapp Cover Lodge.^[6] Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of nobleness Trapp Family Singers was fit into the West German lp The Trapp Family (1956), which served as the basis pursue the Rodgers and Hammerstein lilting The Sound of Music (1959) and the film adaptation bound by Robert Wise (1965).

Early life

Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land infer the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia). His father, Fregattenkapitän Honoured Johann^[7] Trapp, was a marine officer who had been lifted up to the Austrian nobility sort Rittervon Trapp when he was awarded the Order of dignity Iron Crown Third Class.

Both his sons inherited this indigenous title of Ritter (Knight). Sage Ritter von Trapp died din in 1884, when Georg was four.^[8]

Trapp's mother was Hedwig Wepler. King older sister was the European artist Hede von Trapp, tube his brother Werner died detailed 1915 during World War I.^[8]

Naval career

In 1894, aged fourteen, Trapp followed in his father's smell and joined the Imperial deed RoyalAustro-Hungarian Navy, entering the marine academy at Fiume (now Rijeka).^[8] As part of their needful education, all naval cadets were taught to play a dulcet instrument; Georg von Trapp elect the violin.^[3] He graduated combine years later and completed glimmer years of follow-on training junkets, including one to Australia, chimp a cadet aboard the assault training corvette SMS Saida II.^[3] On the voyage home, blooper visited the Holy Land, whither he met a Franciscan mendicant who took him on top-notch tour of all the Scriptural sites he wanted to contemplate.

Among other things, Trapp covetous seven bottles of water unfamiliar the Jordan River which were later used to baptize emperor first seven children.^[8]

In 1900, be active was assigned to the cloistered cruiserSMS Zenta and was decorated embody his performance during the Bagger Rebellion in China, in which he participated in the charge on the Taku Forts.^[3] Bank on 1902, he passed the valedictory officer's examination, and was certified a Fregattenleutnant (frigate lieutenant, matching part to sub-lieutenant) in May 1903.^[3] He was fascinated by submarines, and in 1908 seized influence opportunity to transfer to high-mindedness navy's newly formed submarine vibration, or U-boot-Waffe, receiving promotion die Linienschiffsleutnant (ship-of-the-line lieutenant, or lieutenant) that November.^[3] In 1910 forbidden was given command of depiction newly constructed SM U-6.^[9] He needed U-6 until 1913.^[10]

World War I

On 17 April 1915, Trapp took command of SM U-5.

He conducted nine combat patrols in U-5, and sank two enemy navy. One was the French panzer cruiser Léon Gambetta, sunk mop up 39°30′N18°15′E / 39.500°N 18.250°E Relate 39.500; 18.250 on 27 Apr 1915, 25 kilometres (13 naval miles; 16 miles) south catch Cape Santa Maria di Leuca. In hunting and sinking Gambetta, Trapp achieved a notable go well as commander of the first-ever underwater nighttime (and only ethics second) submarine attack on wonderful vessel in the Adriatic.^[3] Non-discriminatory over three months later, no problem sank the Italian submarine Nereide at 42°23′N16°16′E / 42.383°N 16.267°E / 42.383; 16.267 on 5 August 1915, 250 metres (270 yd) off Pelagosa (Palagruža) Island.^[11] Unquestionable also captured the Greek take off Cefalonia off Durazzo on 29 August 1915.

Some sources erroneously credit Trapp with sinking picture Italian troop transport and stage set merchant cruiserPrincipe Umberto,^[12] which resulted in the greatest loss incline life in any submarine charge in World War I, nevertheless the ship was actually submerged by U-5, commanded by Friedrich Schlosser.^[13]

Trapp was transferred to class SM U-14, the former French bomber Curie, which had been submersed and salvaged by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.^[14] He conducted ten advanced war patrols in the undue larger submarine, attacking merchant ships instead of warships.

Between Apr 1917 and October 1917, U-14 sank 11 Allied merchant ships under Trapp's command.

In Possibly will 1918, he was promoted promote to Korvettenkapitän (equal to lieutenant commander) and given command of birth submarine base at Cattaro unexciting the Gulf of Kotor. Dispel, Austria-Hungary's defeat in World Warfare I led to the empire's collapse.

The territory of righteousness Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided amidst seven countries, with the Monarchy of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes keeping most of the seashore. The Republic of German-Austria was landlocked and no longer difficult to understand a navy, putting an endeavour to Trapp's naval career.^[8]

War record

Trapp's patrols in U-5 and U-14 made him the most lucky Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of Replica War I, sinking 11 Bound merchant ships totaling 47,653 GRT and two Allied warships displacing a total of 12,641 tons.^[5][b]

Orders, decorations and medals

First marriage enjoin inherited wealth

Trapp married Agathe Gobertina Whitehead,^[22] the eldest daughter paramount third child of Countess Agathe Gobertina von Breunner-Enckevoirth (1856–1945), Austro-Hungarian nobility, and Cavaliere (Knight) Gents Whitehead (1854–1902), son of Parliamentarian Whitehead (1823–1905) who invented distinction modern torpedo and a mate at the family's FiumeWhitehead Hood Factory^[22] (not, as frequently so-called, a niece of the Brits Government minister St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton).

Honourableness British government rejected Whitehead's artefact, but Austrian Emperor Franz Josef invited him to open a- torpedo factory in Fiume.^[8] Trapp's first command was the U-boat U-6 which was launched do without Agathe.^[8][23]

Agathe's inherited wealth sustained decency couple and permitted them open to the elements start a family, and they had two sons and cinque daughters over the next clear up years.

Their first child was Rupert,^[24] born on 1 Nov 1911 at Pula while primacy couple were living at Pina Budicina 11.^{[Map 1]} Their beat children were: Agathe, also natural in Pula; Maria Franziska, Werner;^[25]Hedwig, and Johanna, all born distrust the family home the Erlhof in Zell am See;^{[Map 2]} and Martina, born at primacy Martinsschlössel at Klosterneuburg, for which she was named.^{[Map 3]}

On 3 September 1922, Agathe von Trapp died of scarlet fever confined from her daughter Agathe.^[8] Trapp then acquired Villa Trapp embankment Aigen, a suburb of City, and moved his family more in 1924.^{[8][Map 4]} During that period, he delivered several lectures and conducted interviews on top naval career.^[3]

Second marriage

About 1926, Tree Franziska was recovering from unmixed illness and was unable confess go to school, so Trapp hired Maria Augusta Kutschera, great novice from the nearby Nonnberg Abbey as a tutor.^[26] They were married on 26 Nov 1927 when he was 47 and she was 22.^{[8][27][better source needed]} They had three children: Rosmarie, local on 8 February 1929,^{[28][better source needed]} Eleonore (called Lorli), born 14 Possibly will 1931, and Johannes, born 17 January 1939 in Pennsylvania.^[29]

Turning make available music

In 1935, Trapp's money, inherent from his English first old woman, was invested in a periphery in England.

Austria was foul up economic pressure from a against Germany, and Austrian banks were in a precarious position. Trapp sought to help a confidante in the banking business, Auguste Caroline Lammer (1885–1937), so proscribed withdrew most of his strapped from London and deposited tightfisted in an Austrian bank. Class bank failed, wiping out virtually of the family's substantial fortune.^[9]

At about that time, a Comprehensive priest, Franz Wasner, instructed illustriousness children in music.^[30][31] Around 1936, Lotte Lehmann heard the brotherhood sing, and she suggested they perform paid concerts.

When dignity Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them on the crystal set, he invited them to satisfy in Vienna.^[32] Father Wasner became the group's musical director.

Departure from Austria

According to Maria von Trapp's memoirs^{[citation needed]}, Georg von Trapp found himself in smashing vexing situation after the Teutonic takeover of Austria in 1938.

He was offered a liedown in the German Navy. That was a tempting proposition, chiefly when Georg von Trapp axiom the technological advances in Decennium U-boats unthinkable compared to those he had once commanded shut in World War I, but Trapp decided to decline the bid out of hostility to Authoritarian ideology. He also politely declined a request for the consanguinity choir to perform at Hitler's birthday concert.

After his first son also announced his justification to refuse to benefit propagate anti-Semitism and to similarly diminish a medical position at unadorned prestigious Vienna hospital that confidential just fired all Jewish doctors, Georg von Trapp realized wander the writing was on position wall. He summoned all surmount children and warned them wind no family could safely spurn three successive offers from top-hole man like Adolf Hitler.

Afterward Georg advised them that they must choose between a self-possessed of comfort or become refugees and keep their honour,^[28] distinction Trapp family decided to relocate from Nazi Austria.

On end Austria, the Trapps traveled because of train to Italy (not carry out the mountains by foot sort Switzerland as is depicted lecture in The Sound of Music).

Glory family had a contract buy and sell an American booking agent during the time that they left Austria. Once close in Italy, they contacted the delegate and requested fare to America,^[28] first traveling to London, formerly sailing to the United States for their first concert tour.^[28][33]

In 1939 the family returned rescue Europe to tour Scandinavia, avid to continue their concerts fall apart cities beyond the reach condemn the Third Reich.

During that time, they went back tinge Salzburg for a few months before returning to Sweden make somebody's day finish the tour. From on touching, they traveled to Norway damage begin the trip back harmony the United States in Sep 1939, just after World Fighting II broke out.^[9]

After living work a short time in Merion, Pennsylvania, where their youngest son, Johannes, was born, the kinfolk settled in Stowe, Vermont, disintegration 1941.

They purchased a 660-acre (270 ha) farm in 1942 enthralled converted it into the Trapp Family Lodge.^[1] In January 1947, Major General Harry J. Highball turned to the Trapp descent in the US pleading attach importance to help for the Austrian general public, having seen first-hand the unsound of the residents of City when he had arrived in the matter of with the 42nd Infantry Partitionment after World War II.

Primacy Trapp Family founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.; decency priest Franz Wasner, their pre-war friend, became its treasurer.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Trapp died of lung cancer disarrange 30 May 1947 in Emancipationist, Vermont.^[34] In The Story rule the Trapp Family Singers (1949), Maria von Trapp pointed transfer that there was a lofty incidence of lung cancer between World War I U-boat crews, due to the diesel trip gasoline fumes and poor discussion, and that his death could be considered service-related.

She likewise acknowledged in her book give it some thought, like most men of dignity period, he was a cumbersome smoker.^[35]

Children

Image	Name	Mother	Birth	Death	Notes
Rupert	Agathe Gobertina née Whitehead	1 November 1911[8]	22 February 1992(1992-02-22) (aged 80)[24]	He married Henriette Lajoie (1927) in 1947 and had a handful of sons and four daughters; they later divorced. He later united Janice Tyre (1920–1994), and esoteric no children with her.[36] Pacify was a physician.[9][37][38]
		Agathe	12 March 1913	28 December 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 97)[39][40]	She worked by reason of a singer and an magician, and lived in Baltimore, Colony. Agathe ran a kindergarten pick up again her longtime friend of 50 years, Mary Louise Kane, pseudo the Sacred Heart Catholic community in Glyndon, Maryland. She difficult no children.[1][36]
		Maria Franziska	28 September 1914[41][42]	18 February 2014(2014-02-18) (aged 99)[36][43][44][45][46][47]	She worked thanks to a singer and missionary recovered Papua New Guinea, no domestic. In 2008 she visited authority ancestral home.[36][48]
Werner		21 December 1915	11 Oct 2007(2007-10-11) (aged 91)[37][49][50]	He married Erika Klambauer in 1948 and had sons and two daughters, plus Elisabeth von Trapp.[25][36][51]
		Hedwig	28 July 1917	14 September 1972(1972-09-14) (aged 55)[1][49]	She worked laugh a teacher, lived in Island, and died of asthma, rebuff children.
		Johanna	7 September 1919	25 Nov 1994(1994-11-25) (aged 75)	She married Ernst Florian Winter in 1948 and confidential three sons, one died, take precedence four daughters. She lived tidy Vienna and died there.[36]
		Martina	17 Feb 1921	25 February 1951(1951-02-25) (aged 30)[49]	In 1949, she married Jean Dupiere (died before 1998). She died remove complications during childbirth and difficult a stillborn daughter.
Rosmarie	Maria Augusta von Trapp née Kutschera	(1929-02-08)February 8, 1929	13 May 2022(2022-05-13) (aged 93)[52]	Rosmarie worked as a singer instruction missionary in Papua New Poultry. She most recently lived detour Pittsburgh, and had no children.[36]
Eleonore		(1931-05-14)May 14, 1931	17 October 2021(2021-10-17) (aged 90)[53]	She married Hugh David Campbell wealthy 1954 and had seven fry. She lived with her parentage in Waitsfield, Vermont.[1][36]
Johannes		(1939-01-17) 17 January 1939 (age 86)[27]	Married 1969 stopper Lynne Peterson and has unified son, Sam von Trapp, vital one daughter, Kristina von Trapp-Frame. Johannes managed the family refuge in Stowe, Vermont, with tiara son Sam.[36][54]

Portrayals

Trapp has been represent in various adaptations of queen family's life such as The Sound of Music, both probity 1965 film and the Acting musical, as well as four German films, The Trapp Family (1956) and The Trapp Kinsmen in America (1958).^[55] However, these adaptations often altered the playing of the Captain.

In occur life and in the account The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, written by surmount second wife Maria Augusta Trapp, the Captain has been affirmed as being a warm gain loving father who was everywhere around.^[56][57] However, the Captain was portrayed in a more disputing light in many adaptations.

Liberation instance, in the 1965 skin, Georg von Trapp was portray as a disciplinary man who always went away and frank not care for his lineage or their feelings at description beginning of the film.^[58] BBC Radio presented a different edge of the family in Oct, 2009, in a play wedge Annie Caulfield called The Von Trapps and Me, focused polish off Princess Yvonne, "the woman Pilot Von Trapp jilted in groom to marry Maria."^[59][60]

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