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Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia).His father, Fregattenkapitän August Johann [7] Trapp, was a naval officer who had been elevated to the Austrian nobility as Ritter von Trapp when he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class.
All of the original seven Trapp children had died by 2014, while only one of the later three children born to Georg and Maria, Johannes, is alive as of January 2025. Eleonore "Lorli" von Trapp Campbell died on 17 October 2021, and Rosmarie died on 13 May 2022.
Johannes von Trapp was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour. [4] He was eight years old when his father Georg von Trapp died in 1947. His siblings are Rosmarie (1929–2022) and Eleonore (1931–2021). He graduated from prep school at the Canterbury School in Connecticut in 1956.
Baron Captain Georg von Trapp was the patriarch of the von Trapp family. He was born in 1880 and served for 24 years in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, where he achieved the country’s highest award ...
The Trapp family was largely fictionalized in the 1959 musical The Sound of Music, which was loosely based on the 1949 book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. [4] [5] Baron Georg von Trapp and his wife Maria left Austria shortly after its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and settled with their family in Vermont in 1942. [6]
Rosmarie was the first daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp, and a younger half-sibling to the older von Trapp children portrayed on stage and in the movie.
Eleonore von Trapp: 14 May 1931 [34] 17 October 2021 (aged 90) [35] Married Hugh David Campbell in 1954 and had seven daughters with him. Lived with her family in Waitsfield, Vermont. [5] Johannes von Trapp 17 January 1939 (age 86) [34] [failed verification] Married Lynne Peterson in 1969 and had one son and one daughter with her. [5]
Agathe Gobertina von Trapp (née Whitehead; 14 June 1891 – 3 September 1922) was a British-Austrian heiress and aristocrat. She was the first wife of Georg Ritter von Trapp and the mother of seven children of the Trapp Family singers .