Georg von Trapp
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Georg Ritter von Trapp was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. After their naturalisation as US citizens, the family name was changed to 'Trap
Georg von Trapp
On duty aboard SM U-5
Lieutenant Georg Ritter von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead about 1910
The two eldest Trapp sons, Rupert (right) and Werner, in U.S. Army uniforms, reading sheet music on 24 January 1946
Maria von Trapp
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Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS, often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family. She wrote the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 a
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…including the Military Order of Maria Theresa. 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 her in 1927. He lost most of his wealth in the Great Depression, so the family turned to singing as a way of…
Von Trapp in 1948
Trapp Family Singers preparing for a concert in Boston in 1941. Maria is the third from left, in a dark suit.
Maria von Trapp's certificate of arrival at Niagara Falls, New York, on 30 December 1942