Frederick Trump
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Trump in 1918
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| Born |
Friedrich Trump March 14, 1869 Kallstadt, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria |
| Died | May 27, 1918 (aged 49) Woodhaven, Queens, New York |
| Nationality |
German American |
| Occupation | Barber, operator of restaurants and hotels |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Christ (m. 1902) |
| Children | Elizabeth, Fred, and John |
| Parent(s) | Christian Johannes Trump Katharina Kober |
| Relatives | Henry J. Heinz second cousin |
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; March 14, 1869 – May 27, 1918) was a German American businessman. Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he emigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber. Several years later in 1891, he moved to the Northwest. He made his fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in Seattle and a mining town to the north, and in the Klondike Gold Rush. He later returned to Germany and married. When authorities found that he had emigrated when young to avoid fulfilling his military service, he lost his Bavarian citizenship; he and his family returned to the United States.
He worked as a barber and hotel manager, and began to acquire real estate in Queens. He was the father of Fred and John G. Trump, and grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States.
Friedrich Trump was born in Kallstadt, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, to Christian Johannes Trump and Katharina Kober. The Trump family were Lutherans, as were most residents in the town, although Bavaria was majority Catholic. Trump’s earliest known ancestor, the lawyer Hanns Drumpf, was recorded in Kallstadt in 1608. The Palatinate, then a relatively impoverished region, has been known for its viticulture since the Roman Empire. After the devastation during the Thirty Years' War, the family had the opportunity to become winemakers.
Through much of the 19th century to 1871, the Palatinate was part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. That year Bavaria became became part of the new German Empire. During periods of war and anti-German discrimination in the United States, Trump's son Fred later denied his German heritage, claiming his father had been a Swede from Karlstad. This version was recounted by Fred's son Donald in his 1987 autobiography. After being sick with emphysema for ten years, Trump’s father, Christian, died on July 6, 1877, at the age of 48, leaving the family in severe debt from medical expenses. While all five of his siblings worked in the family grape fields, Friedrich was considered too sickly to endure hard labor. In 1883, then aged 14, he was sent to nearby Frankenthal by his mother to work as a barber’s apprentice and learn the trade.
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