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Johannes von Trapp (born January 17, 1939) is an American Austrian singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie The Sound of Music. He is the tenth and youngest child. As of September 2023, Johannes is the last surviving sibling of the von Trapp family.
Biography
Johannes von Trapp was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour.
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. Later that year, he, along with several other members of the extended family, went to New Guinea to do missionary work. He later joined the Vermont Army National Guard as a Second Lieutenant. He attended training as a medical officer at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in 1967.
By 1969, he had graduated from Dartmouth College. He attended the Yale University's School of Forestry for his Master's degree. He returned to Stowe, Vermont, to help with the family inn's finances and then became the manager of the resort. In 1977, he moved to British Columbia and later to a ranch in Montana. He eventually returned to manage the family business in Vermont.
In 1969, von Trapp married Lynne Peterson. They have two children. Johannes visited the Trapp Villa in Salzburg Aigen on 28 July 2008, with his half-sister Maria Franziska, and Erika, the widow of his half-brother Werner.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Maria von Trapp
- Mark Jerman (1871)
- 2. Bundesliga 2020–2021
- Johannes von Trapp
- Trapp Family
- Georg von Trapp
- Maria von Trapp
- Maria Franziska von Trapp
- Trapp Family Lodge
- Agathe von Trapp
- The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
- Von Trapp Brewing
- Elisabeth von Trapp