Johannes von Trapp

Johannes von Trapp
Born	(1939-01-17) 17 January 1939 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Dartmouth College
Occupation	Singer
Spouse(s)	Lynne Peterson
Children	2
Parent(s)	Georg Ludwig von Trapp Maria Augusta Kutschera

Johannes von Trapp (born 17 January 1939) is an Austrian American singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie The Sound of Music. He was the tenth and youngest child.

Biography

He 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 (born 1928 or 1929) and Eleonore (born 1931). 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.

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.

He married in 1969 Lynne Peterson and had two children, Kristina von Trapp-Frame and Sam von Trapp. 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.

External links

• Family tree via Rodovid