On 01-03-1912, he married Agathe Whitehead, an Englishwoman they would have seven children. Maria and three of her children became missionaries in the South Pacific.
In 1957, the Trapp Family Singers broke up and went their separate ways. In 1950, at the urging of a family friend, Maria wrote the family story in the book, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” (1950), which eventually was turned into the successful Broadway musical by Rogers and Hammerstein (1959), and the movie, “The Sound of Music” (1965). Georg von Trapp died in May 1947, and Maria became the head of the family. In 1942, they purchased the old Gale Farm in Stowe, Vermont, which in 1950 became the Trapp Family Lodge, offering guests sweeping mountain views in an Austrian style main lodge. They initially settled down in Merion, Pennsylvania, where their last child, Johannes von Trapp, was born. With increased Nazi pressure to embrace the new regime, the family decided to leave Austria for the United States, arriving in early 1939. Georg also turned down the offer of a commission in the German Navy. German dictator Adolph Hitler invited them to sing at his birthday celebration, but they declined. In 1938, Austria and Nazi Germany were united in the Anschluss, Union, at which the von Trapps made little secret that they were horrified at the rise of the Nazis. In 1936, Maria and family friend Monsignor Franz Matthias Wasner he died age 86 on 21-06-1992, began the Trapp Family Singers, and they soon became well known when they received high honours at the 1936 Salzburg Music Festival. During the Great Depression, when the family business failed, Georg started a chicken farm to support his family. They lived in his mansion Schloss Leopoldskron along the river Salzach. The Captain’s first wife, Agathe Whitehead, had died of scarlet fever in 1922. Two years later, Rosemarie was born, and in 1931, Eleonore was born. In 1924, she entered the Nonnberg Benedictine Convent intending to become a nun, but in 1926, she was sent to become a governess at the home of a widowed retired Austrian Navy Captain, Georg Ritter von Trapp, with seven children from his first wife, Agathe Gobertina Whitehead, oldest Rupert Von Trapp (1911 – 1992), Agathe Johanna Erwina Von Trapp (1913 – 2010), Werner Von Trapp (1915 – 2007), Hedwig Von Trapp (1917 – 1972), Johanna Von Trapp (1919 – 1994) and Martina Von Trapp Dupire (1921 – 1951). At the end of his sermon, she grabbed his elbow demanding, “Do you believe all this?” They got together afterwards to discuss religion, and soon she converted to Christianity. Caught up in the crowd so that she couldn’t leave, she soon found herself caught up in his words. Her attitude changed while in college, when she entered a crowded church believing she was about to hear a Bach concert, only to find that it was a sermon by a visiting Jesuit priest, Father Kronseder. Her father left her with a cousin, so that he could travel, and she was raised as a socialist and atheist, becoming cynical towards all religions.
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