Johannes von Trapp (born 17 January 1939) is an

Austrian American Austrian Americans (, ) are Americans of Austrian descent, chiefly German-speaking Catholics and Jews. According to the 2000 U.S. census, there were 735,128 Americans of full or partial Austrian descent, accounting for 0.3% of the population. The ...

singer and former member of the

Trapp Family Singers The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) were a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the ...

, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie ''

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''. He is the tenth and youngest child. As of December 2022, Johannes is the last surviving sibling of the von Trapp family.

Biography

Johannes von Trapp was born in 1939 in

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while the family was on a concert tour. He was eight years old when his father

Georg von Trapp Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who later became the patriarch of the Trapp Family, Trapp Family Singers. Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine command ...

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

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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

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. He attended the Yale University's School of Forestry for his

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. He returned to

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, to help with the family inn's finances, and then became the manager of the resort. In 1977, he moved to

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and later to a ranch in

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. 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.

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Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...

American people of Austrian descent 20th-century Austrian women opera singers 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers Canterbury School (Connecticut) alumni Musicians from Philadelphia Dartmouth College alumni Yale University alumni People from Stowe, Vermont Singers from Pennsylvania