Maria Franziska von Trapp

Maria Franziska von Trapp ( born September 28, 1914 in Zell am See, † February 18, 2014 in Stowe, Vermont) was an American missionary of Austrian origin.

Life

The second oldest daughter of Georg Ludwig von Trapp was formed together with her six siblings and her stepmother, Maria Augusta Trapp Trapp Family Singers, the world-famous. The life of this family was the basis for the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959 ) and its film adaptation of The Sound of Music - My Dreams (1965).

The Trapp family emigrated to the connection of Austria to Germany and renting their place of residence to a religious order. She had previously refused to perform at the birthday party of Adolf Hitler; Georg von Trapp resisted the invitation to the German Wehrmacht. In 1938 she came to the U.S., moved to Vermont in 1942 and gave concerts throughout the country. After the death of Georg von Trapp in 1947 and the end of their tours was Mary Frances missionary in Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she lived in the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Maria Franziska von Trapp was awarded the 1948 U.S. citizenship.

In 2007, the Trapp Family in Braunau am Inn Egon Ranshofen - Wertheimer price. In July 2008, Mary Frances visited the Villa Trapp in Aigen (Salzburg ) and her birthplace ( now owned by the Porsche family) in Zell am See. On 25 July 2008 she took with her half-brother John, her sister Erika, the widow of Werner von Trapp and Ernst Florian Winter, the widower of her sister Johanna ( 1919-1994 ), at a ceremony to inaugurate the Villa Trapp hotel as part without the hotel plans were finally followed. She died on 18 February 2014 100 years of age.