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Are any of the von Trapp family still alive?

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The Trapp Family was a singing group formed by 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 interwar period.

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In 1938, Hitler entered Austria and the von Trapps decided to save their spiritual rather than their material wealth and left their large estate outside of Salzburg for the United States.

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Are any of the von Trapp family still alive?

All of the original seven Trapp children had died by 2014, while only two of the latter three children born to Georg and Maria, Johannes and Rosmarie, are still alive as of October 2021. Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell died on 17 October 2021.

Today, Johannes von Trapp, 76, the eldest son of Maria and Baron Georg Johannes von Trapp, owns and operates the Trapp Family Lodge near Stowe, Vermont.

The family has lived on the property since 1942 when they bought a 300-acre farm in the mountains.


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