Georg von Trapp First Wife: Who Was Agathe Whitehead?

Agathe Whitehead, the first wife of Georg von Trapp, was a British-Austrian heiress and aristocrat who was not that popular in the media scenes. Agathe Whitehead and Georg von Trapp got married in 1911 and they divorced officially in 1922.

After walking down the aisle with Georg von Trapp, Agathe Whitehead was named Agathe Gobertina von Trapp. Agathe Whitehead and Georg von Trapp had a fruitful marriage but in the end, they parted ways and moved on with their individual lives.

Agathe Whitehead was the lovely mother of seven of the Trapp Family singers namely Agathe von Trapp, Johanna von Trapp, Martina von Trapp, Werner von Trapp, Rupert von Trapp, Hedwig von Trapp, and Maria Franziska von Trapp.

Agathe Whitehead was born to John Whitehead and Countess Agathe von Breunner-Enckevoirth in Fiume, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, on June 14, 1891, and died in Klosterneuburg, Austria, on September 3, 1922, at the age of 31 years, as a result of scarlet fever epidemic.