Ancestry of Donald Trump: Trump is of German descent on his father # 39; side.
Until 1990, Donald Trump claims a Swedish heritage, even though his family has roots in Kallstadt, a small town in southwest Germany Credit BY THOMAS PHOTOGRAPHY GETTY LOHNES.
Kallstadt is a small unpretentious Located in the southwestern wine country of Germany, this hamlet of twelve hundred souls among its biggest draws a pair of annual wine festivals and the fact that he proclaims the butcher is a paradise for pig stomach, local delicacy But growing up, the filmmaker Simone Wendel has always known that her hometown was special as she explains in the opening lines of Kallstadt kings, his documentary here the sun always shines and the wine never fails But Kallstadt is not like other villages, because Donald Trump's grandfather was born here in this house Yes, exactly Donald Trump.
Released in Germany in 2014, the Kings of Kallstadt which includes an interview with the substantially shod Wendel, Linzer Torte in hand, with Donald Trump in his glittering Trump Tower offices was done before the presidential bid Trump Unsurprisingly, Kallstadt film itself are now getting a second look in a country where there are few weeks, coverage of Der Spiegel presented the Republican front-runner against a background of an American flag and a fire raging madness read the title.
Donald Trump's public recognition of what he calls the film his German blood Good stuff, he says, crediting its reliability, strength and ability to be on time is actually quite recent Up in 1990, including in his 1987 best seller, the art of the deal, Trump claimed to be Swedish, German and not This relatively transparent fiction family Trump German grandmother lived in front of the family until his death in the sixties was first propagated by Trump's father, Fred, due to anti-German sentiment in the U S.
But Donald Trump enthusiasm for delaying its German heritage in 1999, he was the grand marshal of the German-American Steuben Parade in New York is something of a one-way street There's no one in Germany talks about Trump being one of ours Sebastian Jobs, professor of history at the free University of Berlin, said here, people were really excited about Obama They look down on Trump Nevertheless, as Wendel film shows, full of small Kallstadt members Trump family, the degree of second or third cousins presidential hopeful relatives by marriage, I am from a village, Wendel explained recently on a popular German television talk show everyone is connected to everything the world through marriage were Trumps in Kallstadt for three hundred years, Gwenda Blair, author of the Trumps three generations of builders and presidential candidate, noted According to his research, Hanns Drumpf, a traveling lawyer, moved to Kallstadt in 1608, and the spelling of his last name ch ANGed by the end of this century.
Wendel, who said she, too, is probably somehow related to Trump initially to discover the existence of a secret to the success of the famous emigrant son of Kallstadt in addition Trumps, Kallstadt was also at the home of Johann Heinrich Heinz, the son of American-born Henry John Heinz founded the ketchup Heinz According to residents, there is a long history of intermarriage between the Trumps and Heinzes If it was just Heinz , OK then it's just an accident, said Wendel, by phone and Heinz But Trump The reason I made this film was to see was it a coincidence or not.
Instead of heading to the archives, Wendel visited parlors tchotchke rich, hair salons, garden barbecues, and the village own community center cinderblock of She interviewed some of the biggest villagers Benny the postman Kallstadt, Bam Bam Junior beadle, the pageant -winning Melanie and Sarah wine princesses Claus aerobics instructor, Uli, who is second in command of the gymnastics club and Gerda, a knowledgeable retired, among others When he has Kallstadt begat asked why not one but two American business dynasties, most We are people shrugged their shoulders pretty nice here, so I can imagine that Trump and Heinz fit well in America was the most compelling reason yet available, Wendel comes across many other interesting details, including much of the history of the Trump family.
While perched in a dilapidated lookout in the forest with cousin, Fritz, the village hunter, Wendel learn that the grandfather Trump, Friedrich Trump announced his departure for the New World as a teenager, in a left the note of Trump on the table that night, or maybe it was the next day, Fritz Friedrich Trump wasn t there anymore, Fritz, who remains in contact with some members of the New York family telegram, said Ma grandmother always told me about it.
On a paved patio, another advantage over the first Friedrich continued Trump legend traveled to New York, where her sisters were already living, then made his way to the west, towards the gold rush of Alaska But of course, he wanted to break his nails, and he didn t have a very strong constitution, so the parent said he opened a restaurant and took gold nuggets in paying According Gwenda Blair, these accounts are more or less precise but they leave all that, plus steaks, oysters and alcohol, miners could use their gold to buy the company of women for successful Trump border institutions.
On one of his trips home to Kallstadt, Friedrich married the girl next door, Elizabeth, and took in New York, Elizabeth, however, was homesick, and in 1904 the family returned to Kallstadt Friedrich worked for a year, to get back his citizenship of the German authorities, according to John Walter, cousin of Donald, who works for the Trump Organization and serves as the family historian in vain Friedrich had breached his compulsory military duty, accordingly he was expelled they left, Walter said, and they returned to America, and that's why Donald and I are here.
Hm, meets Donald Trump, with a smile that's an interesting story that I do not not even know.
German journalists, commentators and Kallstadters themselves were quick to point out the irony of a woman, Angela, said if his grandfather had been treated as Trump wants to treat people, he wouldn t have gotten very far Wendel said in a recent television interview with Wendel, the talk show Markus Lanz called the Trump attitude towards immigrants absurd If someone is a good example of how productive and integrated immigrants can be, then it's Donald Trump, he said, before stressing that it was the grandmother of Trump, Elizabeth, who supported the family after the unexpected death of Friedrich left alone to raise their three children in New York.
While Wendel agreed with Lanz Trump that women receive far too little attention, the film turns philosophical rather than ideological edge as the documentary progresses, Wendel joined a group size tour bus Kallstadters who, through their Trump connection, are invited to New York in March in the Steuben Parade wary of American habits, they bring their own three toilet paper layers things wrap back to Kallstadt, a place where, as she says, everything is better when you do together statistically, every villager is a member 1 35 twenty-seven official clubs of the city.
Preparations for the grape harvest and wine festival accompanist are booming as the beadles junior and senior town test the lights of a tractor before plugging in a papier mache float-pig stomach, the filmmaker asks villagers large if questions had they lived, as Friedrich Trump, in the boom years of German immigration to the United States would they emigrated A white hair Heinz says compared yes, probably; Uli, the gymnastics club, said he can imagine that he could have done; the retiree, Gerda, said she can not answer the question without knowing what his family and financial situation would have been at the time said OK Wendel in its last round, so that if the Trumps had stayed in Kallstadt as planned What would Donald is now Maybe a winemaker, wine Princess Sarah said, after reflection and probably a not too shabby at it.
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