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City in the Bremen federated state, Germany
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump arrived from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria in October 1885 at age 16...
Donald Trump’s paternal ancestors trace to Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Bavarian) region of Germany: his grandfather Friedrich (Friederich/Frederick) Trump was born there in 1869 and emigrated to...
Records show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and appears in U.S. immigration and census records under anglicized names; biographers and publ...
A clear paper trail links Friedrich (Frederick) Trump to U.S. immigration: he arrived from Bremen aboard the steamship Eider in October 1885 and is recorded on the Castle Garden passenger manifest; la...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and arrived in New York in mid-October of that year; contemporary accounts and family memoirs plac...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich (also called Frederick) Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria to the United States in October 1885, arriving at New York’s immigrant ...
appears in 19th‑century immigration records as an arrivals passenger to in October 1885, and later German administrative records show ordered his expulsion in 1905 for evading compulsory military serv...
Frederick (Friedrich) Trump left Kallstadt, Bavaria, for the United States in October 1885 as a 16-year-old, boarding the steamship Eider from Bremen and arriving at the Castle Garden immigrant depot ...
Primary, contemporaneous records tied to Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s 1885 emigration and the later Bavarian citizenship actions include passenger arrival lists showing a “Friedr. Trumpf” on the stea...
Frederick (Friedrich) Trump arrived in the United States as a teenage emigrant in 1885, settling in New York after disembarking at Castle Garden and quickly entering the workforce as a barber’s appren...
Historians resolve discrepancies about Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s birth details by triangulating German church/baptismal records, U.S. immigration and census entries, and later secondary biographie...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump is documented in U.S. arrival records as a 16‑year‑old who sailed from Bremen on the S.S. Eider on October 7, 1885 and was processed at New York’s Castle Garden on October ...