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Friedrich (Frederick) Trump — Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather — emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and entered through Castle Garden in New York; his departure violated ...
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 grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1885, returned to Germany, lost his Bavarian citizenship for skipping military service an...
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States from Europe: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Germany and returned to the U.S. by 1885 and again in 190...
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...
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...
A useful starting list separates magazines devoted to World War II from mainstream publications that covered the war as it happened: dedicated titles such as World War II (HistoryNet) and WWII History...
arrived in the in October 1885 as a 16‑year‑old immigrant through , the primary New York entry point before , and later filed for a U.S. passport—both facts in the historical record that point to lawf...
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...
A royal Bavarian decree from February 1905 ordered “the American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the Kingdom of Bavaria — specifying he must depart by 1 May or face deportation — on th...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s paper trail includes U.S. arrival records at Castle Garden, patchy references to U.S. naturalization efforts, and a set of Bavarian archival documents—a banishment/deport...