Frederick Trump

This article is about the German-American businessman. For other people with the same name, see Fred Trump (disambiguation).

Frederick Trump
Trump in 1918
Born
Friedrich Trump

(1869-03-14)March 14, 1869
Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria
DiedMay 30, 1918(1918-05-30) (aged 49)
New York City, U.S.
Burial placeAll Faiths Cemetery
Citizenship
  • Bavaria (1869–1871)
  • Germany (1871–1905)
  • United States (1892–1918)
OccupationBusinessman
Spouse
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(m. 1902)​
Children3, including Fred and John
FamilyTrump family

Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trumpf; German: [fʁi:dʁɪç tʁʊmpf]; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German and American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

Born and raised in Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to the Yukon, Canada and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse.

In 1901, Trump returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ. As he had failed to complete mandatory military service and notify the authorities of his departure in 1885, the Bavarian government stripped him of his citizenship in 1905 and ordered him to leave. Consequently, he returned to the United States with his family.

Trump worked as a barber and manager of a restaurant-hotel and was beginning to acquire real estate in Queens when he died in the 1918 flu pandemic.

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