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Wissen: The Trump Family's Migration from Germany to America
» Donald Trump's family emigrated from Germany to America in the late 19th century. The grandfather of the former president, Friedrich Trump, was born in 1869 in Kallstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate (then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria). In 1885, at the age of 16, Friedrich Trump immigrated to the United States.
The main reason for Friedrich Trump's emigration was economic. As a trained barber, he would have had little prospect of earning a sufficient income in the small town of Kallstadt, which had a population of barely 1,000 at the time. Additionally, his eldest sister Katharina had emigrated to New York a year earlier, which influenced his decision.
Friedrich Trump traveled by ship from Bremen to New York City. After a twelve-day crossing aboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd's express steamer "Eider," he reached American soil on October 19, 1885. At the Castle Garden immigration office, he was registered under the name "Friedr. Trumpf."
In the USA, Friedrich Trump made a fortune, partly during the Alaska Gold Rush. In 1892, he became an American citizen. After a brief return to Germany in 1901, where he married Elisabeth Christ, the couple attempted to settle permanently in Germany in 1905. However, this attempt failed as the German authorities refused to reinstate Friedrich Trump's citizenship. The reason for this was that he had not properly deregistered before his emigration and had not performed military service.
Due to this rejection, Friedrich and Elisabeth Trump returned to the United States. There, on October 11, 1905, their son Frederick Christ Trump was born - the father of future US President Donald Trump. «
Source: perplexity.ai with the prompt "Write a factual article about when, why and how Donald Trump's family moved from Germany to America." translated from German to English