Talk:Maria von Trapp
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Didn't Maria get accused of being abusive or something in recent TV interviews with her stepkids?
- They said she had a fierce and sudden temper, though it would blow over quickly. Sean Lotz talk 00:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Missionary work
From reading Maria von Trapp's autobiographies, I know that missionary work was an extremely important part of her life. It's curious that no mention of her missionary work appears in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.140.109 (talk) 00:46, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mother
The first wife of Georg von Trapp was Frances Whitehead, granddaughter of Robert Whitehead. She met him when launching a submarine for the Austrian navy, he was the captain. Her grandfather was an engineer from Bolton in Lancashire and worked on various naval projects inclduing developing the self-powered torpedo. --jmb 22:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Agathe was the name of the first wife. She was born in 1890 and died 1922. Her eldest daugther was named after her.
Do you know the exactly dates, when the Trapp "children" were born and had died ?
Andrea (known as Andrea1984 from the German Version of Wikipedia) - 20:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Baronet"
The word "baronet" is almost certainly used incorrectly on the page; it's more likely to be a case of so-called "untitled nobility". AnonMoos 00:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This article is awful
Sorry to be so blunt and detail-free, but it is. Several silly sections lurk in it, a few are badly named, the tone is not that of an encyclopedia, it has no references, just a "note", it has few details... Nousernamesleft 23:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Please, someone, take pity on this poor article, and edit it into something readable? Pgranzeau (talk) 04:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I put some informations from the children in a table. Now it looks better. I hope so. --AndreaMimi (talk) 09:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Himmler Headquarters? Ridiculous!
—72.81.84.211 (talk) 12:02, 16 May 2008 (UTC)What might be the source that Himmler used the von Trapp former home near Salzburg, Austria as his 'headquarters'? Or (per Google, his home, retreat, with slave labor, etc.). Himmler's headquarters were always on the Prinz Albrechtstr. in Berlin, where he also had living quarters for official use when he wasn't at the family home. He moved his family for their safety after the Allied bombings began to a modest property in south Germany, where he stayed when taking a break (along with a residence rented for his mistress and their children). Himmler is said to have been a stickler for avoiding even the appearance of financial improprieties or profiteering and punished those who did, made only modest purchases himself, which he paid for with receipts, and lived strictly within his income. Captain von Trapp was said to have mourned the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I and his Navy position, and didn't care for the emergence of the strong Austrian Nazi party. He sold or turned over the house to a Catholic order when the family left for America in 1938. It may be that Austrian Nazis had something to do with the property during the World War II period, but no German SS and/or Himmler 'headquarters' according to extensive Himmler biographies. Is this a tale for tourists?
[edit] Himmler HQ not so ridiculous?
There is a reference to the fate of the von Trapp's former home in "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp, published by Geoffrey Bles, 1953. On p. 284 she writes:
"After Armistice day when the boys [Maria's sons] were still in Europe, they had gone for a short visit to Salzburg and found that our old home there had been confiscated by Heinrich Himmler; that it had been made his headquarters for the last period of that cruel war; that the chapel had been turned into a beer parlour; and what had been Father Wasner's room had become Hitler's quarters when he came there."
This is either true, or someone is lying - the boys, those who gave them this information, or Maria herself. On the same page, she goes on to write:
"When it [the house] was given back to us after the war, we prayed that we might be able to sell it. Our prayer was answered. the house was sold to a religious order in America which wanted to establish a seminary in Europe. The place is now called Saint Joseph's Seminary."
Whatever the truth of this, the article certainly needs more work. --Aspiro (talk) 07:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
