Unearthed Letter Shows Trump's Grandfather Was Rejected From Returning to Germany.
wochitnews on Nov 22, 2016 German archivists have found a letter written by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's grandfather asking to be allowed to return to his German homeland after his wife failed to settle in to life in the United States. The letter, signed by Friedrich Trump, who left Germany at the age of 16 in 1885, was unearthed at the state archives in the western German region of Rhineland-Palatinate. Friedrich had, however, failed to deregister properly before he left Germany and was not therefore allowed to be renaturalised in Bavaria, which was then its own kingdom. Shucks!
Unearthed Letter Shows Trump's Grandfather Was Rejected From Returning to Germany
Mr Trump left Germany at the age of 16, with few possessions, to find prosperity in the gold rush. He started working as a barber in the US, before going on to run a restaurant, bar and allegedly even a brothel — enterprises that made him wealthy.
He returned to the vilage of Kallstadt with his fortune in 1901 and met his future wife Elisabeth Christ. The two married and moved to New York, but returned to Kallstadt two years later, after Elisabeth said she was homesick.
The decree orders “American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the area “at the very latest on 1 May [...] or else expect to be deported”.
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