TRUMP: Frederick aka Frederich Trump (Trump's grandfather) left for the US early so as to avoid his military service

April 04, 2018

TRUMP: Frederick aka Frederich Trump (Trump's grandfather) left for the US early so as to avoid his military service

TRUMP (aka Drumpf,Trumpf, etc.) : Multiple times draft dodger

LIKE GRANDFATHER (Frederick aka Frederich), LIKE SON (Donald J. Trump)

Fred Trump (father of Donald J.) didn't serve either.

Also, no reference to Donald Trump, Jr. ever being in the service.

Trump worked seven days a week for two and a half years under barber Friedrich Lang. After completing his apprenticeship, he returned to Kallstadt, a village with about 1,000 inhabitants. He quickly discovered there was not enough business to earn a living. He was also approaching the age of eligibility for for conscription to military service in the Imperial German Army. He quickly decided to emigrate to the United States, later saying, "I agreed with my mother that I should go to America." Years later, his family members said that he departed secretly at night, leaving his mother a note.

Due to Elizabeth Sr.'s extreme homesickness, the family returned to Germany later. In Germany, Trump deposited into a bank his life’s savings of 80,000 mark, equivalent to $515,196 in 2017.

Elizabeth Christ and Frederick Trump, 1918

Soon after the family arrived back in Germany, Bavarian authorities determined that Trump had emigrated from Germany to avoid his military-service obligations, and he was classified as a draft dodger. On December 24, 1904 the Department of Interior announced an investigation to expel Trump from Germany. Officially, they found that he had violated the Resolution of the Royal Ministry of the Interior number 9916, an 1886 law that punished emigration to North America to avoid military service with the loss of German citizenship. For several months, Trump petitioned the government to allow him to stay but he was unsuccessful.

Since 1816 and until 1945, the Palatinate was part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1871, Bavaria became a part of the newly formed German Empire. During periods of war and anti-German discrimination in the United States, Trump's son Fred later denied his German heritage, claiming his father had been a Swede from Karlstad. This version was recounted by Fred's son Donald in his 1987 "The Art of the Deal".