President-elect Donald Trump grandfather,Friedrich Trump, a German, was reportedly banned from Germany after he failed to do military service. A historian has discovered a royal decree that was issued to Friedrich Trump asking him to leave Germany and never come back.
Friedrich Trump was issued the document on February 1905 and was ordered that he leave the kingdom of Bavaria within eight weeks for his failure to do the mandatory military service and his failure to inform authorities of his movement to US when he first departed in 1885.
According to a historian from Rhineland-Palatinate, Roland Paul, who found the document, he told the tabloid Bild;
Friedrich Trump emigrated from Germany to the USA in 1885. However, he failed to de-register from his homeland and had not carried out his military service, which is why the authorities rejected his attempt at repatriation.
F.Trump was born in Kallstadt, now in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1869. He emigrated to the US at the age of 16 to escape poverty.
He travelled to Kallstadt in 1901 where he met his wife, Elisabeth Christ, and both moved to the US. When Elisabeth was home sick and wanted to travel back to Germany, the authorities block his attempts to settle there.
In 1905, he tried to overturn the order the royal decree, and wrote to Prince Regent Luitpold, appealing to him, and addressing him as “the much-loved, noble, wise and righteous sovereign and sublime ruler”.
The king rejected his appeal once again, and the Trump family left Germany for New York on 1 July 1905 with their daughter on the Hapag steamship Pennsylvania. At the time they were moving to New York, Elisabeth was pregnant with Donald Trump father, Fred.
People of Kallstadt in south-west Germany joke about Trump become the president, and put the blame on the German authorities. The 1,200 small town known for wine-growing has shown little interest or claim Donald Trump as one of their own.