Agatha whitehead von trapp

Austrian noblewoman and singer

This article is about the Austrian singer.

Agatha whitehead von trapp

For her mother, see Agathe Whitehead.

Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp with his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was also a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the 1959 musical play and 1965 filmThe Sound of Music.

She was portrayed as the character "Liesl".^[1]

Childhood

Agathe was born on 12 March 1913 in Pola, Istria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Pula, Croatia).^[2] She was the eldest daughter^[2] and the second of ten children^[3] born to Georg von Trapp.

The first seven of these were born to his first wife, Agathe Whitehead, while the youngest three - Rosmarie, Eleonore, and Johannes, half-siblings to the elder seven - were born to Georg's second wife, Maria Augusta Kutschera.^[4