11-02-2020, 10:11 AM
Kallstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, German Federal Republic, is not proud of a certain descendant of one of its emigrants:
Donald Trump not welcome to grandpa's home
The US President has German roots - his grandparents come from Kallstadt in the Palatinate. People there are ashamed of him, and nobody hopes he's re-elected
Birgit Baumann November 2nd, 2020
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Is that paranoia? The wine from the previous evening? Or is the brain playing a trick because you're in the Trump bakery? But there are actually several miniature presidents in the showcase. Very pink, very blond - a real Donald.
"Ah no, these are our raspberry slices," explains Ursula Trump. She has to know, she runs the bakery in the Palatinate village of Freinsheim, and she is like Melania: She is also married to a real Trump.
![[Image: SPABaeckerei-Trump.jpg?w=1600&s=24f2555d]](https://images.derstandard.at/img/2020/10/30/SPABaeckerei-Trump.jpg?w=1600&s=24f2555d)
This would now be the moment for a short silence, which the 73-year-old ends without being asked. "We have nothing to do with him at all, there is also no connection." Postscript: "You can't choose your relationship."
The pronunciation already offers a little distance. Trump is pronounced "drump" in the Palatinate, like pressure. And yet: Harald Trump, Ursula's husband, is, as she explains, "seven generations back related to the US president. The ancestors were siblings."
![[Image: SPAUrsula-Trump.jpg?w=1600&s=44b1825c]](https://images.derstandard.at/img/2020/10/30/SPAUrsula-Trump.jpg?w=1600&s=44b1825c)
Ursula Trump is married to a very complex relative of Donald Trump.
Grandpa Trump from the Palatinate
Friedrich Trump, Donald's grandfather, comes from the 1,200-inhabitant town of Kallstadt. It is four kilometers from Freinsheim and 100 kilometers from Frankfurt am Main. On the way there you can see vineyards, occasionally a small village, then again vineyards and again vineyards.
The young Friedrich Trump also had to help with the grape harvest on the family estate. But he was of poor constitution, so his mother sent him to the hairdressing apprenticeship. But Friedrich soon realized: You don't get rich with it. So in 1885, at the age of 16, like many Germans at the time, he emigrated to New York. From then on he called himself Frederick and laid the foundation stone for Trump's real estate empire in the USA.
Who knows, maybe world history would have been different had he only been able to return. He wanted that, because his wife Elisabeth - also from Kallstadt - was terribly homesick. The authorities, however, refused the emigrant reintroduction and thus the return home, as he had not done any military service in Germany. Grandpa Trump had to stay in America, where he died in 1918. He never saw Kallstadt again. So sad ...
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000121311258/donald-trump-not-welcome-in-opas-heimat
Donald Trump not welcome to grandpa's home
The US President has German roots - his grandparents come from Kallstadt in the Palatinate. People there are ashamed of him, and nobody hopes he's re-elected
Birgit Baumann November 2nd, 2020
Quote
Is that paranoia? The wine from the previous evening? Or is the brain playing a trick because you're in the Trump bakery? But there are actually several miniature presidents in the showcase. Very pink, very blond - a real Donald.
"Ah no, these are our raspberry slices," explains Ursula Trump. She has to know, she runs the bakery in the Palatinate village of Freinsheim, and she is like Melania: She is also married to a real Trump.
This would now be the moment for a short silence, which the 73-year-old ends without being asked. "We have nothing to do with him at all, there is also no connection." Postscript: "You can't choose your relationship."
The pronunciation already offers a little distance. Trump is pronounced "drump" in the Palatinate, like pressure. And yet: Harald Trump, Ursula's husband, is, as she explains, "seven generations back related to the US president. The ancestors were siblings."
Ursula Trump is married to a very complex relative of Donald Trump.
Grandpa Trump from the Palatinate
Friedrich Trump, Donald's grandfather, comes from the 1,200-inhabitant town of Kallstadt. It is four kilometers from Freinsheim and 100 kilometers from Frankfurt am Main. On the way there you can see vineyards, occasionally a small village, then again vineyards and again vineyards.
The young Friedrich Trump also had to help with the grape harvest on the family estate. But he was of poor constitution, so his mother sent him to the hairdressing apprenticeship. But Friedrich soon realized: You don't get rich with it. So in 1885, at the age of 16, like many Germans at the time, he emigrated to New York. From then on he called himself Frederick and laid the foundation stone for Trump's real estate empire in the USA.
Who knows, maybe world history would have been different had he only been able to return. He wanted that, because his wife Elisabeth - also from Kallstadt - was terribly homesick. The authorities, however, refused the emigrant reintroduction and thus the return home, as he had not done any military service in Germany. Grandpa Trump had to stay in America, where he died in 1918. He never saw Kallstadt again. So sad ...
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000121311258/donald-trump-not-welcome-in-opas-heimat
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.