page_title: Maria von Trapp
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Maria von Trapp / Biography / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: SMU-5 mit Kommandand Ritter von Trapp auf der Brücke Русский: На мостике U 5 её командир линиеншиффслейтенант фон Трапп. English: On the bridge, U 5 of its commander linienshiffsleytenant von Trapp.
context_page_description: Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.
context_section_description: Maria was asked to teach one of the seven children (Maria Franziska) of widowed naval commander Georg von Trapp in 1926, while she was still a schoolteacher at the abbey. His wife Agatha had died in 1922 from scarlet fever. Eventually, Maria began to look after the other children (Rupert, Agathe, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina), as well.
  Captain von Trapp saw how much she cared about his children and asked her to marry him, although he was 25 years her senior. She was frightened and fled back to Nonnberg Abbey to seek guidance from the mother abbess, who advised her that it was God's will that she should marry him. She then returned to the family and accepted the proposal. She wrote in her autobiography that she was very angry on her wedding day, both at God and at her husband, because what she really wanted was to be a nun. "I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children. I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after." They were married on 26 November 1927 and had three children together: Rosmarie (born 1929), Eleonore ("Lorli") (born 1931), and Johannes (born 1939).
caption: Georg von Trapp on the bridge of a U-5 of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (1915)
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