page_title: Trump family
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Trump family / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kallstadt, Weinstrasse; Weinstraße 80/82: Gasthaus „Weinkastell“; im Hintergrund Weinstraße 107: Protestantische Pfarrkirche
context_page_description: Trump is a German and German-American surname originating in the Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire, today in modern Germany.
  While the surname Trump is found throughout Germany, it has been recorded variously as Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, and Dromb in Kallstadt since the 17th century. Family members still live in the region in southwestern Germany.
  Individuals with this surname came to the United States in the 19th century, including Charlotte Louisa Trump's son Johann Heinrich Heinz, the father of Henry J. Heinz, the founder of the Heinz company.
context_section_description: Trump is a German surname derived from a word that was used to refer both  to drums and to  trumpets. The name is on record in Kallstadt from the 17th century.
  Gwenda Blair suggests the family may be descended from an itinerant lawyer, Hanns Drumpf, who settled in Kallstadt in 1608 and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump during the Thirty Years' War of the early 1600s. However, this is not in accordance with data provided by German genealogists. Journalist Kate Connolly, visiting Kallstadt, found several variations in spelling of the surname in the village archives (including Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, Dromb) but her article does not note "Drumpf". There are no indications that other spellings of the name, including Trumpf, could be related to the Trumps.
  Johannes Trump from the nearby village Bobenheim am Berg had established himself as a winegrower in Kallstadt by the late 17th century. Several of his descendants also were vintners in Kallstadt, one of many villages in the famous wine-growing region of the Palatinate (Pfalz). Charlotte Louisa Trump (1789–1833) married Johann Georg Heinz, and their son Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Heinz (1811–1891) emigrated from Kallstadt to the United States in 1840 and was the father of Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), the founder of the Heinz company.
caption: Kallstadt, Germany, the Trump family's ancestral home.
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