Johannes von Trapp (born January 17, 1939) is an American Austrian singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie The Sound of Music.
[3] Johannes von Trapp was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour.
He attended training as a medical officer at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in 1967.
He returned to Stowe, Vermont, to help with the family inn's finances and then became the manager of the resort.
[2] Johannes visited the Trapp Villa in Salzburg Aigen on 28 July 2008, with his half-sister Maria Franziska, and Erika, the widow of his half-brother Werner.