Friedrich Trump was Donald Trump’s grandfather. He was born in a small town in Bavaria in 1869 and emigrated to the United States when he was sixteen because he could not find work in his hometown. He ope a restaurant a later bec an Amer citizen. I 1901 he retu to Ger a rich m and mar Elisabeth Christ. Th settled i New York, b Elisabeth mis her ho and t couple retu to Ger two ye later. B the Ger authorities ref to al Trump t recover h German citiz because they considered he had deliberately avoided doing military service. So they returned to New York and their first son, Donald Trump’s father, was born there in 1905.