Franz Wasner

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Franz Wasner (December 28, 1905 – †June 21, 1992) was the director and conductor of the Trapp family and a missionary

Wasner was born on December 28th, 1905, in Feldkirchen, a small town in Upper Austria. After graduating from the University of Innsbruck, he was ordained a priest and served in the small rural community of Mayrhofen in Tyrol for one year. He studied ecclesiastical law in Rome and graduated in 1934.

Prelate Wasner returned to Salzburg where he met Georg von Trapp. He and Trapp became close friends and from that time on he accompanied the Trapp family as director and conductor on all their concert tours.

He then decided to do missionary work on the Fiji Islands until 1966.

The Vatican appointed him rector of the "Anima" (the domicile of German-speaking theology students in Rome) which he managed for over 15 years.

He died in June 1992 in Salzburg.