Background
Wilhelm Trute was born in 1836 in Sankt Andreasberg as the only child of Georg Conrad Trute and Johanna Henriette Trute (birth name Keitel).
Wilhelm Trute was born in 1836 in Sankt Andreasberg as the only child of Georg Conrad Trute and Johanna Henriette Trute (birth name Keitel).
lieutenant is very likely that he attended school in Sankt Andreasberg and worked in the local mineral processing unit as a teenager to supplement his family"s income.
Not much is known about Trutes childhood and youth. He first got a job in Clausthal and later on in the Samson Pit in Sankt Andreasberg. He worked as a miner as well as he practiced his passion – the breeding of his canaries – until a rheumatism and from 1889 a gastric trouble which later turned out to be stomach cancer chained him to his bed.
After a long time of suffering he died on 20 October 1889 at 12:45 Department of Administration and Management. Wilhelm Trutes ancestors got to the Harz in the 15th century from the Ore Mountains what makes his family one of the oldest in Sankt Andreasberg.
lieutenant is not known since when his ancestors bred canaries but like others Andreasberg his father already bred a race of canary from the mainland called Japper. Around 1865 Wilhelm Trute got a pair of high quality singing canaries from the silver works supervisor Wilhelm Weiland, a relative of his.
The assessment that the first Harz Rollers emerged from this crossbred is likely. These Rollers from the Trute branch had, other than later Harz Rollers, grey to grey-green feathering and excelled by their delighting singing.
Those birds brought worldwide fame to the breeder and his hometown.
In distinction to other breeders Trute used only birds from this one branch. He also did not sell his birds by mail. Whoever wanted to acquire one of his Rollers had to come to his home in Sankt Andreasberg.
He bred canaries from the Trute-branch in his home until his disease chained him to his bed in 1889.