A century-old, handwritten letter from President-elect Donald Trump’s grandfather reveals he faced a deportation order in Germany and begged for permission to stay in the country after he was discovered as a scofflaw for ditching out on mandatory military duty.

The letter, written by Friedrich Trump in 1905 and unearthed by a German historian this week, was addressed to then Prince Luitpold of Bavaria asking for permission to stay in his homeland with his wife after he illegally left when he was 16 without completing compulsory military service.

Trump tried to return in his 30s with his wife Elisabeth because she was extremely homesick, according to reports.

Authorities soon discovered Trump was a scofflaw and “draft-dodger” who never performed his mandatory military service, according to the German news outlet Deutsche Welle.

“The American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump, currently residing in Kallstadt, is hereby informed that he is to depart the state of Bavaria, or face deportation,” officials wrote in a document dated February 1905 according to Deutsche Welle.

Trump fired back at the Bavarian government and wrote the aforementioned letter, imploring the “well-loved, noble, wise and just” Bavarian prince to allow him to stay in Germany and grant his “most subservient request.”

The court rejected the three page letter and forced him back to the U.S. and banned him from ever visiting his homeland again.

The news of the letter comes at a particularly ironic time in the President-elect’s history as he threatens mass deportations in the U.S. and has openly criticized Germany for their pro-immigrant policies, despite his own grandfather’s immigration woes.

With Post Wire Services