QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Part 2 Why they came

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German evolution

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Leaving home – preparations for departure

Why did they come? Militaristic imperatives, migrant incentives

Ludwig Leichhardt – lost but not forgotten

Lyrical Leichhardt (I) – “Launched into the wilderness” Discovering statehood – Queensland proclaimed

J C Heussler – viewing distant mountains

Der Südseekönig – Queensland a jewel in the Godeffroy crown Amalie Dietrich – “the gleam of that distant world” Why did they come? Ministry desires and high ideals Germany’s “place in the sun” – the Fatherland focuses abroad

Queensland annexes New Guinea

Franco-Prussian war veterans honoured in Brisbane

Kreuzerbesucher – colonial cruiser visitors

Colonies in conflict

Internment (I)

Mephisto – unique surivor of the Western Front

Navy fahionable

Legacy of the Langers – aesthetic escape to Queensland

What’s in a name?

Internment (II)

The adventures of Ilse Prechtel – new life for a post-war immigrant Expo’88 – Brisbane takes to the stage; West Germany’s farewell

Transformations – Queensland; Germany

Part 3 Settling in Queensland

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Überblick – an overview

Deutsche Siedlungen – settlements

Dr Wuth md – amazing journey from Hannover to Dalby Canning Downs station – some Darling Downs memories

Lyrical Leichhardt (II) – “This august solitude”

Darling Downs and beyond

Emma Holzapfel on the Fifth Continent

From Moreton Bay to Maryborough – four family snapshots

“Wir sind nun da” – Brisbane’s first free settlers

German Station – Nundah Indigenous encounters

Bethanien – Albert and Logan Germans

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In the words of one who was there – founding settlers remembered The Rosewood Scrub – challenging, but not “impervious” Fertile Fassifern – feeding many, many mouths A tale of two Templins – Uckermark to Fassifern More for Maryborough – Wide Bay growers and builders Mission to Queensland – Lutheran ministry efforts

A legacy of light – Darling Downs dynasties Early viniculture – “the pure juice of the grape” Weingut Assmanshausen – vinicultural successes

In vino veritas? Ardent spirits shared

Rössler to Applethorpe – sowing the seeds of the Granite Belt

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