Germans in Queensland - Out of the Port talks, presented by the State Library of Queensland. Images from the John Oxley Library and Heritage Collections. focusing on Queensland Memory.

2. Two men on a horse and cart (Negative: 110628). Heck's outfit (Description supplied with photograph). The men stand on
the two-horse cart. The field and trees of the farm property are visible in the background.

3. Family group on a farm in the Fassifern District.
(Negative 168490). German settlement in the
Fassifern District. The family members pose in a field
with cattle. Trees have been cleared in the
foreground. Farm buildings can be seen beyond the
fence.

4. Crew of the Karlsruhe (ship) marching through
Boonah, 1934 . (Negative 33870 ). A crowd watches
the crew of the Karlsruhe (ship) march through
Boonah. The sailors are in uniform and march two by
two. [Arial 10].

5. German farming family and farm in Fassifern, ca.
1890 . (Negative 168552 ). Collection reference
5478 Johann Christian Heussler Presentation Album.

6. Von Senden family . (Negative 188898 ). Von
Senden was born in Holstein, Germany in 1852 and
came to Australia in 1865. The family were pioneers
of the Logan Agricultural Reserve. (Description
supplied with photograph.).

7. Amalie Dietrich, 1821 - 1891 .
(Negative 60188 ). Amalie
Dietrich was a German naturalist
who helped introduce Australia's
natural wonders to Europe. She
spent nearly ten years (1863-
1872) in the barely-settled wilds
of northern Queensland,
collecting for the Museum
Godeffroy in Hamburg,
Germany. Information taken
from Wisenet website, 2005,
retrieved on 28 February 2005
from <http://www.wisenet-
australia.org/ISSUE42/dietrich.ht
m>).

8. Class portrait of the students of the German
Community School, South Brisbane, ca. 1890s .
(Negative 10122 ). Students of the German
Community School, South Brisbane, photographed
with their teacher, in the late 1890s. The flags on the
wall in the background appear to be in the colours
black, white and red which were the colours on the
German national flag until 1919 (when they were
replaced by the black, red and gold).

9. Hauling sugar cane, Marburg, ca. 1910 . (Negative
121070 ). German workers hauling sugar cane with a
four-horse team. The cart is heavily loaded with
cane. Railway tracks can be seen in the background.

10. Members of the Deutscher Klub, Brisbane, 1912.
(Negative 20708). Members relax at tables on the
verandah of the Deutscher Klub, 1912. The men
drink beer and play cards, possibly including
cribbage. A small boy stands next to the first table.
The verandah is enclosed with trellises and blinds.

11. Wagon wedding party, West Moreton, 1907. (Negative 36641).
Caption: A German wedding in West Moreton. The wedding party on
their way to the church in a German wagon

12. Members of the Goethebund at Beenleigh, ca. 1934. (Negative
33869). The Goethebund members gather on the lawn of a property
bordered by a picket fence. The Goethebund was a non-political
organisation whose principal objective was to foster German literature,
art, music and culture. It was founded in 1927 and was dissolved in 1939
(Information taken from: A. Corkhill, Queensland and Germany : ethnic,
socio-cultural, political and trade relations 1838-1991, 1992).

13. Holzheimer farm at Bethania, Queensland, ca. 1872. (Negative
20134). German family standing in front of a farmhouse with a
shingled roof. Brick structure to the far left of the photograph has a
smoking chimney. Photograph also depicts a horse- drawn-wagon
and a man on horseback. [printed inversely]

14. Engelsburg Baptist Church Band, Kalbar, 1907-1914. (Negative 78856).
The group members from left to right include Henry Moller on the stairs and
the drummer August Rieck. Standing from left to right are Fred Moller, Pastor
Windolf, ?, August Stibbe, August Muller, Henry Muller, Charles Muller and
Jack Rieck. Seated are Harry Stibbe, Ferdinand Kruger, Bill Topp and Joe
Muller.

15. First dwelling of a German settler, Rosewood?, Queensland, ca.
1880. (Negative 168500). German settlers photographed in front of
their home, possibly at Rosewood, Queensland, around 1880. Caption:
Erste Wohnhutte eines Deutschen Ansiedlers (translation: First hut of a
German settler).

16. German family outside a farm building in the Bethania area,
Queensland, ca. 1871. (Negative 20265). Unidentified German farm
property in the Bethania area near the Logan River. A horse-drawn wagon
appears in the foreground. The family, including children, are posed in
front of the farm building which has a shingled roof.

17. Lutheran Church at South Brisbane, St. Andrew's
Church at North Brisbane and the German Club
at Woolloongabba, Brisbane, 1912. (Negative
20711). Images of the Lutheran Church in South
Brisbane, St Andrew's Church in North Brisbane and
the German Club in Woolloongabba. Also included
are the German Imperial War Ensign, the British
White Ensign and the Maltese Cross.

18. German Empire celebration at Enoggera,
Brisbane, 1908. (Negative 39297). Various
depictions of the German Empire
celebrations at Enoggera, Brisbane, with
crowds dressed up for the occasion. The
German Eagle is imprinted on the top
image.

19. Kangaroo on board
the German
warship
'Karlsruhe', 1934.
(Negative 33866).
The kangaroo
'Boonah' on board
the 'Karlsruhe'. The
kangaroo was later
placed in the town
Karlsruhe's zoo in
Germany. It was still
there in 1941.

20. John Nicholas Beit. (Negative 135901).
German immigrant to Sydney who established
John Beit and Sons, a company who
introduced German labourers into New South
Wales. His son William became a partner in
Westbrook Station.

21. Carl Dickfos and wife, married for 60 years,
ca. 1931. (Negative 107666). Mr and Mrs Carl
Dickfos emigrated from Germany in 1860s and
married in 1871. Carl is buried at Colleyville
Cemetery.(Description supplied with
photograph.)

22. Gottfried Wagner. (Negative 11128).

23. Wilhelm Zornig. (Negative 40941). Wilhelm Zornig,
known as Bill, was the first Australian-born son of
Eagleby pioneer farmers Tomm and Abel Zornig. He
was working coastal ships to far north Queensland
until the 1891 Maritime Strike, then joined the
Queensland Railways and became a steam train
driver. (Description supplied with photograph)

24. Arrival at Boonah Railway Station of sailors from
the Karlsruhe (ship), 1934. (Image Number
ba0562). German sailors from Karlsruhe (ship) on a
good-will visit to Australia. The fleet of new motor
vehicles was at hand to take the sailors around the
district. (Information taken from: Pfeffer, C. K., The
Fassifern Story, 1991)

25. Johannes Christian Brunnich (1861-1933). (Negative 182233).
Immigrating to Australia and arrived in Brisbane early in 1885. He
married Kate Terry in 1886 and became chief chemist and mill
manager for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Homebush,
Mackay, and early in 1897 was appointed chemist in the Queensland
Department of Agriculture. Please read more inforamtion from the
Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2006, retrieved 11 February 2009,
from <http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070464b.htm>)

26. Presentation of medals on board the Senator
Versmann, Brisbane, 1899. (Image Number
12036). Presenting medals to German veterans of
the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War.

27. German settler and his family, Rosewood Scrub,
ca. 1880. (Negative 79545).

28. Old quarry site and German Club in
Woolloongabba, ca. 1888. (Negative 159524).

29. Advertisement for The Premier Butchery, South Brisbane, 1933. (Negative 19791). Advertisement for The Premier Butchery of Otto Shuren in
Stanley Street, South Brisbane, 1933, from the Brisbaner Deutsche Turn-Verein 1883-1933. The advertisement reads in English as: Only first class
mutton, pork and veal as well as pickled meat is sold. We give rural orders special attention. Wholesale butchery for maritime supply, etc.
(Description supplied with photograph.)

30. Advertisement for A. Wegener & Son, Cash Grocers, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, 1898. (Negative 108185). A. Wegener & Son,
Cash Grocers advertised to the German speaking population. Text is in German.

31. Johannes Christian Brunnich. (Negative 182224).

32. German clergymen and
Marburg residents. (Album:
APE-64). Back row, left to
right:n Rev. G. M. Rice : Otto
Krueger. Front row seated,
left to right: Rev Windolf;
Cael Kreuger. (Description
supplied with photograph.)
Possibly taken during the
Conference of German
Baptist Churches.

33. Twin cupolas decorate the German Club in
Woolloongabba, Brisbane, 1907. (Negative 48347).
Signage on the front of the German Club in Vulture
Street reads 'Brisbane Deutcher Turn Verein AD
1890'.

34. German Consul's wedding in 1901. (Negative
177767). Herr Von Ploennies, the Queensland
Consul for Germany, married on 9 April 1901.

35. Second German Clubhouse, East Brisbane, ca. 1896.. (Negative 168483). The
second German Clubhouse opened in 1890 and served for 43 years. It housed a
ballroom, bar, library, kitchen and dining room, billiard room and skittle alley
(Information taken from: F. J. Jenner, Die Geschichte des Vereins, geschrieben
anlaesslich seines 75... = The history of the German Club, written on the occasion
of the Club's 75th anniversary, 1883-1958, 1958).

36. Family of Carl Heuschele and his wife Anna in
Middle Ridge, Queensland. (Negative 142721).

37. Fraulein Elli Beinhorn at the opening of the
William Jolly Bridge in 1932. (Negative 102624).
Bridge on Wednesday 30 March 1932. Fraulein
Beinhorn had just completed a solo flight from Berlin
to Australia. She started her flight in Berlin on 4
December 1931 and arrived at Archerfield
Aerodrome on 29 March 1932. She flew a Klemm 80
h.p. monoplane. (Description supplied with
photograph.)

38. Wilhelm Carl and Ida (nee Barens) Heindorff.
(Negative 86440). Photograph taken in Germany.
(Description supplied with photograph.)

39. Wedding of Friedrich Wilhelm Venz and Anna Luise Poelitz, Templin, 1899.
(Negative 20517). Friedrich and Anna Luise were married at Dugandan on 20
April 1899. Family and friends of the bride and groom are gathered for this
photograph. The bride and groom sit, with arms linked, in the second row on the
left. Wilhelm Poelitz, the bride's father is in the third row on the left. Children
seated on the left have taken their shoes off and one guest, standing in the back
row, is pouring himself a drink.

40. Portraits of members of the Brisbane German Club, Brisbane, 1907. (Negative 173122). Names
appear under each small portrait of the members of the Brisbane Deutscher Turn-Verein.

41. External view of the Deutscher Turn-Verein
building, Brisbane. (Negative 190432).

42. Social gathering at the German Club, Brisbane,
ca. 1913. (Negative 54068).

43. Field ambulances wait at Kantara for the
wounded from the front, ca. 1916. (Negative
182325). Fighting between the Allied troops and the
Turks and Germans took place around Kantara, on
the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, in February
1915. (Information taken from The long, long trail
website, 2005, retrieved on 24 May 2005, from
<http://www.1914-1918.net/palestine/suez.htm>)