Germans in Queensland

This collection of essays considers the contribution made by German settlers in Queensland over the last century and a half of the state’s history. The volume also analyses the role of other German travellers and visitors who have had an impact on the state. Over this period, Germans have been the most important non-British European settler population in Queensland. The work includes chapters on Germans in politics, science, music and the other arts, as well as German migrants, missionaries, and attitudes to the Australian tropics.

Andrew G. Bonnell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Queensland. He studied at the University of Sydney, University of Marburg, and the Technical University, Berlin. He has published books about Imperial Germany, Antisemitism and the German theatre and, in 2011, edited with Peter Lang. Rebecca Vonhoff completed her PhD at the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, having previously studied at the University of Southern Queensland and Freie Universität, Berlin. A contributor to a volume about Europe’s Expansions, she is currently researching German migrant identity and newspapers.

«Wer die Geschichte deutsch-australischer Verhältnisse besser und gründlicher verstehen will, muss diese Publikation lesen.» (Gerhard Stilz, Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 27, 2013)

Contents: Andrew G. Bonnell/Rebecca Vonhoff: Introduction – Barbara Ponierwierski: J.C. Godeffroy and German Migration to Queensland – Chris Herde: German Liberalism in Queensland – Birgit Scheps: Amalie Dietrich (1821-1891) and Queensland – Henriette von Holleuffer: Studios, Music Halls, Hospitals: Young, Urban and Professional - The Unknown Germans in Queensland – Regina Ganter: The Trouble with Women - Lutherans and Missions in North Queensland – Rebecca Vonhoff: Queensland and the Pan-German League. Implications for German-Australian Identity – Andrew G. Bonnell: Missing Links? The Queensland Labour Movement and German Social Democracy before 1914 – Emily Turner-Graham: Dr Rudolf Asmis, the Tropical North and ‘a New Breed of German’ – Christine Winter: Inter-war transformation of German-Australian Identity. The Case of Queensland Pastor Friedrich Otto Theile.