Carl Friederich Christian Kelling

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Carl Friederich Christian Kelling (born June 21, 1818 in Klütz , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , † December 28, 1898 in Wakefield , New Zealand ) was an immigrant of German origin in New Zealand, co-founder of the German settlement Ranzau near Nelson , community leader and farmer.

Kelling was known in New Zealand as Charles Frederick Christian Kelling .

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Germany

Carl Friederich Christian Kelling was born on June 21, 1818 in Klütz, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as the son of the registrar Johann Joachim Kelling and his wife Louise Catherine Margarethe Harms . Kelling's two years younger brother was Johann Friederich August . Nothing is known about Kelling's school and professional training. Both brothers were known as farmers.

In 1844, Kelling and his brother Johann were won over by Count Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg , a lawyer and landlord from southern Schleswig-Holstein , as an authorized representative for a settlement project in New Zealand. At that time, Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg, together with Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge , a Hamburg senator and businessman, had acquired seven parts of the settlement in the Nelson area from the New Zealand Company and was planning to move families from the Mecklenburg region to New Zealand as a kind of philanthropic investment . Together with the Hamburg merchant Johann Ferdinand Benoit , who was the only one who spoke English at the time , the Kelling brothers were supposed to manage the settlement project.

New Zealand

On the Danish barque Skjold left Kelling with his brother on April 21, 1844 Hamburg and reached Nelson on September 1, 1844. The Kelling brothers settled in Waimea East. Kelling's brother named the homestead Ranzau in recognition of the financier of the settlement project , without using the "t" in the name. The settlement became a German settlement a few kilometers southwest of Nelson under his brother's leadership .

On April 1, 1850, Kelling married Anna Büschl in Ranzau. The marriage had twelve children, four daughters and eight sons. In 1850 the Kelling brothers expanded the settlement through land purchases and developed sheep farming alongside the existing cultivation of grain, hops, fruits, grapes and tobacco. Over the next 20 years the region developed and attracted more German settlers from overseas. In 1856 Carl Kelling moved with some settlers to Sarau , a settlement founded by the first German settlers in the Nelson region , and became a community leader there . Kelling's brother stayed in Ranzau and looked after his community there.

Carl Kelling became a member of the Moutere Educational District's first committee . From 1862 to 1869 he was elected to the Nelson Provincial Council for the Moutere District, followed by the term until 1873 for the Waimea West District. In 1898 he sold his property and moved to Wakefield , where he died on December 28, 1898. His wife died in 1931.

literature

  • James N. Bade : The Nelson German Settlements . In: James N. Bade (Ed.): The German Connection - New Zealand and the German-speaking Europe in the Nineteenth Century . Chapter 6 . Oxford University Press , Auckland 1993, ISBN 0-19-558283-7 , pp. 52-59 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Immigration to New Zealand . In: Robert Lucas and follower (Ed.): The Nelson Evening Mail . Volume XLII . Nelson June 3, 1907, p.  1 (English, online [accessed June 19, 2011]).
  2. ↑ Kelling, Carl Friedrich Christian. Ancestry.com Europe S.à rl, Luxembourg , accessed June 19, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kelling, Carl Friederich Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelling, Charles Frederick Christian; Kelling, Carl; Kelling, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German immigrant in New Zealand and co-founder of the German settlement of Ranzau
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Klütz , Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1898
Place of death Wakefield , New Zealand