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Friedrich Wohnsiedler (born November 23, 1879 in Eberbach am Jagst , Kingdom of Württemberg ; † February 10, 1958 in Gisborne , New Zealand ) was a German-New Zealand winemaker in the Hawke's Bay region in New Zealand.

Life

Friedrich Wohnsiedler was born on November 23, 1879 as the son of the farmer Johann Friedrich Wohnsiedler and his wife Katharina Magdalena Fuchs , in Eberbach am Jagst (today Mulfingen ), in the Kingdom of Württemberg. He grew up in the Lutheran faith.

Settlers emigrated to New Zealand around the turn of the century and initially worked in the meat industry in Lower Hutt and Woodville . In 1907 he traveled to England and met his future wife Anna Stein , born on June 12, 1881, who also came from Eberbach am Jagst. After a stay in Germany, they both traveled to New Zealand, where the settlers married Anna Stein on May 14, 1910 in Auckland . The marriage resulted in three daughters and two sons. One daughter died shortly after she was born in 1916.

A few years later, settlers moved with his family to Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island and opened a butcher's shop for pork, poultry and delicacies there. But when newspapers in New Zealand reported about atrocities by the German military in Europe during the First World War , anti-German feelings and hatred against Germans erupted on New Year's Eve 1914/15, including the settlers. There were reports after around 2,000 people marched through the street, throwing stones and bottles into the shop windows of the shop and the apartment of the settlers, expressing the fact that as Germans they did not want them in Gisborne . Settlers closed his business and then worked as a wage laborer on a farm near Matawhero , west of Gisborne .

In 1917 he bought 10  acres of land near Waihirere , 10 km northwest of Gisborne city ​​center , built a house there and with his family kept pigs, poultry, bees, planted fruit trees, corn and vegetables and in 1921 laid the foundation for a winery . His first wine, a sweet red drop, was given the simple name "Wine" , but was marketed a little later as " Waihirere " . Initially in two gallons large containers in a knapsack on his back to Gisborne transported, followed in the early 1930s in which Wohnsiedler with his son George Madeira , port and sherry produced, the transport in barrels on horseback and in 1935 with a motor vehicle that settlers could afford for the first time.

As a restless and hard worker, settlers demanded a lot from his family, who all had to work on the winery. In 1946 the resident's wife died and from the 1950s onward, resident's health also deteriorated. He died on February 10, 1958 and, like his wife, was buried in the Taruheru cemetery in the west of the city of Gisborne .

After the resident's death, his two sons expanded the wine business, but in 1973 they had to sell the winery to Montana Wines , now Brancott Estate . In 1996 the winery facilities were demolished and the equipment was exhibited in the McDonald Winery's Museum . Today only a plaque attached to a Pōhutukawa tree reminds of the winery itself, which indicates its former existence at the former location of the winery.

literature

Web links

  • Monty Soutar : George and Friedrich Wohnsiedler. In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , March 30, 2015, accessed on July 24, 2018 (English, photo by Friedrich Wohnsiedler with his son George).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Cooper : Wohnsiedler, Friedrich . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . 1998.
  2. ↑ Andrew Francis : The 'Enemy in our Midst' . In: ww100 . First World War Centenary Program Office , accessed July 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Grape and the Tradition . (JPG 831 kB) In: Gisborne Photo News . Tairawhiti Museum , accessed July 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Details for Friedrich Wohnsiedler. In: Cemetery record search . Gisborne District Council , accessed July 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Residents, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-New Zealand winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberbach am Jagst , Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1958
Place of death Gisborne , New Zealand