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Events

22 February 2021 - An unintended destination and altered destiny

Speaker: Debra Burke

22 February 2021
7:30PM

Bethlehem House
Sudholz Pl, ADELAIDE

REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED. Please register by Friday 19 February, by contacting Helen Schubert via email: hschubert@internode.on.net or phone/mobile: (08) 8364 4350 or 0447 740 711

On 21st April 1844, Joachim Gottfried Heinrich LANGBEIN, his wife and child left their homeland to begin a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. However, by January 1845 he had settled in South Australia. This presentation will explore the circumstances leading to this change of destination and how this impacted his family and the lives of others who accompanied him from Mecklenburg to South Australia via New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land. The other families included in this account are: Bannier, Braasch, Dube, Gerhardt, Heinjus, Hellman, Jaensch, Qualmann, Schrepp, Stade and Westphal.

The presenter, Debra Burke, was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia, qualifying as a teacher of history, social science and English to speakers of other languages. After a career of some 37 years in the state education system working mostly with senior secondary and adult students, as well as an adviser in teaching second language learners in mainstream classes, she retired at the beginning of 2016.

Since 2009, family history has become an abiding interest, some might say obsession. She is particularly occupied with exploring the five families from which she is descended who came to Australia from various parts of today's Germany and Poland viz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Baden-Württemberg, the Harz Mountains in Niedersachsen, Niederlausitz in Brandenburg and Niederschlesien in Poland.

22 March 2021 - Growing up in Papua New Guinea

Speakers: Philip and Erich Holzknecht

Monday 22 March 2021
7:30PM

Bethlehem House
Sudholz Pl, ADELAIDE

REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED. Please register by Friday 19 March, by contacting Helen Schubert via email: hschubert@internode.on.net or phone/mobile: (08) 8364 4350 or 0447 740 711

The establishment of the Lutheran mission in New Guinea had an impact on a group of individuals not considered or planned for by the mission hierarchy - namely, missionary children. With local house maids, this was not a problem until those children reached school age. Small groups were initially educated by tutors, but this approach was abandoned in favour of sending children back to school in Germany. A small postwar school in Finschhafen began as a boarding proposition, and after World War 2 was replaced by an in-country boarding school and high school opportunities in Australia.

What was it like growing up in New Guinea as a child of missionaries? Experiences were very varied and the consequences very individual. Philip and Erich Holzknecht discuss their thoughts and stories of growing up at the Kaiapit mission station in Morobe Province as children and grandchildren of German missionaries, and explore how this affected their lives.

19 April 2021 - Centenary of UELCA

Speaker: Dr Dean Zweck

Monday 19 April 2021
7:30PM

Bethlehem House
Sudholz Pl, ADELAIDE

REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED. Please register by Friday 16 April, by contacting Helen Schubert via email: hschubert@internode.on.net or phone/mobile: (08) 8364 4350 or 0447 740 711

This year sees the centenary of the formation of United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia (UELCA). In 1921, several Lutheran synods agreed to merge and so the UELCA was born. It brought together into one church some 58 parishes numbering 12,170 adult communing members. It was a merger of the most significant nature, when one considers the prior history and varied character of the five church bodies involved. It was also a crucial step in paving the way for the creation of the LCA 45 years later.

Dr Dean Zweck will explain the important steps in coming to the point of amalgamation and the significance of this momentous event.

17 May 2021 - Early agricultural methods