German Community in Adelaide

Benjamin Hollister (History Helper Pty Ltd)

Between the time of the European settlement in South Australia and the First World War, German speaking people played an important and influential role in the development of the South Australia. Their names are remembered in many and increasing ways as the divisiveness of the First and Second World Wars passes. Yet there was and is a significant divide in the role of those German speakers living and working in the City of Adelaide, those in the suburbs, and those populating rural areas. The general narrative is that the first groups of Germans settled farming areas while the first urban Germans arrived in the late 1840s and began to populate the city, only for numbers to decrease in response to the finding of gold in Victoria in 1851, and then