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=== In Australia ===
=== In Australia ===


Bartels worked for a year worked as a labourer for Seppelt's son Bruno who was experimenting with tobacco and other crops at Seppeltsfield.
'''Heinrich Ludwig Vosz''' (3 May 1812 – 9 March 1886),  was  born in Hanover in humble circumstances, and when quite young moved with his parents to Hamburg, where he had to work for a living from age 12. At 15 he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually was able to set up in business on his account. He was doing well until the European revolutions of 1848, which destroyed his business, leaving him bankrupt. He emigrated to South Australia aboard ''Alfred'' with his wife and two young sons arriving in December 1848. He started work as a joiner in Ackland Street (now that part of Frome Street between Grenfell and Wakefield streets) and was naturalized in August 1849. In 1848 he was selling furniture and in 1849 had a timber yard in partnership with C. E. Berthau. Then came the discovery of gold in Victoria, and in 1851 he joined the rush to the diggings.


He must have returned to Germany around 1847, as it is recorded that Adolph Bartels and his sister Sophie Maria Johanne Henriette (or Maria Sophia Johanne) Bartels arrived in South Australia  in April 1848 aboard ''President Smidt'' from Bremen with their parents Adolph Johann Cord Bartels (c. 1793 – 1 June 1863) and his wife Wilhelmine C. Bartels (c. 1794 – 26 November 1861). One Hans J. C. Bartels was naturalized in 1849.
He returned with enough money to set up in business as painter, glazier and paperhanger, and in 1853 opened a retail store at 82 (renumbered c. 1890 as 88) Rundle Street, selling window glass, paints, and wallpaper. The business prospered and he was able to repay, with interest, his creditors back in Germany. The Hamburg ''Reform'' of February 1860 published an article noting his integrity, entitled ''Ein braver Mann''.


He next worked as cigarmaker for retailers Gerke & Rodemann (founded 1849) of 42 Rundle Street, Adelaide. In the early 1850s he joined the exodus of South Australian men to the Victorian goldfields and after his return opened a tobacconist's shop on his own account on Rundle Street, near the York hotel. In 1854 Ludwig Uhlendorf, the licensee of the "King of Hanover" hotel, also on Rundle Street, died. The "King of Hanover", a single-storey affair, was later rebuilt as an 80-room hotel of two-storeys, then in 1916 became part of John Martin & Co.'s department store. The following year Bartels married his widow; they would have four or five children, of whom only one survived to adulthood. In 1856 he took over the hotel's licence, which he maintained until 1865, when he joined in partnership with G. H. C. Meyers as general agents and grain merchants, with which he was involved until the day he died.
Vosz maintained an active interest in current events but apart from a few years (1860–1862) as City Councillor, played no active part in public affairs. He died after several years of intense suffering from neuralgia, which no medical treatment could alleviate, and was buried at the West Terrace Cemetery without ostentation, by Rev. J. Crawford Woods. His business had become the largest of its kind in Australia; his wife and sons had predeceased him and much of his considerable fortune was left to local charities, including £2,000 for the Home for Incurables. Other charities to benefit were The Orphan Home, the Royal Institution for the Blind, the Fund of Benevolence of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Australia, the Benevolent Fund of the Irish Constitution of Freemasons of South Australia, the Adelaide Children's Hospital, and the Cottage Homes.


His wife died in 1862, the date suggesting complications attending childbirth. A year later he married Anna Weidenbach, of Glen Osmond, who would survive him with six children.
In December 1866, Bartels was elected to the Adelaide City Council as councillor for the Hindmarsh Ward, and served for four years, then after a year's absence from the Council was in December 1871, elected Mayor, and re-elected unopposed the following year.
Bartels was characterised as a man who never spoke unless he had something useful to say. He was diligent in attending to his duties and showed sound business sense in his personal and public life. He died in Adelaide from liver cancer at the age of 58.
==Family==
==Family==
Friedrich and Rudolphine had four children:
Friedrich and Rudolphine had four children:
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|Paul Adolph
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|Henry Frank
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|18 Feb 1867 Adelaide
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|Elizabeth Henry
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|Laura Diosma
|Laura Diosma
|2 Mar 1869 Adelaide
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|Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt
|Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt
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|Anna Sophia
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|22 Feb 1871 Adelaide
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|Karl Schinzinger
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|Adelaide Selma
|Adelaide Selma
|9 Jul 1873 Adelaide
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|19 Dec 1874 Port Elliott
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|Iris
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|18 Apr 1876 Adelaide
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|Traugott Carl Louis Rudolf Schneider
|Traugott Carl Louis Rudolf Schneider
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|Selma
|Selma
|1 Mar 1878 Adelaide
|1 Mar 1878 Adelaide  
|23 May 1962 Ambleside
|23 May 1962 Ambleside
|Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz (Hans) Heysen
|Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz (Hans) Heysen
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==Residences in the City==
==Residences in the City ==


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==Work in the City==
==Work in the City ==


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==Published Obituary==
==Published Obituary ==


From ''The Register'', Saturday 30 November 1878:
From ''The Register'', Saturday 30 November 1878:
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==External links==
==External links==




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