German Migration To South Australia 1800s
. They were opposed to King Friedrich Wilhelm IIIs enforced union of the Calvinist church with the Lutheran church to form a new state church. The attached settlement map shows the extent of the massive German influx into southern Queensland in the mid-late 1800s and until the First World War when German immigration came to a halt.
Immigration History from Germany to Victoria Victorias first German immigrants arrived in 1849 under a British bounty to attract vineyard workers. We hold many records relating to immigration to South Australia from 1836 onwards with a full set of digitised passenger lists from 1845 - 1940. These lists have been transcribed from the original passenger lists by Robert Janmaat of Adelaide.
German immigration peaked in the 1880s and early 1890s and at the census in 1891 the figure had increased to 9 565.
This page focuses on the records about migrants applying to come to South Australia through various government-run schemes. These lists have been transcribed from the original passenger lists by Robert Janmaat of Adelaide. In 1850 some of the earlier German settlers formed the German Immigration Society to help newly arrived German migrants settle in South Australia. The best-known example in German-Australian history is the migration of Old Lutherans from the Prussian provinces of Silesia Brandenburg and Posen to South Australia in the late 1830s.
