Why Did Germany Migrate To Australia
. The Australian government was initially hesitant in permitting entry to the many Jews who wanted to come but in 1938 it allotted 15000 visas for victims of oppression. Between 1850 until World War I German settlers and their descendants comprised the largest non-British or Irish group of Europeans in Australia.
Following World War I another stream of Jewish immigrants came and when the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933 many German Jews came to Australia. REASONS FOR GERMAN MIGRATION TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA The principal reason for German migration to South Australia was religious persecution. A number of Germans such as Augustus Alt appointed the first Surveyor of Lands on May 1787 the astronomer Carl Ludwig Rümker and Phillip Schaffer who established one of the earliest vineyards in Australia played key roles in the early development of New South Wales.
In the late 1930s many Germans and Austrians fled from Germany in order to escape Hitlers persecution of artists intellectuals and Jews.
Around 10000 migrated during the gold rush in the 1850s. The sydney colony was seriously lacking manpower and was actually decreasing in population. However in the first half of the 20th century Germans living in Australia became the subject of social isolation suspicion and persecution surrounding the World Wars. As farm workers in particular the German immigrants were valued for their steady industriousness and the origins of South Australias wine industry are credited with individual German families.
