The Deutscher Family Wendish Dinner
by John NoackThe Society's 2006 Annual Dinner was held in the Community Centre at Calvary Lutheran Church, Greensborough. The Dinner celebrated the 20th Anniversary of our Society and the contribution of the Deutscher family to Australia. Guest speakers, Chris...
Byaduk Lutheran Church Closed
by John Noack
The closure of Zion/Neukirch Lutheran Church, Byaduk took place on Sunday 17 Sept 2006. The Byaduk area, south of Hamilton in Victoria, was first settled by Johann Rentsch, who purchased land there in August 1860. By 1865, other families, who were...
Grovedale / Germantown Pioneers’ Memorial Stone
by John NoackThe early pioneer families of Germantown (now Grovedale, Victoria) were commemorated with the unveiling of a Memorial Stone at the Germantown Cemetery on 10 Sept. 2006. Local historian June Winter has researched the early German families, many of who...
Herman Pech (1921–2006)
by John PechHerman Pech was born on 25th May 1921 in the Laura Hospital, South Australia, the ninth of eleven children to John and Bertha Pech and baptised in the Appila Lutheran Church. He grew up on the family farm - cereal cropping supplemented by some sheep,...
Richard Dalitz (1925–2006)
by Frank CloseProfessor Richard Dalitz, whose name became a byword in high-energy physics, has died, aged 80. Dalitz, an Australian who took British nationality, spent a decade in the US and held a chair at Oxford University. He was born at Dimboola, in Victori...
News from Germany
by John NoackAngela Merkel new Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel was sworn in as Chancellor on 22 November. Her biography by Professor Gerd Langguth indicates that she was born in 1954 at Hamburg. Her father Pastor Horst Kastner moved the family to a ...Bundoora Heritage Tour
by EditorA report of this activity appears in the August 2005 edition of our Wendish Society Newsletter which can be downloaded from the "Past Newletters" section of this website....
German Heritage Festival
by EditorA German Heritage Festival and Christkindl Market was held on Saturday 20 November from 11 am-4pm at Westgarthtown Reserve, Gardenia Rd, Thomastown. Visitors inspected the Ziebell Farmhouse with its historical displays, heard a recital of classical m...