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103:'s edict that all Lutheran churches follow the New Liturgy, and rather than comply, many pastors and their followers left for the settled lands of America or the fresh fields of Australia, particularly South Australia. Most were farmers, farm workers and tradesmen, who had left the Fatherland with young families and sufficient assets to cover the inevitable business or farm losses in the first year or so.
280:, steeped in fine German literature and classical music, socialising with and even marrying British settlers of the same social strata, and making the club accessible to cultured British Australians. They loosened their ties to the Lutheran Church, and sent their children to parochial schools. Many of their "leading lights" found membership of the
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The term "German Club" was frequently invoked in the early days of South
Australia, referring to the universal feeling among those German immigrants who applied for and were granted naturalisation as British subjects; "...all the rights and capacities of British-born subjects..." but found they were
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From around 1890 maintenance of the Albert Hall was neglected and at a special general meeting held by the German
Freehold Company, Ltd., owners on behalf of the club, accepted the offer of ÂŁ4,000 by the Salvation Army for the property. From January 1899 the Club met in a house owned by Patrick Gay
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It had cost a little over ÂŁ2,000, and was entirely paid for by fund-raising activities, and through every member contributing ÂŁ1, which was to be repaid, interest free, out of profits. The scheme backfired however: membership dropped dramatically and the focus of those remaining was on repaying the
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The church was the first and most important focus of community life, but many had a need for a social and cultural life away from the Church. The German Club was formed, deliberately, to cater for educated
Germans who wished to retain and foster German language and high culture in their new land.
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The SĂĽdaustralischer
Allgemeiner Deutscher Verein (SAADV), later South Australian German Association, was founded in 1886 as a direct competitor to the Adelaide German Club. It appealed to the working and artisan classes who lived in the city and near suburbs in generally working class
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Germany for economic reasons: with few skills and little education they had been left behind in the industrialization of the country, the first to be retrenched in times of recession and the last to be rehired, they saw South Australia as a chance for well-paid
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and other areas, and by hard work, thrift and their policy of diversified farming, they prospered. Few had
English language skills, and they formed tight-knit communities who only needed to communicate with the outside world in the buying and selling of
351:. The Association, as the Club before it, was opposed by the Lutheran Church who saw clubs as secular and godless and the association with its initial socialist leanings were against the conservative traditions of the Church.
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Early organisations to which German immigrants specifically belonged include the
Macclesfield United English and German Rifle Club (1851), German Rifle Club (1853), German Glee Club, and several Liedertafels, notably
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in the city from the early 20th century, until the building was sold in 2019 for $ 3.5 million in order to pay off its debts. The German Club was open to the public as a restaurant, and was also used as an
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146:, prospered. and encouraged friends and relations with needed skills to join them. English language skills were an important tool for this class of migrant, and many became naturalized British subjects.
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areas which in the main consisted of small attached houses in the east end of
Adelaide. The Association concentrated on social evenings and folk culture, as exemplified by the
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Membership of the
Association/Club rose from 170 in 1950 to 2,000 in 1986; a result of the large post-war intake after 1952. However numbers declined to 1,000 by 1995 and to 893 by 2003.
245:, and in 1878 started building their own magnificent clubhouse at 89 Pirie Street, which was opened in July 1879. They then embarked on construction behind the clubhouse, of Adelaide's
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were intensely proud of their resurgent country; their loud nationalism was to bring other German settlers, with no sympathy for the old country, under suspicion during the
134:, and a different class of refugee: political rather than religious; skilled artisans, merchants and professionals to a large degree, exemplified perhaps by Rev.
226:, J. A. Senn, O. Ziegler, C. Gunther and Uhlmann. One service the German Club provided its members was a Sick Fund, which 1868 became a separate organisation.
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more beneficial to their social and business success, and left the German Club.
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debt, to the detriment of their social and cultural program.
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died in 1840 and religious persecution abated. Then came the
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