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the Chatham Islands, a group of islands at the time beyond the eastern boundary of New Zealand,
between late 1839 and 1842 with the co-operation of the German Colonisation Company in
Hamburg, two more attempts at German immigration were made in 1843 and 1844 in the Nelson
region at the top of the South Island, one disastrous (St. Paulidorf) and one successful (Ranzau),
the former being the work of John Nicholas Beit, the German immigration agent for the New
Zealand Company, while the latter was financed by Count Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg. 3
Another, albeit failed, attempt occurred in 1863 when the Government proposed to introduce
German immigrants as ‘military settlers’ in Taranaki with the aid of the Hamburg merchant firm
J. C. Godeffroy & Son and the respected Ranzau leader Johann Friederich August (Fedor) Kelling
as government agent. 4 The scheme involved bringing out some 500 married couples between the
ages of twenty and forty years with up to three children each, i.e. between 1000 and 2500
immigrants in total. 5 Further German-speaking settlements and communities in New Zealand
between 1843 and 1914 were established in the following areas: Northland (Houhora, Awanui),
Auckland (Puhoi, Pukekohe), Waikato (Ohaupo), Taranaki (Inglewood, Midhirst, Stratford,
Eltham, Kaimiro, Ratapiko, Tarata), Hawke’s Bay (Norsewood, Napier, Takapau, Makaretu),
Wellington-Rangitikei (Marton, Rongotea, Halcombe, Carterton), Nelson (Sarau, Rosenthal,
3 See, for example, John Nicholas Beit, Auswanderungen und Colonisation: mit besonderem Hinblick auf die von der
Deutschen Colonisations-Gesellschaft beabsichtigte Begründung ihrer ersten Colonie auf den Chatham-Inseln, nebst
der neuesten Charte derselben und Ansicht der Waitangui-Bay, mit einem Anhange, enthaltend die Entwickelung des
Wakefieldschen Systems, die Bilancen der Neuseeland-Compagnie und ein Schema der nöthigen Diaten fur
Auswanderer. Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke, 1842; Gerda Eichbaum, “Deutsche Siedlung in Neuseeland: Ein
Hamburger Kolonisationsversuch im 19. Jahrhundert”, in: Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Universalgeschichte:
Festgabe für Hermann Aubin zum 23. Dezember 1950. Hamburg: Wihug, 1950, 259-69; Burns, Fatal Success, 243-
45; Rhys Richards, “Pläne für eine deutsche Kolonie auf den Chatham-Inseln”, in: Welt für sich, 60-68; James N.
Bade, “Die deutschen Siedlungen im Gebiet um Nelson”, in: ibid., 69-78; Ruth M. Allan, Nelson: A History of Early
Settlement. With chapters by Nancy M. Taylor and Pamela Cocks; edited with an Introduction by J. C. Beaglehole.
Reed: Wellington; Auckland; Sydney, 1965, 309-52; June E. Neale, Pioneer Passengers: To Nelson by Sailing Ship –
March 1842 – June 1843. Nelson: Anchor Press, 1982, 131-42, 175-77; Jenny Briars and Jenny Leith, The Road to
Sarau: From Germany to Upper Moutere. Nelson: Briars and Leith, 1993; George McMurtry, A Versatile
Community: The History of the Settlers of Central Moutere. Nelson: McMurtry, 1992; George McMurtry, The
Extended Community: Part II of the History of Upper Moutere. Nelson: McMurtry, 2000; James N. Bade, “Deutsche
Einwanderung nach Neuseeland im 19. Jahrhundert”, in: Bade et al., Von Mecklenburg nach Neuseeland:
Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert. Neubrandenburg: Neubrandenburg Regionalmuseum, 2002, 18-28; Peter Starsy,
“We all are Germans here… Mecklenburger aus dem Klützer Winkel auf dem Weg nach Neuseeland 1844: Eine
Spurensuche”, in: ibid., 30-60; “Reisenachrichten der Klützer Auswanderer”, in: ibid., 66-69; Berry, Germans in New
Zealand, 12-44; “Aus den kolonialleben Neuseelands. Die deutschen Ansiedler in Nelson und ihre Schicksale”, in:
Globus 4:3 (1863): 93-95.
4 See Max D. Lash, “Kelling, Carl Friederich Christian 1818 – 1898: Emigration agent, farmer, community leader;
Kelling, Johann Friederich August 1820 – 1909: Emigration agent, farmer, community leader”, in: DNZB 1, 221f.
5 See James Braund, “The Involvement of German Settlers in the New Zealand Wars”, in: Writing Europe’s Pasts:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (Auckland,
New Zealand, July 2001). Eds. Christian Leitz and Joseph Zizek. Unley: Australian Humanities Press, 2003, 15-30;
James Braund, “The New Zealand Government’s Plans to Introduce German Immigrants as Military Settlers in the
Early 1860s”, in: North and South, 77-90.
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