Carl Zoeller

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. Was a pioneer medical and veterinary agent. Zöller/Zoeller PATERSON, Robert. 'Carl Zoeller: a pioneer medical and veterinary agent ', Health, history and horizons. [Edited by] John Pearn. Brisbane: Amphi on Press, 1992 (pp.263- 276, 400). LT 610.994 H34P PATERSON, Robert. Internee 1/5126. Annerley, Qld.: Robert Patterson, 1983. LT 940.547294 P27I Karl Zöller (1868-1926) was born in Grenzhausen, Germany, the second son in a family of 8 children. He left for Australia in 1885, on the Marsala, arriving at Melbourne in August. Karl worked as a clerk, and changed the spelling of his name to 'Carl Zoeller'. In 1886 he was sent to Brisbane, first as bookkeeper, then as Queensland traveller. The firm closed in 1889. Carl then left for New Zealand, sailing on the Anthons, where he remained 4 years before sailing for New York and Europe (visiting Grenzhausen in the summer of 1895). In Europe he secured a number of agencies, then, in November 1895, left Bremen for Australia, and opened a store in Brisbane, in early 1896. Carl's firm became 'Zoeller and Ross Ltd.' A Sydney branch was managed by D.H. Ross. In 1898 he married Minnie Luya. They had 5 children: (1) Richard (1902-1903);(2) Lisette (born 1905); (3) Herbert (born 1908); (4) Mary (born 1910 ); and (5) Barbara (born 1914). Carl became a naturalised British subject in 1908. In 1912 he built a private hospital, together with a French-Canadian friend, Dr. Euchariste Sirois, and at the same time gave backing to an American friend, Fred Peters, who had a formula for manufacturing ice cream (which became well-known as 'Peters Ice Cream'). World War I, which broke out in 1914, had the effect of turning Carl's world upside down: 'Zoeller had left Germany at the age of sixteen after being formally discharged from German nationality and was naturalised in Australia long before the clouds of war had gathered. He was married to an Australian woman and they were raising an Australian family. His very successful business was based on personal initiative and not on inherited capital. In short, he saw himself as an adopted Australian and he was soon to make the 'mistake' of stating that publicly.' By speaking out, Carl exposed himself as a target for anti-German feeling. He was the first person to be prosecuted under the new Trading with the enemy act (he was fined £100 for having ordered, from a Stockholm firm, medical instruments, made in Berlin). In November 1915, the Acting Secretary of the Department of Defence wrote to the Chief of General Staff: 'amongst others Dr. Hirschfeld, Carl Zoeller and Yany Sichenhagen [i.e. Charles Eschenhagen] all ought to be interned as really it is very bad up here in Queensland.' In January 1916, the Chief of General Staff wrote: 'the Minister has approved of the internment of F. Monzel, C. Zoeller and Dr. E. Hirschfeld '. They were arrested in February. The Brisbane Courier reported, on 16 February, that 'Dr. Hirschfeld (former Consul for Germany), Mr. Carl Zoeller a nd Mr. F. Monzel (Editor of Zeitung)' had been detained for internment. Within two days of his detention, Carl formally applied for release. In April 1916, he was sent to 'the concentration camp at Holdsworthy in New South Wales'. Carl's applications for release were all refused. World War I ended in November 1918, but Carl remained in detention. In January 1919, the Defence Department recommended Carl's 'denaturalisation'. In October he was deported from Australia, on the Valencia. Carl arrived at Hamburg, and made his way to Grenzhausen. Minnie's attempts to have Carl re-admitted into Australia were met with refusals. Minnie then applied for a passport, was refused, but was instead issued with a permit (which gave her nationality as German) to leave Australia. Minnie and her children left Sydney in June 1922, on the Medic, arriving at Southampton in July (where they were re-united with Carl), then sailed for Hamburg and made their way to Grenzhausen. Conditions in Germany were harsh. Carl decided to send his family back to Australia. Minnie and the children, with the exception of Mary, left in 1924. Mary stayed with her father. She subsequently went to England to complete her schooling. Carl's applications for return to Australia were consistently refused (permission for resident status in New Zealand was also refused). He then applied for resident status in South Africa, which was granted, and sailed from London, in June 1926, on the Bendigo. In November 1926 ('believing that his continued existence was a liabilty to his family and overwhelmed by despair'), Carl killed himself. Photographs, copies of documents, references, and appendices ('an account of the outbreak of Spanish influenza at Holdsworthy as published in Stead's review on 6 March 1920', and 'the full contents of the debate on the question of 'Deportation' held in the House of Representatives on 15 August 1919 together with replies given on 21 August 1919') are included.

• connection. Richard Paterson 's connection to Robert is as follows:

Richard Patterson
His father is James Patterson (1936)
His father was Alec Patterson who married Mary Zoleller (1910)
Her father was Carl Zoeller (1868) who married Minnie Luya (1874)
Her father was Abraham Luya (1837) & he also had Jessica Luya (1867) who married Hezekiah Martin (1861)
They had Catherine Martin (1893) who married Charles Radcliffe (1891)
They had Mary Radcliffe (1923) who married Henry Stubbs (1916)
His father was Arthur Stubbs (1887)
His father was Albert Stubbs (1856) who married Maria Hazelgrove (1862)
Her father was Robert Hazelgrove (1842)
His father was William Hazelgrove (1821) who married Anne Plumbe (1803)
She also married Robert Pearson (1795)
They had William Pearson (1831) who married Susannah Dawes (1841)
Her father was Edward Bannister Dawes (1813)
They had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Carl married Minnie Luya, daughter of Abraham Fleetwood Luya and Eliza Clare, on 9 Aug 1898. (Minnie Luya was born on 28 Jun 1874 and died on 3 Mar 1950.)