Fedor Kelling

Johann Friederich August Kelling ( born February 11, 1820 Klutz, Mecklenburg -Schwerin, † October 24, 1909 in Nelson, New Zealand) was a German-born immigrants in New Zealand, co-founder of the German settlement Ranzau (near Nelson), community leader and later a member of the House of Representatives for the District of Waimea, a constituency of the former province of Nelson.

Kelling was called in New Zealand officially Augustus John Fedor Kelling and in the short form Fedor Kelling.

Life and work

Germany

Johann Friederich August Kelling was born on 11 February 1820 Klutz in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin, the son of the registrar Johann Joachim Kelling and his wife Louise Catherine Margaret Harms. Kellings two years older brother was Carl Friederich Christian. About Kellings education and vocational training is not known. Both brothers were known as Farmer.

1842 married Johann Kelling Johanna Christiana Friederica lamp in Roevershagen (near Rostock). The marriage produced three children, of which the first child was still born in 1843 in Mecklenburg -Schwerin and the other two children in 1845 and 1848 in Nelson, New Zealand.

1844 Kelling and his brother Carl were won by Count Kuno of Rantzau width castle, lawyer and landowner from southern Schleswig -Holstein, as Agents for a settlement projects in New Zealand. Kuno Rantzau width castle had once acquired, together with Charles Ami de Chapeau Rouge, a Hamburg senator and businessman, seven municipal units in the area around Nelson of the New Zealand Company and planned as a kind of philanthropic investment, preferred to settle families from the Mecklenburg region in New Zealand. Together with the Hamburg businessman Johann Ferdinand Benoit, who at the time commanded the English language is the only one that Kelling brothers should manage the development project.

New Zealand

On the Danish barque Skjold Kelling left with his family and his brother on April 21, 1844 Hamburg and reached Nelson on September 1, 1844. Kelling The brothers settled in Waimea East. Johann Kelling named in recognition to the financing of municipal projects his farm Ranzau without using the "t" in the name. From the establishment of a German settlement, a few kilometers southwest of Nelson was removed under Kellings leadership. But 150 acres of land were not enough for more than 135 settlers. So Kelling could only employ 75 settlers and did not prevent some settlers to Adelaide, Australia emigrated.

Kellings second child was born on 11 October 1845. At the birth of the third child on July 28, 1848 his wife Johanna died. Kelling remarried on 10 February 1855 but his second wife Rosemary Etty died in the same year on August 27, 1855. His third wife Dorothea Wilhelmine Kuskop that he probably met during a trip to Germany and on February 2, 1864 in Klutz had married, died on June 1, 1865 at the age of only 27 years.

1850 extended the Kellings through land acquisitions, the settlement and developed alongside the existing cultivation of grain, hops, fruits, grapes, tobacco, sheep farming. Over the next 20 years the region developed and attracted more German settlers from overseas. 1856 moved Kellings brother Carl with some settlers after sarau, a, founded by the first German settlers in the region Nelson settlement, and there was community leader. Johann Kelling itself remained in Ranzau and maintaining their community. In 1853 he became director of the Settlers Cattle Fair Association and a year later helped the process of the Nelson Agriculture Association building, the first of which he was secretary until 1862. He was for the District of Waimea representatives in the central Board of Education for Nelson and took by choosing a seat in the provincial government of the province of Nelson in 1857 to 1863 and again from 1865 to 1876 a.

Following In recognition of his work as a community leader and its commitment Kelling was born on July 15, 1859 Justice of the Peace ( magistrates ) sworn in as. Less than a year later, he presented himself for the District of Waimea for the House of Parliament and was elected in January 1860. In 1866 he was nominated for the North German Confederation consul in New Zealand and after unification in 1871 under William I, he took over the office for the entire German Reich. For this he was awarded by William I with the Prussian Order of the Crown. Kelling was also a founding member of the Southern Cross Lodge of Freemasons.

Johann Friederich August Kelling died on October 24, 1909, after he had the day before suffering a seizure.