Charles Frederick Adermann

Charles Frederick Adermann
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1896–1979 · 82 years old

Born 3 August 1896 in Vernor, Queensland, AustraliaDied 9 May 1979 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Worked on his parents' farm at Wooroolin after leaving state school at thirteen, studying farm management by correspondence, and from 1931 worked his own farm in the South Burnett district. Peanuts had been taken up by local farmers as an alternative cash crop to maize. Even as a minister he liked to spend as much time as possible in the paddocks of his farm near Kingaroy.

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CA Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Adermann 1862–1934 father EL Emilie Johanna Luise Litzow 1862–1961 mother

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? Unknown spouse m. 7 April 1926

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1890s
Born 3 August 1896

Vernor, Queensland, Australia
1910s
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Marriage of brother Friederich August Adermann 17 August 1910

Queensland, Australia
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Marriage of brother Joseph Henry Adermann 1915

Queensland, Australia
1920s
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Death of brother Robert Adermann 1922

Queensland, Australiaaged 34
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Chairman, Queensland Peanut Marketing Board 1925–1931

Queensland, Australia

First term as chairman of the Peanut Board, formed by South Burnett growers under the Primary Products Pools Act 1922-23 after a sharp fall in the 1924 peanut price. Under his chairmanship the board treated, stored and sold the annual crop on behalf of growers through a compulsory collective marketing system.

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Married spouse not recorded 7 April 1926

Wooroolin, Queensland, Australia

Married at St Andrew's Anglican Church, Wooroolin. From 1931 they worked their own farm in the district.

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1930s
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Occupation (Peanut farmer) from 1931

Wooroolin, Queensland, Australia

Worked on his parents' farm at Wooroolin after leaving state school at thirteen, studying farm management by correspondence, and from 1931 worked his own farm in the South Burnett district. Peanuts had been taken up by local farmers as an alternative cash crop to maize. Even as a minister he liked to spend as much time as possible in the paddocks of his farm near Kingaroy.

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Death of father Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Adermann 14 October 1934

aged 72
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Chairman, Queensland Peanut Marketing Board 1934–1952

Queensland, Australia

Second and much longer term as chairman of the Peanut Marketing Board, continuing for nine years after his election to federal parliament in 1943. In 1949 Arthur Calwell alleged in the House that he had used the chairmanship to seek reclassification of his own third-grade peanuts as first grade; Adermann denied the allegation and Prime Minister Chifley declined his request for a formal inquiry.

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Sunday school radio broadcaster, 4SB from 1938

Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

Broadcast a popular children's Sunday school session on Kingaroy radio station 4SB under the name Uncle John, beginning in 1938 and continuing until the last year of his life. A man of deep religious faith, he was president of the Queensland and federal conferences of the Churches of Christ.

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Kingaroy Shire Council 1939–1946

Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

Served on the Kingaroy Shire Council for seven years, alongside chairing the local wartime patriotic fund. The Parliamentary Handbook records him as chairman of the shire council over the same years, where the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Wikipedia describe him only as a councillor; the two accounts are not reconciled here.

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1940s
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Member for Maranoa, Australian House of Representatives 21 August 1943 – 10 December 1949

Queensland, Australia

Won Maranoa for the Country Party at the 1943 federal election, taking the seat from the sitting Labor member Frank Baker. His was the only non-Labor gain at an election that otherwise saw a pronounced national swing to the Curtin government. He was re-elected in 1946 with a swing of over ten per cent, and transferred to the new seat of Fisher in 1949.

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Member for Fisher, Australian House of Representatives 10 December 1949 – 2 November 1972

Queensland, Australia

Moved to the newly created seat of Fisher at the 1949 election and held it at the following eight elections, being returned unopposed in 1955. He retired prior to the 1972 general election after twenty-nine years in the House, and was succeeded in Fisher by his son. He fought for an improved wool marketing scheme and greater Commonwealth extension service grants to encourage improved agricultural techniques.

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1950s
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Chairman of Committees, Australian House of Representatives 22 February 1950 – 1958

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Elected unopposed as Chairman of Committees, the deputy speakership, after the Menzies coalition took government, and held the office for eight years. He twice acted as Speaker during Archie Cameron's absences: while Cameron was in London for the October 1950 reopening of the House of Commons chamber, and for five and a half months from August 1955 during Cameron's illness. Labor opposed several of his re-elections to the chair. He left the office on appointment to the ministry after the 1958 election.

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Minister for Primary Industry 10 December 1958 – 16 October 1967

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Appointed Minister for Primary Industry in the Menzies ministry, returning the portfolio to the Country Party, and admitted to cabinet on 4 February 1960. He was prominent in his party's successful push for further subsidies, grants and other assistance to rural producers, and fought repeatedly in cabinet for an improved wool marketing scheme. By 1966 he stood fifth in cabinet seniority under Harold Holt. He stood down from the portfolio in 1967 at John McEwen's urging and in recognition of his wife's poor health, and was succeeded by Doug Anthony.

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1960s
64
Death of mother Emilie Johanna Luise Litzow 1 July 1961

aged 98
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Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party 11 December 1963 – 8 December 1966

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Elected deputy leader of the federal parliamentary Country Party on the retirement of Sir Charles Davidson, serving under John McEwen. McEwen, concerned about a leadership succession and unwilling to be followed by a man four years his senior, pushed him out of the deputy leadership after the 1966 election in favour of the younger Doug Anthony.

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Death of brother Friederich August Adermann 12 October 1965

Brisbane, Queensland, Australiaaged 79
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Title (Privy Counsellor) 1966

Appointed a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace, entitling him to the style The Right Honourable. The appointment marked the peak of his political career, when he stood fifth in cabinet seniority under Prime Minister Harold Holt.

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Death of brother Ernest Phillip Adermann 27 February 1968

New Zealandaged 73
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Death of sister Helena Adermann 9 September 1969

Queensland, Australiaaged 85
1970s
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Death of brother Joseph Henry Adermann 10 November 1970

Kingaroy, Queensland, Australiaaged 80
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Title (KBE) 12 June 1971

Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, appointed in the year before his retirement from parliament.

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Died 9 May 1979

Dalby, Queensland, Australia
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Buried 1979

Taabinga, Queensland, Australia

Interred at Taabinga cemetery near Kingaroy. The funeral was attended by Doug Anthony as acting prime minister and Joh Bjelke-Petersen as premier of Queensland.

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