24 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Vital records
Note that his name is listed as “Rudolph Martin Chemnitz Kriewaldt.” Perhaps the name Rudolph never took — certainly his mother always called him Martin in her diaries — or he dropped the Rudolph because of anti-German sentiment during World War I.
Birth registration for Rudolph Martin Chemnitz Kriewaldt, more commonly-known as Martin Chemnitz Kriewaldt. Scan provided by his daughter, Helen Young.
27 Saturday Oct 2012
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Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt and her sons, Australia. Photograph contributed by Jonathan Brenz Kriewaldt, 27 October 2012.
Back row (l-to-r): Emil; Martin, Eddie, Fred, Bill
Front row: Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt
20 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Newspapers
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Emil P Kriewaldt (1870-1916), Emma B Eberlein (1872-1948), Frederic C Eberlein (1919-2010), Martin C Kriewaldt (1900-1960)
By FRANK MEYER
Leader correspondent
John Kriewaldt with one of his 22 horse [sic] outside the family cheese factory in 1911.
Many fields of endeavor — law, public office, dairy farming, cheesemaking, and judiciary service constitute parts of this combined family legacy.
Frederic C. Eberlein, former district attorney and now retired, has provided a detailed chronology of a family history that spans both decades and continents.
One member of this enlarged family, Martin C. Kriewaldt, distinguished himself as a professor of law, a barrister, and wound up as a justice of the Supreme Court in Darwin, Australia.
In 1895 the Rev. Emil Kriewaldt and Emma Eberlein were mamed in Shawano. Emma was born near Hermansfort, where she attended grade school, her family then moved to Shawano. Finishing high school at age 16 she returned to Hermansfort to teach, then to Shawano. The local paper reports that at age 19 at a teachers conference she was assigned the topic of “maintaining discipline in a one room school.”
The Rev. Emil Kriewaldt was a graduate of the Lutheran seminary in St. Louis. Soon after their marriage in 1895 he received a “call” to a Lutheran church in a rural area in South Australia.
Martin was the third of four sons.
In 1914 Australia declared war on Germany. Many people of Germian ancestry were subject to persecution, their homes confiscated, imprisoned, books burned, German-made pianos became kindling wood for patriotic rallies.
The family stood firm until the death of the Rev. Kriewaldt in 1915. Unwilling to face persecution alone, she abandoned her parish and home and returned to Shawano, with her four sons and lived with the Eberlein and Kriewaldt families.
One son worked on a ranch in California, another, living with the Kriewaldt family attended the University of Wisconsin school of agriculture and studied cheese making. The third, Martin attended Shawano High School and graduated in 1918. His classmates, among others, were judge Dillett and Louis Cattau.
Martin C. Kriewaldt, in a photo from the 1950s — who graduated from Shawano High School in 1918 — was a justice on the Supreme Court in Darwin, Australia. He died in 1960.
Martin received a regents scholarship and attended the University of California at Berkeley, pursued an honors program and participated in varsity debate.
After two years he transferred to the University of Wisconsin law school at Madison, made law review, graduated with honors, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Vilas medal for forensics.
After the war, he returned to Australia and finished his law training at the University of South Australia law school. He practiced as a solicitor and barrister in Adelaide, and was a professor of real property law at the university, editing a treatise on real property law, still used in Australian and New Zealand law schools.
Commissioned as an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force he served in the South Pacific until the end of the war in 1945. However, he was retained in the military to serve as a judge on a military tribunal which tried Japanese war criminals. The trials, took place on the isle of Morotai — the scene of many atrocities, and included crimes committed against Australian soldiers, depicted in the movie “Bridge Over the River Kwai.”
The world’s attention became directed to the plight of the Australian aborigines, long a persecuted“ people in that land. Judge Kriewaldt was appointed by the prime minister of Australia to replace a “racist judge.” The fairness and temperament of judge Kriewaldt drew exceptional acclaim from the columnist-author Robert Ruark who praised judge Kriewaldt following his sentencing of two wealthy white brothers for “beating six black “aborigines with stock whips.”
The world might be truly proud of Mr. Justice Kriewaldt,” wrote columnist Ruark. At that time such sentencing of white people was extremely rare.
Upon judge Martin Kriewaldt’s death in 1960 the aborigine people accorded Kriewaldt a rare honor and held a ceremonial ritual known as “Corrobore” in his recognition.
A law building in Darwin bears the Kriewaldt name and the capital in Canberra has “Kriewaldt Boulevard.” ”
The Kriewaldts of Australia, the United States and Canada held a family reunion in 1995, the year marking the 1O0th anniversary of their first departure from America.
Attending this event in 1995 were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kriewaldt and Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Eberlein of Shawano, several cousins from Canada plus about 50 Kriewaldts living in Australia.
“I am proud to say that Justice Kriewaldt was my first cousin and my godfather,” said Frederic Eberlein.
It is worthy of note that the Kriewaldt name and reputation are still of great standing and continues in law practice in Australia. Martin Kriewaldt Jr. of Brisbane, Australia is a partner in the largest firm on the continent and serves on several boards of directors. On occasion he visits relatives in Shawano.
Frank Meyer lives in Shawano.
Source: Frank Meyer, “Kriewaldt, Eberlein families of service,” Shawano Leader. Undated photocopy acquired from Frederic C. Eberlein.
08 Monday Oct 2012
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Emil P Kriewaldt (1870-1916), Emil T B Kriewaldt (1903-1977), Emma B Eberlein (1872-1948), Martin C Kriewaldt (1900-1960)
Emil Paul Gerhardt Kriewaldt, his wife Emma Bertha Eberlein, and their four children in 1910. Scanned photograph provided by Jonathan Brenz Kriewaldt, 8 October 2012.
Back row: Emma Bertha Eberlein Kriewaldt
Front row: Friedrich (“Fred”) Wilhelm Adelbert Kriewaldt; Wilhelm (“Bill”) Paul Gerhardt Kriewaldt; Martin Chemnitz Kriewaldt; Emil Theodor Brenz Kriewaldt; Emil Paul Gerhardt Kriewaldt
05 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in Descendant reports
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Emil P Kriewaldt (1870-1916), Emil T B Kriewaldt (1903-1977), Emma B Eberlein (1872-1948), Martin C Kriewaldt (1900-1960)
EMMA BERTHA EBERLEIN was born on 05 November 1872 in Herman, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 27 December 1948 in South Australia, Australia. She married Emil Paul Gerhardt Kriewaldt, son of Wilhelm Kriewaldt and Henriette Garptiz on 07 July 1895 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He was born on 29 March 1870 in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 23 May 1916 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.
Emil Paul Gerhardt Kriewaldt and Emma Bertha Eberlein had the following children:
i. BABY KRIEWALDT was born on 07 April 1896 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia. She died on 07 April 1896 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia.
ii. FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADELBERT KRIEWALDT was born on 07 April 1896 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia. He died on 27 April 1963 in South Australia. He married Frieda (Freda?) Wilhelmine Ahrns, daughter of Christoph Heinrich Ahrns and Elisabeth Wilhelmina Emma Schmaal on 16 February 1927 in Lameroo, South Australia, Australia (Lutheran Chapel). She was born on 02 December 1904 in Bright, South Australia, Australia. She died date unknown.
iii. WILHELM PAUL GERHARD KRIEWALDT was born on 17 December 1898 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia. He died on 09 March 1966 in Stanwell, Queensland, Australia. He married EMILIE MAUDE NOSKE. She was born on 29 January 1900 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. She died on 03 September 1973.
iv. MARTIN CHEMNITZ KRIEWALDT was born on 26 October 1900 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia. He died on 12 June 1960 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He married (1) MARY FINLAYSON in 1925. He married (2) EDITH TRUDINGER on 05 February 1948.
v. EMIL THEODOR BRENZ KRIEWALDT was born on 09 March 1903 in Lobethal, South Australia, Australia. He died on 03 August 1977 in South Australia, Australia. He married Rubina Elsa Wegener on 24 May 1932 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She was born on 29 October 1908 in Palmer, South Australia, Australia. She died on 18 February 2012 in Mannum, South Australia, Australia.
Updated Monday, 29 October 2012
05 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in Newspapers
From DOUGLAS LOCKWOOD
DARWIN, June 12.
Mr. Justice Kriewaldt held a unique appointment in Australian law.
He was constantly called upon to impose penalties on aborigines who not only did not understand the white law but had a separate code of their own.
A Supreme Court Judge in any of the six States presides at perhaps 12 murder trials in his lifetime.
Martin Chemnitz Kriewaldt sat on 35 murder trials in his first seven years year and about 40 altogether.
A majority of those were tribal murders committed on native settlements and missions.
The evidence regularly showed that the black man in the dock had killed a tribesman on orders for his elders. Refusal to do so would have meant his own death at the hands of efficient tribal executioners.
In these circumstances Mr. Martin Kriewaldt was called upon more often than others to temper justice with mercy and always to draw upon his own knowledge of native customs.
Clemency
I never knew him not to be generous when generosity was desirable and the law made it possible.
Albert Namatjira served three months instead of six months’ gaol on a liquor offence because “the big feller judge” as he was known to the natives showed him clemency.
Frequently he allowed his deep understanding of human nature to influence his pronouncements from the bench.
In Alice Springs a month ago he directed that plaintiff and defendant in a civil action should go out in the sun and talk it over. They did.
He had what is perhaps the biggest circuit of any Supreme Court Judge of Australia — the 523,000 square miles of the NT, plus Cocos and Christman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
But I saw him in some odd corners of the outback, including a blistering week at Anthony Lagoon station on Barkly Tableland.
The temperature on the police station veranda where he heard a cattle duffing case was around 110 each day. The judge nevertheless appeared in his red fur-fringed robes on all occasions.
Dignity
Even in that remote wilderness he was determined to uphold the dignity of the court.
I remember a dramatic occasion when an accused man was found to have a .38 revolver in his pocket during the entire time the Judge heard his case.
Someone had forgotten to search him.
Mr. Martin Kriewaldt always helped junior members of the profession but was impatient of poorly prepared briefs. [Editor’s note: The clipping ends here; residue of tape suggests that there was another piece affixed.]
Source: Unidentified clipping, in the Frederic C. Eberlein genealogical files
05 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in Obituaries
The judge of the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Kriewaldt, died in the Repatriation General Hospital, Springbank, on Saturday night. He was 59.
Mr. Justice Kriewaldt, who was appointed to the Territory position in 1952, was admitted to the hospital on May 30.
Mr. Justice Kriewaldt is survived by his wife and five children, three from his first marriage and two from his second.
They are Robert, of Adelaide; Michael, of Cobar (NSW); Martin and Helen, of Darwin, and Mrs. J. Greenslade, of Maitland.
The funeral will be held tomorrow after a service in the Lutheran Chhurch, Flinders street, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Source: Unidentified newspaper clipping, Frederic C. Eberlein genealogical files
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