GACCQ Projects
Together with the National Archives Australia (NAA) QLD office, GACCQ co-hosted the first seminar in October 2024, which was met with great acclaim. The event launched the digital edition of GACCQ’s “Queensland’s German Connections” book, alongside other insightful presentations. You can see more photos of the 2024 event HERE, and the 2025 seminar is shaping up to be just as interesting, with preeminent German genealogical expert Eric Kopittke sharing his wealth of information
GACCQ Projects
A 2013-14 project initiative of the-German Honorary Consul (Prof. Michael Schuetz); GACCQ played a key role in its set-up and 2015 launch, developing branding, website, regular blogs, and promotions for the new group. GACCQ members have been strongly involved with this Brisbane initiative beyond its first 10 years, and you can listen to a 2016 SBS Podcast about the group HERE
GACCQ Projects
GACCQ Projects
GACCQ’s flagship publication, “Queensland’s German Connections”, was first published in 2012, launched on the ceremonial handover of the Honorary Consul role from the book’s instigator, Detlef Sulzer, to his consular successor, Professor Michael Schuetz, at a public event at Old Government House in Brisbane.
More than a decade later, in 2025, with the exhaustion of availability of the last of the printed copies in GACCQ stocks, this unique publication has now been made available as a digital ‘FlippingBook’ e-publication!
It’s easy for motorists to drive straight past the memorial cairn in this small park in Brisbane’s inner northeast, but it marks the first settlement by German missionaries in 1838 in this once-swampy district.
Detlef Sulzer drove this project to mark a half-century of the Society for Australian-German Student Exchange, the A5 booklet a magazine-style retrospective of this most successful program.
GACCQ’s effort invested in the 2014 three-week visit to QLD by a descendant of Ludwig Leichhardt led to many educational encounters, culminating in the christening of the brand-new jet in a Brisbane hangar.
