Sir Charles Frederick Adermann KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (3 August 1896 – 9 May 1979) was an Australian federal politician and government minister.

Adermann was born at Vernor Siding, near Lowood, Queensland, the son of German immigrants and educated at Lowood and Wooroolin

Wooroolin, Queensland

Wooroolin is a town in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The town is in the South Burnett Region LGA and on the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. At the 2006 census, Wooroolin had a population of 164...

 State schools until he was 13. He joined with other peanut growers in the Kingaroy

Kingaroy, Queensland

Kingaroy is an agricultural town in Queensland, Australia, approximately or about 2½ hours drive north-west of the state capital Brisbane. The town is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways...

 area to press for the establishment of a Peanut Marketing Board and was its Chairman from 1925 to 1931 and 1934 to 1952. In 1926 he married Mildred Turner. He was chairman of the Kingaroy Shire

Shire of Kingaroy

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 from 1939 to 1946.

Political career

Adermann was elected as a Country Party

National Party of Australia

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 member for Maranoa

Division of Maranoa

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 at the 1943 election

Australian federal election, 1943

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. Following a redistribution, he won the new seat of Fisher

Division of Fisher

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 at the 1949 election

Australian federal election, 1949

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. He was appointed Minister for Primary Industry

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)

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 in the Menzies ministry

Eighth Menzies Ministry

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 in December 1958 and was admitted to Cabinet

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 in February 1960. He was responsible for granting additional assistance to rural producers. He was dropped from the ministry in 1967 and he retired from parliament at the 1972 election

Australian federal election, 1972

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 and was succeeded in Fisher by his son, Evan

Evan Adermann

Evan Adermann AO was an Australian politician.Adermann was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, son of Charles Adermann, and was educated at Brisbane Boys' College. He did not complete a medical degree at the University of Queensland and instead became a dairy farmer in Kingaroy...

.

Adermann was appointed a privy counsellor in 1966 and a knight of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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 in 1971. He died in Dalby

Dalby, Queensland

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, survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.