Emil Pohl
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854
Signed the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition. Agitation of the Victorian goldfields started with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting in 1851, but what became known as the Red Ribbon Movement was centred around the Bendigo goldfields in 1853. The Anti-Gold License Association was formed at Bendigo in June 1853, led by George Thomson, Dr D.G. Jones and 'Captain' Edward Browne. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, McIvor (Heathcote), Mount Alexander (Harcourt) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the Red Ribbon Rebellion where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.
Post 1854 Experiences
Emil Pohl was Chairman of the Ballarat German Association in 1857.[1]
- GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
- A meeting was held yesterday, Sunday, 28th June, at the Prince Albert Hotel, for the purpose of erecting a German Lutheran Church and school. Mr Emil Pohl in the chair.
- The particulars with regard to the former meeting having been read by the Secretary. Mr Ahrens stated that they had been promisedd the support of the Municipal Council, Bal larat East, for obtaining lite grant of a piece
of land suitable for tlie erection of a German Church and school.
- The report of the treasurer was read, stating the amount of moneys collected up to this day, to be £90 14s.
- Mr John Ahrens proposed special subscrip tion lists to be laid open by the members of the committee, with a view of securing weekly instalments of one shilling per subscriber.
- Seconded by Mr A. Pohl. Carried unanimously.
- Mr Carl Wiesenhavern moved, " That the gentlemen to whom the subscription lists arc entrusted, should render an account to thc Treasurer every fortnight for moneys received."
- Seconded by Mr Ernst Booth. Carried. ' Mr A. Pohl proposed, "That a public meeting for the furtherance of this great object be held every fortnight."
- Seconded by Mr Charles Wiesenhavern.
Carried.<ref>Ballarat Star, 29 June 1857.<ref>
Obituary
See also
Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project
Further Reading
References
- ↑ Ballarat Star, 15 July 1857.
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