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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Carl August Kulsch

Mr. Carl August Kulsch, who is Leading Fitter of the Finishing Department of the Railway Workshops at Eastown, was born at Königsberg, Prussia, in 1846. Apprenticed at the Austendorf Foundry for four years, he subsequently worked at his trade as a fitter on the Berlin - Hamburg Railway and as leading fitter on the Tilsit-Insterburg Railway, and afterwards at the Portland Cement Factory, at Dirschan, as machine master. After serving in the Franco-Prussian war, he shipped as engineer on the ship “Shakespeare,” bound for Wellington. Since arriving in the Colony in 1876, Mr. Kulsch has worked at bush-falling, at Messrs. Richter, Nannestad and Co.'s sawmill, Palmerston North, and as a fitter at Mr. Murray's foundry, Wanganui. He became a fitter at Eastown Workshops in 1880, and was promoted in 1892 to the position he now holds. As a Forester he is attached to Court Roderick Dhu, Wanganui. In 1872 Mr. Kulsch was married to a daughter of Mr. M. Wittenberg, of Danzig, and has two sons and two daughters.