Adolph Bartels

Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels (29 July 1819 – 9 November 1878) was a German-born Australian politician.

[1] He next worked as cigarmaker for retailers Gerke & Rodemann (founded 1849)[3] of 42 Rundle Street, Adelaide.

[1] In the early 1850s he joined the exodus of South Australian men to the Victorian goldfields and after his return opened a tobacconist's shop on his own account on Rundle Street, near the York hotel.

In 1856 he took over the hotel's licence,[6] which he maintained until 1865, when he joined in partnership with G. H. C. Meyers as general agents and grain merchants, with which he was involved until the day he died.

He was diligent in attending to his duties and showed sound business sense in his personal and public life.