The Story of the Geisler Family

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The Story of the Geisler Family is written by Vicki Butler and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0645588415 (ISBN 10) and 9780645588415 (ISBN 13).

This is the family story of Hulda and Ernst Geisler, born in Germany in the 1840s. In mid 1880s, Ernst's brothers Hermann & Wilhelm and his mother, Susannah, with his uncle, Heinrich, emigrated to South Australia. They set up a fur tanning business briefly in Morgan, S.A , and later in Bowden as "Tannawool Tannery". Hermann Geisler became a well known pioneer, furrier and tanner. His daughter Sylvia continued the business after his death with her husband, Norman Jansen, renaming the business "Jansen Tanners & Furrier". Ernst's son, Alfred "Paul" Geisler, emigrated in 1899. He was a scientist that ran an electrical business in Rundle St., Adelaide and was highly regarded throughout Australia for his extensive fish aquariums that he built in his backyard of his house in Flinders St., Kent Town. Ernst daughter, Helene married Siegfried Rosenberg, of the Jewish faith, in Germany. Successful furniture retailers in Magdeburg and Düsseldorf, they were forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1937 and they emigrated to Adelaide with their teenage children, Ursula & Alfred.