Karl-Heinz Wüstner

Karl-Heinz Wüstner is a high school teacher in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, teaching English, Art, Geography and Social Sciences. As a local historian his main research interests are emigration from the Hohenlohe region of Baden Württemberg to Great Britain and rural 18^th/19^th century painted furniture.

Karl-Heinz is a committee member of the Historical Society of Württemberg-Franconia and staff member of a local museum displaying painted furniture. He writes books and articles and has given talks at numerous conferences and seminars, both nationally and internationally.

In September 2012 he lectured at the Anglo-German Family History Society’s 25^th Birthday Conference in Liverpool.

Presentation

Sausages, Bacon and Pork Pies

Culinary Paths to Success for 19^th Century German Immigrants

During the 19^th century German Pork butchers were a significant group of immigrants settling mostly in London and the prospering industrial cities of northern England. During this period as more and more women were employed in manufacturing industries they had little or no time to cook. These immigrant German butchers were the first to recognise and exploit this emerging need for alternative resourcing and thus they created the first ever “takeaways”. Most of these immigrants originated from a tiny region in southern Germany and my talk explains how from small beginnings they achieved a significant prominence, only to fade unhappily away after the outbreak of WW I.