Carl Sylvius Völkner

Carl Sylvius Völkner was born in Kassel, Hesse, Germany, probably in 1819. Völkner was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand in August 1849. In 1852 he offered his services to the Church Missionary Society. Völkner took charge of the CMS mission station at Opotiki in August 1861. There he worked among Te Whakatohea, who built a church and a school for him.

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Kassel - Hesse - Germany - New Zealand - North German Missionary Society - Church Missionary Society - Opotiki - Te Whakatohea

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Volkner died on March 2, 1865 at the hands of Hauhau militants in Opotiki where the local Anglican church has been named as St Stephen the Martyr in memory of the brutal death by hanging with decapitation and the swallowing of Völkner's eyeballs by the Hauhau leader.

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March 2 - 1865 - Hauhau - Anglican

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