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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005738b.htm person Noetling Friedrich Wilhelm AACR2 17 July 1857 October 1929 Place of Birth Mannheim, Germany Place of Death Baden Baden, Germany Geologist Mining engineer Fritz Noetling was a geologist and mining engineer, and enthusiastic collector of palaeontological and cultural materials. During his 18 years working for the Geological Survey of India in the Punjab, Baluchistan and Burma, he made extensive collections, many of which he sold to museums in Europe. On moving to Tasmania in 1906 he was employed mainly as a mining engineer. He was elected a member of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club and the Royal Society of Tasmania, where he served as office bearer between 1908 and 1914. Noetling resumed his collecting activities, assembling over 1,000 items: many of these are now in the Leipzig Ethnological Museum. By the end of 1911 he had published over 20 papers in the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, mainly on Aboriginal stone tool technology. His mining reports and papers on Tasmanian Aborigines attracted some criticism. In 1915, in the midst of anti-German sentiment stirred up during WWI, Noetling was arrested and interned. In 1919 his naturalisation was revoked and he was repatriated to Germany. 1887 1903 Career position - Employed by Geological Survey of India 1894 Career position - Corresponding Member, Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 1906 Career position - Member, Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club 1906 Career position - Member, Royal Society of Tasmania 1906 1906 Life event - Moved to Tasmania 1908 1908 Life event - Naturalised as a British subject 1909 1914 Career position - Trustee, Tasmanian Museum 1910 1919 Career position - Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Tasmania 1915 1915 Life event - Arrested and interned during WWI hostilities Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (1863 - )

Trustee 1909 - 1914

 Royal Society of Tasmania (1843 - )

Honorary Secretary 1910 - 1911

 Noetling, Fritz (18570717-19291031)

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 'Noetling, Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Noetling, Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: An ambitious German in early twentieth century Tasmania: the collections made by Fritz Noetling Struwe, Ruth An ambitious German in early twentieth century Tasmania: the collections made by Fritz Noetling 2006 Australian Archaeology 62 31-7 Journal Article: "Making disloyal statements": the case of Dr Fritz Noetling, geologist, anthropologist ... spy? Terry, Ian "Making disloyal statements": the case of Dr Fritz Noetling, geologist, anthropologist ... spy? 2016 Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings 63 1 4-25