The Honourable  Sir Charles Adermann  KBE
Member of the Australian Parliament for Maranoa
In office 21 August 1943 – 10 December 1949
Preceded by	Frank Baker
Succeeded by	Charles Russell
Member of the Australian Parliament for Fisher
In office 10 December 1949 – 2 November 1972
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Evan Adermann
Born	3 August 1896(1896-08-03) Lowood, Queensland
Died	9 May 1979 (aged 82) Dalby, Queensland
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Country Party
Spouse(s)	Mildred Turner
Children	Evan Adermann
Occupation	Farmer

Sir Charles Frederick Adermann KBE (3 August 1896 – 9 May 1979) was an Australian federal politician and government minister.

Adermann was born at Vernor Siding, near Lowood, Queensland, the son of German immigrants and educated at Lowood and Wooroolin State schools until he was 13. He joined with other peanut growers in the Kingaroy area to press for the establishment of a Peanut Marketing Board and was its Chairman from 1925 to 1931 and 1934 to 1952. In 1926 he married Mildred Turner. He was chairman of the Kingaroy Shire from 1939 to 1946.^[1]

[edit] Political career

Adermann was elected as a Country Party member for Maranoa at the 1943 election. Following a redistribution, he won the new seat of Fisher at the 1949 election. He was appointed Minister for Primary Industry in the Menzies ministry in December 1958 and was admitted to Cabinet in February 1960. He was responsible for granting additional assistance to rural producers. He was dropped from the ministry in 1967 and he retired from parliament at the 1972 election and was succeeded in Fisher by his son, Evan.^[1]

Adermann was appointed a privy counsellor in 1966 and a knight of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. He died in Dalby, survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.^[1]

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