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Colourful Arthurs Pass alpine equipment entrepreneur Oscar Coberger was born on 11 April 1902 in the south of Germany. After immigrating to New Zealand, Coberger became a pioneer of recreational skiing. He moved to Arthurs Pass where he opened his alpine equipment shop only to be interned as an enemy alien on Somes Island during the Second World War. His wife Dagmar kept his business afloat during these years but mountaineers and skiiers felt the deprivation as supplies of skis, boots and other equipment from his overseas sporting contacts dried up. A man of strong opinion, Coberger courted controversy and before his internment had become extremely unpopular in his new home. He freely expressed Nazi sympathies, upsetting people whose sons and brothers were fighting in the New Zealand forces. Undeterred by any of this, he returned to Arthurs Pass on his release from Somes Island. He was not welcomed home. A security intelligence officer had travelled to the village to ascertain the feelings towards him. They were universally negative with everyone from the station master to the national park ranger criticising him for his superior attitude and one person described him as a “typical domineering Nazi type”. The visiting official was warned that if Oscar Coberger returned to Arthurs Pass violence in the village would soon follow. But somehow he made his peace with the local community. By 1955 when he was naturalised as a New Zealander a police report found that: “The general opinion of Coberger is that he is of high moral integrity and nothing is known against him. He does not enter into the social life of the township, apart from skiing at Temple Basin and is of sober habit.” The Coberger name became famous in 1992 when Oscar’s grand daughter Annalise became the first Southern Hemisphere athlete to win a silver medal for skiing at the Winter Olympics. Shown here is Oscar Coberger’s application for registration as an Alien. Archives reference: AAAC 504 423 AL38141 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23996836 You can find out more about Coberger and Arthurs Pass here: bobmckerrow.blogspot.co.nz/2009/01/i-am-back-to-normal-jo... For more information email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material supplied by Archives New Zealand |
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| Source | Oscar Coberger Alien registration application |
| Author | Archives New Zealand from New Zealand |
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