Background
Rischbieth was born in Neustadt am Rubenberge, near Hanover, Germany and emigrated to South Australia in 1853 with a number of young German migrants.
Rischbieth was born in Neustadt am Rubenberge, near Hanover, Germany and emigrated to South Australia in 1853 with a number of young German migrants.
He worked for a time in the drapery of R. B. Lucas in Hindley Street, but was hampered by his imperfect English. In 1869, he succeeded Robert Alfred Tarlton as managing director of the company. In 1875 Rischbieth retired from active management of G. & R. Wills & Company, but continued to act as an agent for George Wills, who had long before returned to London.
Rischbieth was a Director of the Commercial Bank of South Australia at the time of its collapse.
Pastoralist
She died at Acton Vale, Portuguese Elliot. Their children included:
Mary Louise Rischbieth (2 May 1863 – 1 April 1897)
Charles Frederick Rischbieth (1865 – 22 February 1937) married Nellie Mary Newman on 3 May 1894
Henry Wills Rischbieth (c 1868 – 25 March 1925) married reformer Bessie Mabel Earle (16 October 1874 – 13 March 1967), a niece of William Rounsevell, on 22 October 1898 and moved to Western Australia, where he founded the wool broking firm of Henry Wills & Company
Elizabeth Susan "Lillie" Rischbieth (1867 – 14 June 1929) married accountant George Arthur Jury (c 1851 – 9 April 1932) on 9 September 1890.
Charles Rischbieth Jury (13 September 1893 – 22 August 1958), poet and Professor of English at Adelaide University
George Rischbieth Jury (7 April 1895 – 18 September 1916) was killed at The Somme. Harold Rischbieth Doctor of Medicine Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (c 1875 – 13 November 1943) married Eileen May de la Poer Beresford, a grand-daughter of John Acraman, on 3 May 1916
youngest daughter Hilda Rischbieth married Leslie Gardner Stock on 21 June 1906.