Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (born 1819)

Carl Sylvius Völkner

German Protestant missionary

Carl Sylvius Völkner was a German-born Protestant missionary active in the North Island of New Zealand during the mid-nineteenth century. He is famous for being tried and executed for espionage by members of the Pai Mārire faith at his church in Ōpōtiki, in the Bay of Plenty.…