Hugo Carl Emil Muecke was a businessman and politician in the colony and State of South Australia.
History
Muecke was born the eldest child of Dr. Carl Muecke at Rathenow, near Berlin, and was brought to South Australia by his parents when only seven years of age. They settled at Tanunda, among many other German settlers, where his father became a Lutheran minister, and was later editor of Australische Zeitung, South Australia's major German-language newspaper, but returned to Germany in 1869. Young Hugo went to the local school, and at the age of 16 joined the merchants and shipping agents John Newman & Company of Port Adelaide, who were looking for a young man fluent in both English and German. He soon displayed a high degree of business acumen, and at the age of 24 was made a partner, and on the death of John Newman in 1873, Muecke took over the business, and as H. Muecke and Co. it continued to prosper. He maintained good relations with Adelaide's German community and was appointed vice-consul for Germany in 1877. Five years later he was made Imperial German Consul, retaining that position for 32 years. He was appointed to the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibitionorganizing committee as Executive Commissioner for Germany, responsible for liaising with German exhibitors and guests. He was elected to the Legislative Council for the Central District in 1903, holding that seat for seven years. He was also a prominent member of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce, and served a term as chairman. He was at different times chairman of the Rosewater and the Walkerville District Councils, and a member of the Port Adelaide Council. He took an early interest in the Broken Hill mines, and was made a member of the board of directors of Broken Hill Proprietary in 1892, and in 1914 succeeded John Darling as chairman of directors. He was also at different times on the boards of the Adelaide Steamship Company, the Trustee and Agency Company, the Bank of Adelaide, and the National Life Assurance Company. He was a prominent Freemason and before the war was an active member of the German Club and the Adelaide Club. He died after a long illness and was buried at the North-road Cemetery.
Edwin Charles Muecke married Lillie "Lizzie" Laughton on 29 May 1888
Emilie Caroline Muecke
Alfred Eugen Muecke was drowned with son of W. R. Cave while holidaying at Chowilla, the station of William Robertson.
Dora Muecke society charity organiser
Louis Hugo Muecke married Isabel May Sunter, daughter of Canon Sunter, on 4 April 1899
Walter Le Page Muecke died at Roseworthy after fall from hay waggon
Andrew Percy Muecke married Ethel Eunice Braund on 10 April 1907. In 1884 he was one of four founding students, along with Mamie Brown, Mabel Dodswell and Cassie Thomas, at a school begun by Miss Margaret and Miss Kate Brown, around the kitchen table in their parents' home on Mann Terrace, North Adelaide. The School soon grew too big and moved in 1885 to North East Road, Medindie and became known as The Medindie School and Kindergarten. In 1893 the School moved to its present site and became known as Wilderness School in 1918. It later became an all-girls school.
Dr. Francis Frederick Muecke, a noted surgeon, married Ada Crossley on 11 April 1905
Mina Florence Muecke married Fergus Voss Smith on 9 July 1909
Violet Margaret Muecke married Edward Warner Benham on 21 June 1924
