Ernest Aderman

Aderman was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1894. He was one of eight children born to German immigrant parents Emilie (née Litzow) and Carl Friederich Adermann. His younger brother Charles Adermann entered politics in Australia.{{cite news|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/adermann-sir-charles-frederick-9313|title=Adermann, Sir Charles Frederick (1896–1979)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1993|first=Margaret|last=Bridson Cribb|volume=13|publisher=Melbourne University Press}} He received his education at Lapwood Primary (Queensland), and at Church of Christ Theological College (Melbourne), from where he obtained a diploma in theology. He attended the University of Queensland (Brisbane) between 1920 and 1925, and graduated with a BA. During his student years, he helped out on his parents' farm, and later served the church in Auburn, Sydney.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=296}}

He married Phyllis May Lowther at the Ann Street Church of Christ, Brisbane, on 8 March 1927.{{cite news | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179363468 | title=Wedding: Aderman–Lowther | date=10 March 1927 | work=The Telegraph | access-date=9 September 2016 | page=11}} The couple arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 March 1928 by the Marama.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19280313.2.128.13 | title=Marama from Sydney | date=13 March 1928 | work=Evening Post | access-date=9 September 2016 | page=12}}

Aderman lectured at the Church of Christ Theological College in Glenleith, Dunedin, and ministered in South Dunedin. From 1930, he served the church at Dominion Road, Auckland. He was President of the Churches of Christ in 1936. During World War II, he was a chaplain to the 2nd Taranaki Regiment.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=296}}

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Aderman contested the {{NZ election link|1938}} in the {{NZ electorate link|Dunedin South}} electorate and was unsuccessful against the incumbent, Fred Jones.{{cite web

|title = The General Election, 1938

|url = http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1939-I.2.3.2.36

|publisher = National Library

|access-date = 8 February 2012

|page = 2

|year = 1939

}} He was to stand in {{NZ electorate link|Dunedin Central}} in the cancelled 1941 general election.

He won the New Plymouth seat in an upset victory in 1943 over Rev. Fred Frost, who was also a Christian minister.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=198}}{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=296}} He represented the New Plymouth electorate from 1943 until he retired in 1966.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=179}} Despite his initial win in 1943 being considered a shock result he went on to become New Plymouth's longest ever serving MP.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=296}}

In 1953, Aderman was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1953/37.pdf |title=Coronation Medal |work=Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette |issue=37 |date=3 July 1953 |access-date=14 April 2021 |pages=1021–1035}}

In 1957, he was Senior Whip, and from 1958 to 1960, he was Junior Whip under Geoff Gerard.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=280}} In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

Aderman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for public and political services, in the 1967 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=44212 |date=1 January 1967 |page=44 |supp=3}}

Aderman died on 27 February 1968, and his ashes were buried at Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth.{{cite web |url=http://www.newplymouthnz.com/CouncilAtoZ/CemeteriesAndCrematorium/CemeterySearch.htm |title=Cemetery search |publisher=New Plymouth District Council |access-date=9 September 2016 |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826013248/http://www.newplymouthnz.com/CouncilAtoZ/CemeteriesAndCrematorium/CemeterySearch.htm |url-status=dead }}

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• {{cite book |last = Gustafson |first = Barry |author-link = Barry Gustafson |title = The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party |year = 1986 |publisher = Reed Methuen |location = Auckland |isbn = 0-474-00177-6}}
• {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}
• {{citation |title = [New Zealand National Party ephemera, 1935-1945, including election propaganda and pamphlets, etc.] |place = n.p. |publisher = New Zealand National Party |date = 1935–1945}}
• This collection [housed at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington] contains a pamphlet authored by Aderman.

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