Hugo Friedlander

Hugo Friedlander (1850 – 1 October 1928) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He was born in Kolmar, in the Prussian Province of Posen in 1850. He was the second Mayor of Ashburton. He co-owned the Ashburton Guardian from 1880 to 1885. He left for Auckland in 1918 due to anti-German feelings caused by World War I.