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Title
Meal in the hall of the rented mission house, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928-01-10
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Archiv des Evangelisch-lutherischen Missionswerkes (ELM), Georg-Haccius-Str. 9, 29320, Hermannsburg, Germany
Evangelisches-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM)
Hermannsburg Mission
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Description
In the hall on the first floor of the rented mission house in Addis Abeba in front of a window (from left): The interpreter Hans Borinski, Adolf Müller, Dietrich Waßmann sen., and Hermann Bahlburg are seated on trunks and having a meal. Another trunk is serving as a table.
Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Addis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007. -- Adolf Müller (1905-1936) was a mission artisan of the Hermannsburg mission. He started his work as a missionary in Ethiopia in 1927. From 1928 he served in Aira, later in Bedele. He was married to Minna, née Nottorf. In may 1936 he left Bedele with his wife and baby to flee to Addis Abeba. He was killed on the way in an attack on the caravan. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 11.7 x 8.8 cm.
photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m59419 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-ELM-AE-077.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m59419
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-077.jpg
Subject
Food consumption
Men
General views
Time Period
1928-01-10
Place
Africa
Ethiopia
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833
two copies exist

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