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"Baufüher Stapff und Frau und Miss. Leuschke." (Foreman Stapff and wife and miss[ionary] Leuschke.") Photograph of the afore-mentioned persons playing chess in the living room. On the left missionary Leuschke is sitting. Karl Stapff (1906-1979), from Schlettau in the Ore Mountains, served the Leipzig Mission as a foreman from 1929 until the Second World War. He led construction works in Shigatini, Mamba, Mbaga, Naberera, Nkoaranga and Wudee. He was at first stationed in Makumira. In 1935 he moved to Marangu. There he married Nurse Elfriede (“Frieda”) Wetzel in the same year. Elfriede (known as Frieda) Wetzel (1902-2006), from Sorgau, served the Leipzig Mission as a nurse and midwife. In 1933 she was delegated to the mission hospital in Machame. Later she was stationed in Gonja. Her husband was missionary Karl Stapff. Herbert Leuschke (1905-1969), from Saxony, arrived in 1933 in Machame. 1935 he took over the station in Masama. Later he worked as a pastor in South Africa.
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