"Xentu. ’Mit dem Klöppel in der Hand’ läutet man auch schön" ("Xentu. 'With the clapper in the hand' one can ring well"). A man standing next to a bell which is fixed at a fence. With his left hand he is holding the construction of the bell. With his right hand he is striking the bell with a little stick or clapper. He is wearing a light coloured trouser, a dark jacket and a hat. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
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