"Christengruppe in Rungwe vor der Kirche. Heini Meyer. Dora Meyer. Br. u. Schw. Zickmantel. Numwagile. Br. Böhme. Schw. Meyer u. Traudel." ("A group of Christians in front of the church in Rungwe.Heini Meyer. Dora Meyer. Br[other] a[nd] Sis[ter] Zickmantel. Numwagile. Br[other] Böhme. Sis[ter] Meyer a[nd] Traudel."). In the rear row brother and sister Zickmantel and Missionary Böhme in the front row the children Heini and Dora Meyer, Numwagile (center) and Sister Meyer with Traudel (all from the left). Imprinted on the image: "Christen in Rungwe. D.O.A. No. 1033." ("Christians in Rungwe. G[erman] E[ast] A[frica] No. 1033."). Included from the box of duplicates. -- Photo is yellowed. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania. -- Ernst Emil Böhme (1870-1938) was a mission artisan of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1900 to 1903 as head of the joinery, as building foreman from 1903 to 1905 in Kyimbila, from 1905 to 1907 in Isoko and from 1907 to 1909 in Rutenganio. Until being interned in 1916 he was head of the station in Ipanya. In 1907 he married Emma, née Gründel. -- Lydia Maria Meyer (1865 in South Africa -- 1907), née Kunick, was a teacher and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine having gotten married to Theodor Meyer (1864-1933) in 1893. Until her death she served in Nyasa, East Africa.
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