"Strasse in Ipyana. Br. Stolz. Br. Hennig. 1905/6." ("Road in Ipanya. Br[other] Stolz. Br[other] Hennig. 1905/6."). A group of African teenagers standing on a road next to a group of children sitting. Missionaries Stolz and Hennig in the background together with groups of Africans dressed in white. A man dressed in white in the foreground on the right. Huge trees on the sides of the road. Paul Otto Hennig (1857-1928) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he serves as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06. -- Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
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