Students in class, Usoke, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Ussoke, Lehrerseminar. Der eingeborene Lehrer, Aaron, sitzt ganz hinten rechts (im hellen Hemd)" ("Ussoke, teachers' seminar. The indigenous teacher, Aaron, is sitting at the very back on the right (in the light shirt)"). The male students are sitting at long tables in a room. In front of each boy a slate, books are lying on the table. The boys' feet are bare. The teacher Aaron at the back. 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).