Brothers Gemuseus, Marx and Schnabel, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1935

"Die Brüder der Provinzialkonferenz (Gemuseus, Marx, Schnabel.)" ("The Brothers [who constitute] the provincial conference (Gemuseus, Marx, Schnabel.)"). On the left Schnabel, on the right Marx, in the center Gemuseus. Gemuseus, holding a sun helmet, is sitting on a chair. They are wearing dark suits. In the background: a brick building. Taken at the Missionary Conference in Kyimbila in July/August 1935. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874-1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953. -- Walter Marx (1898-1944) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in Rungwe/East Africa from 1929 until 1939. He married Gertrud Rahlfs in 1929. -- Ernst Hermann Schnabel (1904-1953) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in East Africa until the end of the 1930s. In 1934, he married Käthe Prellwitz in Kyimbila. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.