An outdoor meeting, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1938

"Eingeborenenversammlung im Freien. In Kidugala." ("Meeting of Africans outdoors. In Kidugala."). A crowd of people sitting on the ground in front of the church. One African man wearing a white suit is holding a speech. On the left: European missionaries are sitting on benches. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and after having served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi until 1929 and in Utengule until 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.