Waiting for Brother Blohm, South Africa East, 1930

"Kranke in Baziya warten auf Br. Blohm" ("Sick people in Baziya are waiting for Brother Blohm"). This photograph shows waiting people who are sick. The four people in the front are wearing headdresses, sitting and kneeling. Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Church from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop. -- Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.