Main assistant Alinuowila in Inamwanga, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1936

"Alinuowila unser Haupthelfer i. Inamwanga." ("Alinuowila, our main assistant i[n] Inamwanga."). A man is sitting on a chair holding a book in his hands. Probably a Swahili church calendar.; 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.