The school youth in Elukolweni, South Africa East, 1933

„Elukolweni. Die Schuljugend“ („Elukolweni. The school youth“). Group portrait of about fifty children or young people standing, respectively. The girls are wearing dresses and the boys are predominantly dressed in shorts, shirts and jackets. On the right side a man in a suit. Apparently, the youngest pupils are standing on the left side and the oldest on the right side.; 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).