Missionaries Buchta and Stapf with killed lion, Tanzania, ca.1929-1940

Photograph of deacon Hans Buchta and missionary Karl Stappf posing with guns next to a killed lion.; Hans Buchta (1902-1958), from Upper Franconia, served the Leipzig Mission as a deacon in Arusha from 1930 to 1939. Apart from working in Naverera in 1932 to 1935.; Karl Stapff (1906-1979), from Schlettau in the Ore Mountains, served the Leipzig Mission as a foreman from 1929 until the Second World War. He led construction works in Shigatini, Mamba, Mbaga, Naberera, Nkoaranga and Wudee. He was at first stationed in Makumira. In 1935 he moved to Marangu. There he married Nurse Elfriede (“Frieda”) Wetzel in the same year.