Veterans of the mission, South Africa East, [s.d.]

„Zwei Veteranen der Mission: links Timoto Mzengelo, Hirte von Br. Baudert, Baziya, rechts Herrmann Mtselu, Tabase, Pferdeboy Br. v. Calkers“ („Two veterans of the mission: left Timoto Mzengelo, brother Baudert’s herdsman, Baziya, right Herrmann Mtselu, Tabase, brother v. Calkers’ horse boy”). Two men in trousers and jackets, one with a cap, the other one with a hat, are standing in front of a carriage without horses. The one on the left side (Timoto Mzengelo) is having a pipe in his mouth. In the background buildings and a tree.; Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Brethren 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.--Theophil Ernst van Calker, born in 1860 in Paramaribo / Suriname, was a missionary of the Moravian Church. In 1890 he married Mathilde Werner in Herrnhut. He began his work in the region of Silo (South Africa East) in 1890 and became president of the South Africa mission in 1894. In the same year he started to work in Baziya, one year later in Tabase. He worked again in Silo in 1909, retired and returned to Germany in 1926. He died in Herrnhut in 1929