""Von einer gedruckten Vorlage: Goldcoast Missionaries present at the Anniversary in Basel, June 1911." [Bildlegende auf altem Couvert] "
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Title:
""Von einer gedruckten Vorlage: Goldcoast Missionaries present at the Anniversary in Basel, June 1911." [Bildlegende auf altem Couvert] "
Alternate title:
"Caption on the envelope: "taken from a printed picutre. Gold Coast missionaries present at the Basel anniversary, June 1911." [Caption on the old envelope]"
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Names
Dates
Date early:
June 1911
Proper date:
June 1911
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Europe {continent}: Switzerland {modern state}: Basel-Stadt {region}: Basel {place}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
communication, group, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, mission festival
Individuals:
Andres, Friedrich (Mr)Name: Andres, Friedrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1757
Date of Birth: 17.01.1884
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Deputy pastor from 1918 to 1920 and traveling secretary in Vienna from 1920 to 1922. Moved to the USA for the North American Evangelical Synod in 1922 and went to Honduras from 1931 to 1938. gestorben ??.09.1974
Profession: gardener (Gärtner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: USA {mission area}, Mission area: Honduras {mission area}
Need more information?, Aselmann, Hermann August Johannes (Mr)Name: Aselmann, Hermann August Johannes (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1863
Date of Birth: 02.01.1888
Date of Death: 27.05.1967
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company. Aselmann worked in the Basel office of the Basel Mission Trading Comany from 1913 to 1915. He went to war after 1915.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Bayer, Max (Mr)Name: Bayer, Max (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1836
Date of Birth: 06.03.1885
Date of Death: 04.10.1955
Biography: BV ("List of the Brethren"): Released from internment in 1919.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Binhammer-Wagner, Emma Mathilde (Mrs)Name: Binhammer-Wagner, Emma Mathilde (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 16.05.1874
Date of Death: 19.11.1923
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Binhammer, Johannes Martin (Mr)
Need more information?, Blocher, Jakob (Mr)Name: Blocher, Jakob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1415
Date of Birth: 02.03.1874
Date of Death: 28.03.1948
Biography: Deputy pastor and travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Strassbourg.
Profession: watchmaker (Uhrmacher)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Brugger, Traugott (Mr)Name: Brugger, Traugott (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1388
Date of Birth: 23.09.1870
Date of Death: 11.12.1954
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company. From 1921 to 1936 Brugger worked for the UTC in Basel. His name was sometimes also spelt 'Brucker'.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Brugger, Hanna (Ms), verheiratet mit: Brugger-Iseli, Hanna Clara (Mrs)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Dewald, Heinrich (Mr)Name: Dewald, Heinrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1586
Date of Birth: 13.04.1880
Biography: BV ("List of the Brethren") gives not date for Dewald's death. But it indicates that after 1920 he worked in Honduras.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Dewald, Ludwig (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: USA {mission area}
Need more information?, Duisberg, August Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Duisberg, August Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1201
Date of Birth: 06.08.1837
Date of Death: 23.07.1916
Biography: Basel Mission Trading Company. Duisberg had been a missionary for the Pilgrim Mission in Khartum from 1864 to 1870. Before he entered the BM he had also worked in Jerusalem. After his return from Ghana D. was in the BM administration until 1916.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Duisberg-von Jaminet, Amalie (Mrs)
Need more information?, Epting-Baumann, Karl (Mr)Name: Epting-Baumann, Karl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1448 / LV 0290
Date of Birth: 19.10.1875
Date of Death: 19.08.1955
Biography: On the staff of the Mission's travelling exhibitions from 1909 to 1911. Warden of the Mission House Basel 1911-1948.
Profession: carpenter (Schreiner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Epting-Baumann, Johanna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Fisch, Johanna Elisabeth (child)Name: Fisch, Johanna Elisabeth (child)
Date of Birth: 21.06.1890
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Fisch, Rudolf (Mr)
Need more information?, Fisch, Mina Margaretha (child)Name: Fisch, Mina Margaretha (child)
Date of Birth: 27.08.1888
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Fisch, Rudolf (Mr)
Need more information?, Fisch, Rudolf (Mr)Name: Fisch, Rudolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0985
Date of Birth: 19.11.1856
Date of Death: 02.12.1946
Biography: Fisch went to Ghana as a qualified medical doctor,though not entitled to practice in Switzerland. He was a medical student at the University of Basel from 1880 to 1884. After his return he was a preacher for free church congregations.
Profession: saddler (Sattler)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Fisch-Schneider, Emma Katharina (Mrs)
Need more information?, Fisch-Schneider, Emma Katharina (Mrs)Name: Fisch-Schneider, Emma Katharina (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 22.03.1859
Date of Death: 27.09.1948
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Fisch, Rudolf (Mr)
Need more information?, Gsell-Zinsstag, Mary (Mrs)Name: Gsell-Zinsstag, Mary (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 22.10.1875
Date of Death: 23.05.1961
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Gsell, Ludwig Albert (Mr)
Need more information?, Jäger, Gotthilf (Mr)Name: Jäger, Gotthilf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1087
Date of Birth: 19.03.1860
Date of Death: 25.08.1934
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Jäger-Keller, Pauline Friederike (Mrs)
Need more information?, Kirchner, Adolf (Mr)Name: Kirchner, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1378
Date of Birth: 17.02.1873
Date of Death: 03.12.1939
Biography: Internment from 1914 to 1917.
Profession: glazier (Glaser)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Lädrach, Otto (Mr)Name: Lädrach, Otto (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1427
Date of Birth: 21.07.1875
Date of Death: 23.05.1949
Profession: secondary school pupil (Gymnasiast)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Lipps, Adolf (Mr)Name: Lipps, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1527
Date of Birth: 13.02.1878
Date of Death: 14.08.1941
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Deputy pastor in Württemberg after 1918. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't mention the year of his pension. Worked as monitor in Basel Mission.
Profession: case-maker (Etuisarbeiter)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Müller, Johann Michael (Mr)Name: Müller, Johann Michael (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0777
Date of Birth: 04.02.1849
Date of Death: 08.09.1915
Biography: Father of Theodor Müller. Joh. Mich. Müller was a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in London from 1887 to 1892 and then in Kassel, Germany. He died in Heidelberg, Germany in 1915.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Nyfeler, Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Nyfeler, Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1772
Date of Birth: 21.06.1886
Date of Death: 31.01.1948
Biography: Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission and deputy pastor from 1915 to 1925 and from 1933 to 1946. Moved to Ghana again in 1926 and travelled through Cameroon between 1926 and 1932.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Opferkuch, Alfred (Mr)Name: Opferkuch, Alfred (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1598
Date of Birth: 23.11.1875
Date of Death: 08.06.1956
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft (BMHG) / Basel Mission Trading Company. Opferkuch continued working for the BMHG after his return from Ghana. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't mention the year of his pension.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Opferkuch-Steeb, Helene (Mrs)Name: Opferkuch-Steeb, Helene (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 04.07.1878
Date of Death: 12.04.1936
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Opferkuch, Alfred (Mr)
Need more information?, Rottmann, Gottlob Samuel (Mr)Name: Rottmann, Gottlob Samuel (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1264
Date of Birth: 05.05.1866
Date of Death: 06.01.1951
Biography: After his return from Ghana Rottmann was a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in several cities in Switzerland, France and Germany.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Rottmann, Wilhelm Jacob (Mr), Tochter/Sohn von: Rottmann, Hermann Ludwig (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schlaudraff, Karl (Mr)Name: Schlaudraff, Karl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1775
Date of Birth: 19.11.1886
Date of Death: 02.12.1947
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Deputy pastor from 1918 to 1924. Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission from 1924 to 1929. Student of theology from 1927 to 1929. Pastor after 1930.
Profession: miner (Bergmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Scholz (Mr), Seeger, Johannes Michael (Mr)Name: Seeger, Johannes Michael (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0930
Date of Birth: 11.10.1850
Date of Death: 09.03.1929
Biography: After his return from Ghana Seeger worked for the Evangelical Society in Stuttgart and for the Basel Mission.
Profession: carpenter (Schreiner)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Seeger, Matthäus (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Spieth, Johannes Jakob (Mr)Name: Spieth, Johannes Jakob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1770
Date of Birth: 25.02.1886
Date of Death: 19.07.1958
Biography: Bremen Mission. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't give an exact mission area: Spieth was in Ghana and Togo from 1910 to 1914 and from 1929 to 1931. Internment from 1914 to 1918. Student of theology from 1918 to 1920. Pastor in Württemberg until 1951.
Profession: lawyer in training (Notariatskandidat)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: Togo {mission area}
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Spieth, Andreas Jakob (Mr)
Need more information?, Stern, Karl Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Stern, Karl Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1447
Date of Birth: 10.10.1875
Date of Death: 18.03.1959
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. After his release Stern was a deputy pastor in Württemberg.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wertz, Jakob Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Wertz, Jakob Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1292
Date of Birth: 14.12.1868
Date of Death: 21.08.1945
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Stuttgart from 1919 to 1921. In Ghana again from 1930 to 1937.
Profession: printer (Buchdrucker)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wintz, Gottfried Eduard (Mr)Name: Wintz, Gottfried Eduard (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1841
Date of Birth: 06.04.1884
Date of Death: 11.12.1954
Biography: Internment from 1914 to 1918. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't give an exact date of return. It is only mentioned that Wintz travelled to Ghana for the last time in 1923 and that he died in Strassburg, Germany.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Eisenschmid-Gross, Rosine Friedrike (Mrs)Name: Eisenschmid-Gross, Rosine Friedrike (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 21.12.1841
Date of Death: 09.05.1867
Biography: First wife of Eisenschmid David.
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Eisenschmid, David (Mr)
Need more information?, Blocher, Elise (Ms)Name: Blocher, Elise (Ms)
Date of Birth: 30.11.1896
Date of Death: 17.08.1919
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[Same image]: QQ-30.122.0050
Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 12.5cm x 13.8cm
[Condition]: medium
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver, modern print
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.027.0005
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.027.0005
Title: ""Von einer gedruckten Vorlage: Goldcoast Missionaries present at the Anniversary in Basel, June 1911." [Bildlegende auf altem Couvert] "
Creator: unknown
Date: June 1911

“"Von einer gedruckten Vorlage: Goldcoast Missionaries present at the Anniversary in Basel, June 1911." [Bildlegende auf altem Couvert] ,” BMArchives, accessed May 17, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/70931.
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