"Gold Coast / Accra: Hochzeit C. Bossaller, Mai 1903. "
Item Details
Title:
"Gold Coast / Accra: Hochzeit C. Bossaller, Mai 1903. "
Alternate title:
"Gold Coast, Accra. C. Bosaller's wedding, May 1903."
Description
vordere Reihe von rechts / first row from right: Otto Weiss, Dora Weiss-Oestmann, Karl Bossaller, Anna Bossaller-Suter
Names
Dates
Date early:
02.05.1903
Proper date:
02.05.1903
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana {mission districts}: Accra {mission district}: Accra {place}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
communication, group, headgear, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, mission trader m, missionary f, missionary m, wedding
Individuals:
Blattmann, Rösli (Mrs), Bossaller-Suter, Anna (Mrs)Name: Bossaller-Suter, Anna (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 09.09.1881
Date of Death: 20.09.1905
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Bossaller, Karl (Mr)
Need more information?, Bossaller, Karl (Mr)Name: Bossaller, Karl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1550
Date of Birth: 31.03.1877
Date of Death: 20.04.1945
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Bossaller-Suter, Anna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Deyhle, Adolf (Mr)Name: Deyhle, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1601
Date of Birth: 05.06.1877
Date of Death: 09.02.1920
Biography: Worked in the mission administration in Basel from 1908 to 1920.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Erhardt, Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Erhardt, Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1380
Date of Birth: 09.04.1873
Date of Death: 15.09.1963
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Assistant pastor from 1918 to 1919. From 1919 to 1933 Erhardt worked for the Federation against Alcoholism in Karlsruhe.
Profession: typesetter (Schriftsetzer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Erhardt-Erhardt, Anna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Giezendanner-Burckhardt, Hanna (Mrs)Name: Giezendanner-Burckhardt, Hanna (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 11.05.1881
Date of Death: 03.01.1905
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Giezendanner, Traugott (Mr)
Need more information?, Giezendanner, Traugott (Mr)Name: Giezendanner, Traugott (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1543
Date of Birth: 01.11.1872
Date of Death: 19.05.1941
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Giezendanner-Burckhardt, Hanna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Kimmelmann, Eugen (Mr)Name: Kimmelmann, Eugen (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1642
Date of Birth: 11.09.1878
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?, Mohr, Adolf (Mr)Name: Mohr, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0849
Date of Birth: 20.01.1851
Date of Death: 27.01.1927
Biography: From 1906 to 1922 Mohr was an editor of mission publications (Missionsliterat) in several German cities.
Profession: mechanic (Mechanicus)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Mohr, Joseph Franz (Mr)
Need more information?, Olpp, Paul Georg (Mr)Name: Olpp, Paul Georg (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1551
Date of Birth: 12.02.1876
Date of Death: 12.04.1974
Biography: After his return from Ghana Olpp worked as a bookseller in Calw, Württemberg.
Profession: bookseller (Buchhändler)
Geographic references: 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?, Weiss-Oestmann, Otto (Mr)Name: Weiss-Oestmann, Otto (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1639
Date of Birth: 15.03.1876
Biography: BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't give any information about the year of Weiss' death.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Weiss-Oestmann, Dora Ida Sophie Alexandrine (Mrs)Name: Weiss-Oestmann, Dora Ida Sophie Alexandrine (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 11.10.1880
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Weiss-Oestmann, Otto (Mr)
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?, Wieber, Karl (Mr)Name: Wieber, Karl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1299
Date of Birth: 15.07.1870
Date of Death: 31.01.1953
Biography: After his return from Ghana Wieber was a deputy pastor and a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission until 1935.
Profession: factory worker (Fabrikarbeiter)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wieber-Erhardt, Anna Marie (Mrs)Name: Wieber-Erhardt, Anna Marie (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 27.10.1874
Date of Death: 22.06.1957
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Wieber, Karl (Mr)
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 12cm x 15.5cm
[Condition]: bad
[Type of support]: cardboard, corner mounted
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, albumen
Identifier
Reference:
QU-30.003.0006
Citation:
Reference: BMA QU-30.003.0006
Title: "Gold Coast / Accra: Hochzeit C. Bossaller, Mai 1903. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 02.05.1903

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