Abstract

Christian missionaries were part of European colonization. When Germany acquired colonies, German missionaries went there to educate and Christianize the indigenous peoples in the name of German culture. Here is the first-grade class in a missionary school (elementary school) in Windhuk, Southwest Africa around 1910.

German Missionaries in Southwest Africa (c. 1910)

Source

Source: School in Windhuk run by German missionaries, photo: Robert Lohmeyer, 1909. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum https://id.smb.museum/object/500180/missionsschule-windhuk

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Recommended Citation

German Missionaries in Southwest Africa (c. 1910), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/wilhelmine-germany-and-the-first-world-war-1890-1918/ghdi:image-1713> [September 26, 2025].