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Albert Schweitzer, the evangelic theologian, philosopher and doctor was a great role model in the 1950s. He was one of the most popular development aid volunteers of the world and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. But was he the sympathetic missionary he pretended to be? This question was asked by many of us while reading in a Spiegel article that he called the African “little brothers” who have to be obligated to adapt to the right culture.

General information:

-In 1913: steamboat Liemba was constructed in Papenburg by the Meyer-Werft

– ordered by emperor Wilhelm II.

– till May 1927 it had the name “Graf Götzen” (after Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen)

– for the Tanganjikasea in the colony German-East Africa

– construction time: 10 months

– 160.000 rivets were needed to hold the ship together

– for transportation it was packed in 5.000 wooden boxes

The trip from Papenburg to the Tanganjikasea

Firstly, the boxes were brought to Hamburg by train, then with a steamship to Daressalam, the capital of the colony. From Daressalam, the boxes were transported by the new opened railway to the Tanganjikasea in Kigoma

There, about 270 people (250 natives, 20 Indians) assembled the ship under the direction of three ship constructors of the Meyer Werft.

Well, one hard nut is cracked: I decided definitely on the topic of my Facharbeit: The Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu.

So, in the easter holidays I went to the Landschaftsbibliothek in order to search for adequate material, but it turned out that the books I found in the computer had to be ordered by inter-library loan. For that reason the madam in the library told me that I would have to wait several weeks to receive the books; some of them have not been arrived yet. 

Nevertheless, I started scanning the books being already there, marked important and usuful pages with notepads and wrote down some relevant notes.

But there is still the problem that I have no idea which subhead would be appropriate;  I am still wondering about if it is easier to reflect on a formulation of a question or on a clause of statement or if it’s necessary at all.

Anyway, I defered this question and determined that it is more useful so start with the structure before poring on that concern.                                                                                    So I did by means of the books and in a moment I will show it to Mr. Doanth including some proposals for the subhead.*       

*added:

We agreed that a subhead is not necessary for such a multifaceted character like Desmond Tutu. 🙂