Wolfram Kistner
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[Wolfram Kistner was born on February 19, 1923 in Hermannsburg, South Africa as
the second-eldest of five children to the German missionary couple Pastor Johannes
Kistner (born in Franken/ Bavaria) and Maria nee Schröder of the Hermannsburg
Mission Society. After a short missionary engagement in Ramotswa / now Botswana,
father Johannes was interned in Fort Napier/ Pietermaritzburg during the First World
War and had to return to Germany in 1919. After his marriage in Germany, he
returned to Hermannsburg/ South Africa in 1922 and became the pastor of the
Hermannsburg congregation and the school director of the German School at
Hermannsburg / Natal. Here their five children were born: Irmgard, Wolfram,
Albrecht, Hanna and Johannes, who all grew up in Hermannsburg.
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