Wolfram Kistner

[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.