Abstract
A significant point of interest of the German missions was the activity among the so-called Nestorians or Assyrians, that is among the east-Syrian Christians, who were mainly settled on Iranian land in the area around Urmia. From this region two German missions tried to carry out the missionary work among the Kurds: the German Orient Mission and the Hermannsburg Mission. In the year 1905 the missionary couple von Oertzen settled in the new missionary centre in Mahabad, together with their Syrian servant, his family and his sister-in-law, and together with a Jew converted to Christianity. The key-competences for the mission among Muslims and Jews were the same: besides the linguistic competence - von Oertzen focusing on Kurdish and Rabbi Shmul dealing with the Jewish dialect of the region - there was primarily the general knowledge combined with the moral concern that determined the activity. Keywords:Christianity; German Orient Mission; Iran; Jews; Kurds; Mahabad; Muslims; Rabbi Shmul; von Oertzen
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