Page 67 - The Diary of A. H. W. Behrens

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1871 – 1872
The school in Hermannsburg had been taken to new heights by Mr Müller and had a good reputation so that we had scholars from Transvaal, Free State, Natal and even some from Cape Town, the Harveys, amounting to about 80 from the best families. The school maintained itself and did not need any support from the Mission. Teacher Müller still wanted to improve its status and for that reason applied to Director Harms in Germany for a school teacher who had studied and who could teach Latin, Greek and Hebrew etc. properly. Mission Director Th. Harms sent the very young Pastor Behr who had just married. At the big mission feast in Hermannsburg in [?]
he said, “I am going to Africa to take over my school there.” And this was then also printed in the mission paper. That really hurt our Teacher Müller, Because this was in no way revoked and the school was simply taken away from him, the founder and organiser of the school, and a young man without experience was simply placed over him he resigned and took over a school in Panmure near East London.
All scholars and their parents were very unsatisfied. The English scholars collected ₤ 17 and gave Mr Müller a golden watch as a gift, with their names engraved. Müller left at the beginning of 1872 with lock, stock and barrel and travelled via Pietermaritzburg and Durban on two ox wagons and I accompanied him to Durban and returned with the empty wagon.