| AdminHistory | In the mid nineteenth century, Rev. Dr. D.F.M. Harms, a young German from Mecklenburg became concerned at the plight of German seamen in British ports. In 1855 he began his work on Tyneside. The organisation that he established to support this was the German Mission To Seamen In Great Britain (Generalkomitee für Deutsche Evangelische Seemannsmission in Grossbritannien). Until his death Harms was closely involved in the leadership of this mission, as well as being Pastor of the Hamburg Church for the years 1914-8.
It is though that the majority of these records were brought to St George's by the Seamen's chaplain Pastor Harms who came to London at the outbreak of the First World War and who, from 1917, filled the vacancy at St George's left by Pastor Matzold.
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