12 Facts About Georg Thurmair

Georg Thurmair was a German poet and hymnwriter who wrote around 300 hymns, a writer, journalist and author of documentary films.

Georg Thurmair became an assistant to Ludwig Wolker who had worked in Munich from 1923, but moved to Dusseldorf when he was elected president of the Katholischer Jungmannerverband Deutschlands.

In 1932 Thurmair edited at a national meeting of the Sturmschar several editions of the weekly Junge Front, which was directed against the emerging National Socialism.

Georg Thurmair worked on two songbooks of the Jungmannerverband, Das graue Singeschiff and Das gelbe Singeschiff.

From 1934, Georg Thurmair was an editor of the youth journal Die Wacht, which first published in 1935 his hymns "Nun, Bruder, sind wir frohgemut" and "Wir sind nur Gast auf Erden", which was first called a Reiselied.

Georg Thurmair was interrogated by the Gestapo and included in a Liste der verdachtigen Personen.

Georg Thurmair therefore wrote under various pseudonyms, such as Thomas Klausner, Stefan Stahl, Richard Waldmann, Simpel Krone, and Schikki.

Together with Josef Diewald and Lohmann, in 1938 Georg Thurmair published the hymnal Kirchenlied, intended to be a common hymnal for German-speaking Catholics.

Georg Thurmair married Maria Luise Thurmair in 1941, and they worked together.

Georg Thurmair worked mainly for the Christophorus-Verlag in Freiburg, which belongs to the Catholic Verlag Herder, and as chief editor of several Catholic papers.

Georg Thurmair died in Munich and was buried in the Munich Waldfriedhof.

Several of Georg Thurmair's hymn were part of the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of 1975, and are part of the 2013 Gotteslob, including :.