Georg Thurmair

Georg Thurmair (7 February 1909 – 20 January 1984) was a German poet and hymnwriter who wrote around 300 hymns, a writer, journalist and author of documentary films.

Career Born in Munich, he took commercial training and worked from 1926 as a secretary at the . He became an assistant to who had worked in Munich from 1923, but moved to Düsseldorf when he was elected president of the Katholischer Jungmännerverband Deutschlands.