Heinz Murmann

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Heinz Murmann (* 1928 in Bavaria ; † August 16, 2007 in Troisdorf ) was a German journalist .

Life

Murmann had a doctorate in economics . He began his journalistic career as a trainee and court reporter at the Heidelberger Tageblatt . In 1959 Murmann moved to the Deutsche Zeitung in Cologne . From 1962 to 1968 he worked as a newspaper and radio correspondent in London . This was followed by a position as a foreign policy (economic) editor at the Handelsblatt in Düsseldorf . Murmann then moved to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger, for which he initially acted as a business correspondent and then from 1977 to the end of 1992 as head of the parliamentary editorial office at the then parliament and government seat in Bonn . Its political and economic orientation was considered ordoliberal .

From 1987 to 1991 Murmann was chairman of the German Press Club. In 1997 he published the first account of the history of the association. In the editorial team of liberal , a quarterly publication of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , Murmann worked for eight years until 2002.

Murmann spent his retirement in Troisdorf near Bonn. He was considered one of the most important private sponsors of the picture book museum in Wissem Castle in his hometown , to which he also dedicated two volumes of stories. In 1994 Murmann and his wife Geerte († 2000) founded the G. and H. Murmann Foundation to promote education as well as art and culture, including monument conservation projects in the new federal states . Today it is a legal foundation within the German Foundation for Monument Protection . In 2007 Murmann succumbed to a serious illness. He was buried in the Troisdorf forest cemetery.

Fonts

  • With "C" it's finer. The German Press Club Bonn from 1952 until today. Bouvier, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02713-2 .
  • Ritter Jens and other adventure stories about Castle Wissem. Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dresden Official Gazette , No. 34–35 / 2007, August 30, 2007, p. 8. ( Online PDF )
  2. ↑ a b Gentleman with expertise and discretion , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, August 19, 2007
  3. ↑ According to the catalog of the German National Library, he was awarded a doctorate in Tübingen in 1957 with his work The Speech Style of Early English Labor Politicians phil. doctorate ( DNB 480732124 ). Access date: August 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Undercover: the BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1998, p. 106.
  5. ↑ a b c With "C" it is finer. The German Press Club Bonn 1952 to today , Bouvier, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02713-2 . (Short biography on the back cover)
  6. ↑ a b c Barthold C. Witte: Obituary: He loved freedom . In: Liberal , quarterly journal of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , Volume 49, p. 1, 94.
  7. ↑ a b c The G. & H. Heinz Murmann Foundation , Finower Wasserturm u. his environment e. V. (from Heinz Murmann: Ten years - just a beginning: The G. and H. Murmann Foundation from 1994 to 2004 )
  8. ↑ The Schmökerstube is supposed to remember Geerte Murmann , General-Anzeiger , July 17, 2001
  9. ↑ List of foundations for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  10. ↑ Merits also as a book author
  11. ↑ “Merits also as a book author” , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 17, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Murmann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2007
Place of death Troisdorf