Waldemar Murjahn

Waldemar Murjahn (* July 20, 1923 , † September 5, 2004 in Velbert-Langenberg ) was a German entrepreneur and evangelical pioneer of the mission with new media.

Life

Murjahn was chairman of the supervisory board of the Kaufring AG purchasing association , which at the time had around 50,000 employees in 600 department stores.

In the 1970s he was the first German to found a Christian advertising agency that published short evangelistic sermons in the youth magazine Bravo . As a coordinator, he ran the "newspaper, literature and advertising mission in Russia" on a voluntary basis, a work area of the Christian media association KEP , to which he was a member of the board from its foundation in 1975 until April 2000.

Murjahn was a volunteer on the board of Kindernothilfe from 1977 . Since May 1980 he has been a member of the Board of Directors, of which he was 1st Deputy Chairman until he left in November 1990.

In 1974 he founded the “Working Group for Biblical Pastoral Care” (ABS).

He was one of the initiators of the Christian InterNet Working Group (CINA) founded in 1996 .

Murjahn was married to his wife Friedel and had five children.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b A pioneer of the media mission turns 80: Waldemar Murjahn . In: Evangelische Nachrichtenagentur idea eV (Ed.): IdeaSpektrum . No. 29/2003 . Wetzlar 2003.
^ History. Christian Media Association KEP eV, archived from the original on October 7, 2010 ; Retrieved October 7, 2010 .
^ Obituary for Waldemar Murjahn . In: Kindernothilfe eV (ed.): Kindernothilfe magazine . No. 175 , 2005, pp. 3 .
↑ Used by God . In: Wendpunkt eV (Hrsg.): On the way. Friend's letter from Wendpunkt eV no. 54 , p. 3 .
^ A pioneer of the media mission: Waldemar Murjahn died at the age of 81 . In: Evangelische Nachrichtenagentur idea eV (Ed.): IdeaSpektrum . No. 37/2004 . Wetzlar 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Murjahn, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur and evangelical pioneer of the media mission
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1923
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 2004
Place of death	Langenberg (Rhineland)

[idea1-1] A pioneer of the media mission turns 80: Waldemar Murjahn . In: Evangelische Nachrichtenagentur idea eV (Ed.): IdeaSpektrum . No. 29/2003 . Wetzlar 2003.

[2] History. Christian Media Association KEP eV, archived from the original on October 7, 2010 ; Retrieved October 7, 2010 .

[3] Obituary for Waldemar Murjahn . In: Kindernothilfe eV (ed.): Kindernothilfe magazine . No. 175 , 2005, pp. 3 .

[4] Used by God . In: Wendpunkt eV (Hrsg.): On the way. Friend's letter from Wendpunkt eV no. 54 , p. 3 .

[idea2-5] A pioneer of the media mission: Waldemar Murjahn died at the age of 81 . In: Evangelische Nachrichtenagentur idea eV (Ed.): IdeaSpektrum . No. 37/2004 . Wetzlar 2004.