Marquardt, Horst

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Minister, evangelist, religious radio station executive, author; born in Berlin, Germany in 1929; grew up in Breslau, Silesia during World War II; after fall of Hitler, joined the Communist Party as a journalist; converted to Christianity through private reading of the New Testament; left position with the Communist Party and took a job with a Methodist congregation in Berlin; studied theology in Frankfurt; involved in relief work for the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; helped form Evangeliums-Rundfunk, the German branch of Voice of Tangiers (now know as Trans World Radio); founded and served as chairman of the Information Service of Evangelical Alliance in West Germany; married; had four children.

From the description of Oral history interview with Horst Marquardt, 1982. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 30767756

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associatedWith Billy Graham Euro '70 (1970 : Dortmund, Germany) corporateBody
associatedWith Billy Graham Germany Crusade (1960 : West Berlin, Germany) corporateBody
associatedWith Billy Graham Moscow Visit (1982 : Moscow, Russia) corporateBody
associatedWith Evangeliums-Rundfunk. corporateBody
associatedWith Graham, Billy, 1918- person
associatedWith Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. person
associatedWith Trans World Radio. corporateBody
associatedWith Travers, Alan. person
associatedWith Voice of Tangiers (Radio station : Tanger, Morocco) corporateBody
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Germany
Poland
Russia
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Communism
Conversion
Evangelistic work
Fund raising
Mass media in religion
Missions
Radio audiences
Radio broadcasting
Radio in missionary work
Radio in religion
Short wave radio
World War, 1939-1945
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