Niels Jørgen Kiær Mürer (21 August 1898 - 26 May 1980) was a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of shipbroker Christian Homann Mürer (1875 - 1955) and Ella Tonnie née Kiær (1876 - 1920). After finishing his secondary education in 1916 he graduated from the Royal Frederick University with a cand.mag. degree in 1921, including exchange studies at the University of Copenhagen.[1] He was hired as subeditor of Farmand in 1922, then as a journalist in Aftenposten in 1927. Here he held several roles, including correspondent in London between 1952 and 1954 and later foreign affairs commentator, before serving as
Mürer was also a Norway correspondent for several outlets abroad, including Nationaltidende and Daily Mail. He was a frequent translator from German; before the Second World War he translated books such as and Mussolini's by Egon Caesar Corti as well as Egon Friedell's cultural history.[1] [2] Mürer's own book (1935) has been regarded as friendly towards the Nazi regime, albeit not a Nazi book in itself.[3] The same attitude shone through in many of Mürer's writings.[4] [5] In August 1940 Mürer was part of a press delegation from German-occupied Norway brought to Germany, among others to visit Joseph Goebbels.[6]
After the war, in 1947 Mürer edited a book about Danskehjelpen. He also translated the autobiographies of Albert Speer[1] and the German Marxist Robert Havemann, and Eugene K. Bird's book on Rudolf Hess.