About Bruno Gröning
Bruno Gröning (born Bruno Bernhard Grönkowski; 30 May 1906 – 26 January 1959) was a German mystic who rose to fame in the late 1940s for performing faith healings. == Biography == Gröning was born into a Catholic family in Danzig in 1906. He was the fourth of seven and grew up living in an urban housing block in the suburb of Oliva. He never completed his education. He trained as a carpenter for a time, but also worked variously as a waiter, an electrician, a furniture marker, a paint seller and as a repairman of bicycles, sewing machines and watches. In 1928, he married a woman named Gertrud with whom he would have two sons, both of whom later died, with the elder boy dying in 1939 due to a heart defect and the younger boy dying in 1949 due to pleurisy. The marriage between Bruno and Gertrud was described as unhappy and the two would ultimately divorce. After their seizure of power in 1933, the Nazi Party established a significant presence in Danzig. Gröning, his father, and his brother joined the Nazi Party sometime before 1936. The family also changed its surname from Grönkowski, Grenkowski, or Grzenkowski – records are unclear – to the more German sounding Gröning in 1936.
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