“I, Bruno Gröning, live in Plochingen (Neckar), Stumpenhof, in Dornendreher 117, was born as the fourth child of seven siblings of the August Gröning couple on May 31, 1906 in Danzig-Oliva (Gdansk). My father was a bricklayer foreman. Both parents died; my mother in 1939, my father in 1949.

Childhood, youth and vocation:

During my childhood and adolescence, which I spent at home with my parents, I made more and more discoveries of strange abilities which – starting from me – were intended to exert a calming or healing influence on people and animals. Even as a toddler, sick people were relieved of their complaints in my presence, and children as well as adults were completely calm with a few words from me when they were upset or argued. Even as a child I was able to make the observation that the animals, which were usually considered shy or even vicious, were good-natured and tame towards me. My relationship with my parents was therefore strange and tense. I soon strived for complete independence in order to get out of the environment of the “misunderstanding” of my family.

I went to elementary school. After my release from this, I started a commercial apprenticeship. I was here for 2 1/2 years. However, at my father’s request I had to give up this apprenticeship because it was my father’s wish that I should learn a building trade. I followed my father’s wishes and learned to be a carpenter. However, it did not come to a conclusion through an examination, as there was high unemployment in Gdansk at the time. For this reason, I had to give up my apprenticeship position 1/4 year before the end of my apprenticeship without a final exam, because the company I was studying at had to close due to a lack of orders.

Subsequently, in 1925, I managed to set up a building and furniture workshop and to set up my own business. After almost two years I stopped this job and worked as a factory and casual worker until 1943. I worked in a chocolate factory, at the post office in Gdansk, also as a telegram orderer for about nine months and as a low-voltage electrician at Siemens & Halske. Here I did most of the work myself. I did all of this work with interest, and it was particularly important to me to go through an internship, where I could study the knowledge and skills of people in all walks of life and from all social classes and learn how people shaped their lives.

I was looking not only for the poorest of the poor, but also for the richest of the rich to see how they lived. A private life as one understands it in the ordinary sense (going to the cinema, going to taverns, playing cards, etc. etc.) was not of interest to me [sic!]. (In the last few years I have met people of the worst kind that I had not known them in previous years. I am thinking here of people who acted as my managers and who surrounded me from 1949 to the end of 1955. I have written evidence of this in my possession. This kind of people has worked so ingeniously that not even the authorities had the opportunity to convict them and it is therefore up to me to protect myself against the machinations of these people and against to proceed.)

Marriage and War Years:

In 1928, at the age of 21, I married (Gertrud Cohn, March 17th, 1928). Two boys emerged from this marriage, but both of them died in hospital. The eldest son died at the age of 9 in 1940, the younger, also at the age of 9, in 1947.

That married life with my then wife was unbearable for me, if only because my wife could not understand the way I lived. – My wife had stayed in Gdansk with my youngest boy until 1947 and lived a life together with the Russian occupation in Gdansk. In 1947 my then wife came to the Federal Republic of Germany and I lived again with her and my youngest boy in Dillenburg. A good year after the death of my youngest son (in 1949), I separated from my wife at the time because my wife could not agree to it, as I – as in previous years and today – my job saw and see in helping people to share with me a life that is only focused on helpfulness. In May 1955 this marriage was divorced. On June 25, 1955, I married my current wife, Juliane [sic!] Dufossé.

In 1943 I was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Because of my view, there was friction. So I was z. B. the prospect of a court martial, because I had made the statement: Whether you put me at the front or not, I won’t shoot anyone. But in the end I got to the front.

In 1944 I was wounded in my right thigh by shrapnel. For this reason I came to the home hospital, but as an unhealed person I was used again in the fight against the Russians on German soil and was taken prisoner of war by Russia in March 1945. December 1945 I was released from Russian captivity to West Germany.

In the Russian prison camps I stood up in every way for my comrades, for which I was brought three times to the Russian headquarters for interrogation; in one case I was threatened with shooting. I.a. I also demanded that our German prisoners should at least be treated like cattle, because the treatment of the prisoners at that time was far worse than that of the cattle.

In West Germany, together with refugees from the Sudetengau, I set up the “Aid Organization for Displaced Persons”. I was also a member of the Housing Commission because I felt obliged to help people again. (Evidence of these activities is included.)

Herford:

In March 1949 I was introduced to the Hülsmann family, Herford, by a woman I knew. I should help the son Hülsmann. This happened. With this, Mr. Hülsmann made great propaganda and this resulted in a large crowd in and around the house of the Hülsmanns. There were many healings, even spontaneous healings. The first thing I did now was to go to the health authorities with the aim of establishing cooperation with doctors. I wanted to avoid any inconvenience in the first place.

The authorities refused, on the contrary, I was given a written prohibition on healing. Those seeking healing who were gathered around the Hülsmann house organized a demonstration during my absence and stormed the town hall. The mayor was therefore forced to have me called and give me at least three more days to heal. I also made trips to Hamburg, Schleswig, etc., to see doctors, by whom I was invited to occasionally help the sick during my visits. In Hamburg it got so far that I was banned from speaking by the local mayor because the people of Hamburg had prepared everything to enable me to speak in front of thousands of people looking for help.

Cooperation with doctors and employees

“Ring of the Bruno Groening Friends”

This was followed by the well-known attempts by the magazine “Revue” to bring me together with doctors for experiments. Sick people from Heidelberg University Hospital were brought to me. Prof. Fischer (residing in Marburg) wanted to create sanatoriums with me.

Due to the high financial demands of Prof. Fischer, however, no agreement was reached. I didn’t get the promised approval either. During this time, when I was no longer in Herford, only Mr. Egon-Arthur Schmidt, now residing in Heidelberg, Römerstr. 65, back, who was commissioned by me to ensure the proper handling of all formalities that were necessary in order to implement the proposal made by himself and Hülsmann to found the association “Ring of Friends of Bruno Groening”, that the association could in no way be attacked from any side.

This “Ring of Friends of Bruno Groening” received 6 to 7,000 letters a day. According to my express instructions, these letters should only be opened in the presence of two witnesses, because most of the letters were accompanied by donations of money. These funds should be accounted for to comply with regulatory requirements; but not only because of this, but also so that none of the letter openers can get hold of the funds from z. T. could enrich the poorest of the poor. These funds should be deposited in a bank account of the association “Ring of Bruno Groening Friends”.

This “Ring der Freunde” association was brought into being, but it did not fulfill the expected purpose as I thought it was right. I was able to determine that the money contained in the letters, which had to amount to several 100,000 DM when over 1 million letters were received, was no longer available. After lengthy research into the whereabouts of these funds, I have gathered sufficient evidence. All this, however, still needs a judicial clarification.

Statements of Bruno Gröning:

“I am not selling divine power!”

“Health cannot be bought, it is a gift from God! Those who were very lucky to regain their health through me, thank God from the bottom of their hearts at any time, I am only their tool and servant. “

The Heidelberg Examinations

(include just a few pictures – Bruno wrote nothing about it)

Counter forces around Bruno Gröning

“Bruno Groening Association”:

These grievances could only come about because Mr. Egon-Arthur Schmidt did not keep the promise he had given me to steer everything in an orderly manner according to my express instructions. According to witnesses, he knew how to manage everything so well that he became “healthy” through the receipt of money from sick people. In order to be able to evade any responsibility, he entrusted the chairmanship of the “Ring of Friends of Bruno Groening” association to a certain Prof. Berndt and knew how to shift all the blame on this chairman in many police interrogations. (Evidence is available to me.) As a shrewd journalist, Schmidt knew how to accommodate his press articles for and against, to make money out of it, and also to put me in such a bad light through his series of articles that I was seen as one of the worst, dirtiest people had to be confused, so that even the authorities were confused, and afterwards to pretend to me that he, the innocent angel, did not know that the press would expose the articles in this way. My reproaches made to him were completely ignored.

It can be proven that Mr. Meckelburg [sic!] Is also complicit in the grievances in my area from that time. As he promised me, he set up an “Association for Research on Gröning’s Healing Methods” after consultation with lawyers – which were put down in writing. He was able to exploit this fraudulently by keeping more than 100,000 DM for himself without giving me a penny. On the contrary, I had to pay taxes to the Munich tax office for money that Schmidt and Mecklenburg had collected and made disappear and of which I had seen nothing. At this point I have to briefly mention that the money collected from Egon-Arthur Schmidt and Mecklenburg from Herford, as I had already discussed with Pastor Art – currently residing in Herford – should first be deposited in a bank account. Pastor Kunst should have the right to dispose of part of this money in order to be able to hand it over to the poorest of the poor without consulting me. For more money, houses in the form of settlements should be built for people who had lost their homes and for others who were in need. In addition, churches destroyed by the war should also – if there was money – be prepared, etc. Unfortunately, this did not happen because these funds were stolen by greedy people.

Bruno Gröning: “There were people at work here who left no stone unturned to take advantage of what was happening here and said: ‘Aha, this can still be a gold mine, we will get rich again in money and property.’ These people took advantage of that. And so my doing and working was completely distorted. “

The Traberhof in Rosenheim – The great healings:

In order to avoid the onslaught of the audience, I accepted an invitation to the Traberhof in Munich. There the well-known appearances described in the press took place, and here too many people gathered again.

During this time I finally parted with E. A. Schmidt.

Healings were taking place everywhere I went. In September 1949, the square in front of the Traberhof was on some days filled with well over 30,000 people who came to Rosenheim from all over Germany and the world.

My previous host, Hülsmann, had meanwhile become an eager “businessman” behind my back. Everyone pushed forward with the promise to get me the healing permit, but disappeared again as more or less exposed gangsters after their business was closed and had left me with a dubious reputation, which was greedily received by the press.

So e.g. a certain Count Soltikov declares that he intends – and is already preparing – to write a positive brochure about me, for which I should give him documents. In the event of my refusal, he wanted to write a negative brochure about me, for which he had already been offered 50,000 DM.

In the spring of 1950 I went to Wangerooge. Again the same thing: a stream of healing seekers, mass healings, hostile attitudes of the health authorities. In the meantime, efforts to obtain a medical permit had failed in Bavaria, also for the reason that my then so-called “manager” Mecklenburg had been arrested and locked up for tax evasion and bad financial transactions.

A way out of this agitation from all sides seemed to be temporarily my work for the naturopath Enderlin in Munich in the summer of 1950. But Heilpraktiker Enderlin did not act differently than Schmidt and Mecklenburg. He told me about my lawyer, Dr. Reuss, given the assurance that he wanted to issue me with an official document that was supposed to prove that my activity had nothing in common with the naturopathic activity protected by law, so that I could not come into conflict with the law. Mr. Enderlin did not keep this promise. For this, however, he collected huge sums of money for himself, of which I did not receive a penny, so that he could later buy a villa in Feldafing and refurbish it with the money from this income.

In October 1952 I met E. A. Schmidt again in Herford, and that was because he had written everything to arrange for a meeting with me. E. A. Schmidt pleaded with me to be able to make amends for everything he had done badly so far and gave me the promise that I would now only act correctly. I myself was very suspicious despite his firm assurance, but wanted to give him a chance to rehabilitate himself – the more or less sole culprit. It was himself who pleadingly offered to publish the book “Die Wunderheilungen das Bruno Gröning”, which he had already written, with the truthful descriptions contained therein, which were irrevocable – as he put it – in order to express it to be able to bring what he thought of me. (1 copy is included). Since Schmidt did not abandon his plan, rather attached himself directly to me and repeatedly assured me that he would do everything possible to build up my work as it was thought and planned from the beginning and verbally and in writing with new suggestions approached me, I gradually got back together with him and finally accepted his offers. But soon – in spite of the fact that he showed the positive side towards me – he again launched, as I could prove, some very dirty articles about me in the newspapers. After I reproached him heavily, he apologized again by saying that he didn’t know that the newspapers would point that out. In my opinion and as I have been able to establish in many cases, E. A. Schmidt is solely responsible for all the confusions that arose in the (Herford) period, because he is solely to blame.

When I made the most serious reproaches to him again and made it clear to him that I could not possibly work longer with him on this basis, he finally withdrew and after the entire board of the Gröning Association, where he wanted to usurp the position of managing director. When I refused him, he showed his true colors. He is now pending lawsuits against me on the basis of untrue allegations and filing charges against me based on untrue allegations in an attempt to mislead the courts and cause me great trouble.

In 1953 the naturopath Enderlin once again did everything possible to win me over again. He let me through my lawyer Dr. Reuss know that he now wanted to give me permission to practice alternative practitioner activities and that I wanted to train myself for this purpose so that I could undergo an official alternative practitioner examination and thus obtain official permission to practice alternative practitioner activities. The public order bureau denied my request without admitting me to the exam. I filed an appeal against this unjustified refusal on the advice of my lawyers at the time, Schweizer-Späth and Dr. Reuss did not appeal and the appeal proceedings against this were postponed.

Today there is no longer the possibility that my absolutely legal actions will be put into a bad light or even distorted by people around me who act badly and think badly. Since then, I have only made myself available to the local communities of the Gröning Association in a closer circle. My only concern is to convey mental powers to my listeners. to strengthen their own mental powers in order to be able to bring order to their inner being.

When I am approached by the sick, I point out to them that they should have confidence in their doctors and that by the time they have and keep this they have already gained at least 60%. It is also important to me to fill the churches with believing people.

I also have friends in France. In particular, I often talk to doctors there.

I am aware that there is nothing illegal in my actions, but I understand that I had to be misjudged by the authorities due to the very unpleasant incidents that have occurred in my life.