Press reviews, Germany:
"secret.TV", July 2007
"Bruno Groening"
In 1949 the name of Bruno Groening appeared overnight in the public
spotlight. The press, radio and newsreel reported on him. For months the
activity of the "miracle-doctor", as he was soon called, held the young
republic in its spell. A motion picture film was shot, scientific
investigatory commissions were formed, and the authorities...
on the highest levels concerned themselves with the case of Bruno Groening.
The North-Rhine Westphalian Social Minister had Bruno Groening prosecuted
for violation of the Healing Practitioners’s Law, while the Bavarian Prime
Minister, on the other hand, stated that such an "exceptional phenomenon" as Groening should not be allowed to fail due to bureaucratic nitpicking. The
Bavarian Minister of the Interior referred to his activity as "an activity
of free love".
There was vehement discussion and controversy over the case of Bruno
Groening among all levels of the population. There were surges of high
emotion. Clergymen, doctors, journalists, lawyers, politicians and
psychologists all spoke of Bruno Groening. For some his miraculous healings
were a gift of grace by a higher power, for others charlatanism. Yet the
veracity of the healings was proven through medical examinations.
Born in Danzig in 1906, Bruno Groening immigrated to West Germany after the
war as a displaced person. A simple worker, he lived from various activities—as
a carpenter, factory- and dock worker, telegram deliveryman and low-voltage
electrician. Then suddenly he found himself in the centre of public interest.
The news of his miraculous healings spread around the world. Sick people,
letters of petition and offers came from all countries. Tens of thousands of
people seeking healing flocked to his places of activity. A revolution in
medicine had begun.
However, there were also opposing forces. Influential doctors, church
functionaries, lawyers and former co-workers tried everything to stop the
work of Bruno Groening. Healing prohibitions plagued him, and he was taken
to court. All efforts to pursue his activity in an orderly fashion failed,
due on the one hand to the opposition of influential social forces and on
the other to the incapacity or profit-seeking of his helpers. When Bruno
Groening died in Paris in 1959 the last trial against him was still in
progress. The proceedings were discontinued, and a final judgement was never
given. Yet many questions remain open.
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