Erich Gröner Explained

Erich Gröner
Birth Date:16 March 1901
Birth Place:Berlin
Death Place:Paris
Nationality:German
Occupation:Maritime historian

Erich Gröner (16 March 1901, in Berlin – 21 June 1965) was a German historian of naval warfare and shipbuilding.

Early life and education

Erich Gröner was born on 16 March 1901 in Berlin, then capital of the German Empire. From 1910 to 1918, he attended the He published his first treatise, A History of Maritime Trade and Sea War Shipping, at 15 years of age. Gröner enlisted voluntarily into the Kaiserliche Marine in 1918.

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