Amtsrat Friedrich Samuel Gronner

Friedrich Samuel Gronner was born in Niedek in Silesia [today: Nýdek in the Czech Republic] as the legitimate son of Emanuel Gronner and his wife Jetti, née Tiefenbrun. Nothing has survived about the Jewish family.

In 1914, Friedrich Gronner was already in Vienna and married Hildegard Dolocy, who had left the Catholic Church a year earlier, and some time later became the father of a daughter. He enters the service of the Austrian tax authorities. In 1923, he converted to the Protestant Church A.B. In 1932, he converted to the Catholic Church and had his marriage validated (recognized as Catholic) in the same year. The marriage was divorced as early as 1935.

On March 12, 1938, Friedrich Gronner witnessed the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation was adopted and with it the 'Nuremberg Race Laws', according to which Friedrich Gronner was considered a 'full Jew'. He was dismissed from the financial service on May 31, 1938 for 'racial reasons'. He then remained living in Vienna.

On March 10, 1944, Friedrich Gronner was deported on transport 48a to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. From there, he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp on October 28, 1944 and murdered after October 28, 1944.

On October 13, 1947, Friedrich Gronner is officially declared dead.