List of Famous people with last name Groning

Oskar Gröning was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning surrendered to the British at the end of the war; his role in the SS was not discovered. He was eventually transferred to Britain as a prisoner of war and worked as a farm labourer.

Bruno Gröning was a German mystic who gave lectures on faith healings. He was active in Germany in the 1940s and 1950s after World War II.

Peter Gröning is a former East German track cyclist. Gröning competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the silver medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome in the 4000-m team pursuit.