Erich Gröner
German naval historian
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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 Käthe-Kollwitz Gymnasium 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.