| End of January 1930 |
The family's moving to Cologne
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| 1932 |
Nikolaus' participating in the National Catholic Congress in Essen
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| 1st April 1931 |
Birth of the fifth child, Alexander (Alex)
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| 13rd July 1934 |
Men`s pilgrimage to Mainz with Nikolaus Groß
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| 4th August 1934 |
Birth of the sixth child, Bernhard
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| from April 1937 |
Nikolaus is editor of the bi-weekly magazine "St. Nikolaus paper" for the mission of sailors on inland waterways
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| November 1938 |
Final ban of the "Ketteler-Wacht"; first time participation in the working group "Men`s spiritual welfare" founded by the Bishop of Fulda and convened once a year
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| 29th September 1939 |
Birth of the seventh child Helene (Leni)
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| from 1939 |
Working for the committee of the Catholic Working Class Movement in the Ketteler house in Cologne; Writing; Lectures in different places; contacts with Bishop Dietz in Fulda) |
| until 1941 |
Publication of religious booklets (having been cut off from paper distribution)
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| 1942 |
Meeting Alfred Delp SJ, a member of the "Kreisauer Kreis" (a resistance group based in the east) in Fulda, from then on more frequent meetings; Groß and Delp were concerned with "Men`s spiritual welfare". Two persons from this working group were beatified after their death: Nikolaus Groß and the monk Rupert Mayer.
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| 16th October 1942 |
The oldest son Klaus is called up to serve in the German army
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| Beginning of November 1943 |
Son Klaus is missing in Russia
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| from end of 1942 |
Nikolaus talks with Bernhard Letterhaus and Jakob Kaiser about the subversive plans of the "Goerdeler-Kreis"; resistance in the "Kölner-Kreis" in association with the national committee of the Catholic Working Class Movement.
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| February 1943 |
Taking part in a meeting with Goedeler, Kaiser, Prelate Müller in the Ketteler house
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| October 1943 |
Meeting Goerdeler and Kaiser in Berlin; travelling to Bartholomäus Kossmann in Wiesbaden with the aim of recruiting him as a political representative
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| Spring 1944 |
Air raids on Cologne
Evacuation of the children: Liesel and Leni to Essen-Kupferdreh, Bernhard to Herdorf/Sieg, Alexander to Weingarten, Marianne to Usedom.
Elisabeth Groß visits her children to keep contact. The table, the sign of community is destroyed in the war.
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| 11st August 1944 |
Visiting Mrs. Letterhaus and informing her about the arrest of her husband on 25th July
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| 12nd August 1944 |
Arrested by Cologne Gestapo (secret state police) and transferred to the concentration camp Ravensbrück
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