Bruno Enss: farmer and minister; b. 3 July 1899 in Tiegenhagen, Prussia. He married Helene Hinz (30 May 1898, Neuteicherwalde, Prussia - 21 May 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba) on 26 October 1920 in Reimerswalde, Prussia. She was the daughter of Johann and Maria (Janzen) Hinz. They had three children: Georg, Günter and Magdalena. Both sons died while serving in the German army during World War II. Bruno d. 27 October 1967 in Winnipeg, MB.

Bruno Enss grew up in Reimerswalde, Prussia and was baptized in the Ladekopp Mennonite Church in 1914. He attended the Berufsschule für Landwirtschaft (Vocational School for Agriculture) in Marienburg, Prussia, and began farming. He was ordained as a minister in the church in Tiege in 1934 and ordained as elder of the Orlofferfelde Mennonite Church in 1935. He served until 1945, and at the end of the war ministered to fellow refugees in Denmark, where he tried to meet spiritual and physical needs and to reunite separated families.

In 1949 the Enss family migrated to Canada. Bruno studied at Mennonite Brethren Bible College in Winnipeg, MB for three years from 1949 until 1952 and then spent a year as an evangelist in South America from 1953 until 1954. He served as leading minister in the First Mennonite Church Greendale, British Columbia, for eight and a half years from 1954 until 1963. Bruno concluded his ministry at Springfield Heights Mennonite Church in Winnipeg where he served as elder from 1964 until 1967 and died of a stroke following an operation in 1967. His motto was: "Be ye reconciled to God."

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