Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I haere tonu te mahi a Gründgens i muri i te haerenga mai o te roopu Nazi ki te mana: i te tau 1934 ka noho ia hei "Tumuaki", he kaiwhakahaere toi ranei, o te Whare Taonga o Prussia, ana i muri mai ka tohua hei mema o te kaunihera kawanatanga o Prussia e te Minita-Peresideniraa o Prussia a Hermann Göring. I noho hoki ia hei mema o te Kaunihera Perehitini o te "Reichstheaterkammer" (Te Whare Tapere o te Reich), he umanga no te Reichskulturkammer (Reich Chamber of Culture). I te tau 1941, i wheturangitia a Gründgens (kaore i tana hiahia me te kore utu) i roto i te kiriata whakatairanga "Ohm Krüger" me te "Friedemann Bach", he kiriata i hangaia e ia. Whai muri i a Goebbels
i te 18 o Hui-tanguru 1943, i tono a Gründgens mo te Wehrmacht engari i whakahokia mai ano e Göring, nana nei i whakauru tona ingoa ki te raarangi Gottbegnadeten (Rarangi Whakaaetanga Kaiwhakaari Nui).