Heinrich Arnold Krumm was born as the youngest of nine children at Salchendorf in the

district of Siegen in Germany, on April 15th 1879; the rest of the Krumm family was
supposed to have already emigrated to Mexico in 1823.

At the age of fifteen Arnold Krumm sailed for Chile, at first roughing it as a railway labourer,
but soon becoming active as a healer under the instruction of the Amerindians.

After his mother died in Germany in 1895, religious values began to play an increasing part in
Krumm-Heller's life, and he made contacts with the Theosophists.

On February 7th 1897 he married his first wife, Rita Aguire Valry, who was 21 at the time.
[6] Back in Mexico, he took up studies at a medical school for military doctors.