Franz Konz was born in Cologne, Germany on May 16, 1926. After his Abitur (A-levels), he trained as a tax inspector and reviser. For some years, he worked as a tax expert and while training as an interpreter for English he was teaching tax law and graphology at the Volkshochschule (community college). Very early on, he started to write about tax law. In the meantime, more than 5 million copies of his book series "1000 Steuertricks" (1000 tax tricks) have been sold.

His mother was a cook in the home of a nobleman and thus Franz Konz always ate "good food" at home. He paid for this with stomach problems at the age of thirty. He saw several doctors, but none of them could help him. When in 1962, after a biopsy, he received the terrible news that he had stomach cancer, his life changed radically. After his illness had taken him from hospital to hospital where no doctor could help him, an aunt pointed him in the right direction. She advised him to try Kneipp therapy and a raw food diet. He was immediately free of pain. As soon as he started eating the way he used to, however, the pain began anew.

In 1964, Konz went to the USA and became acquainted with natural hygiene. He studied medicine at Cleveland University. In Germany, he continued his medical studies at the University of Cologne as a self-taught student. Whenever he tried to eat cooked food, his pain returned.

His first step to defeating stomach cancer was vegan raw food. However, the more he read about the subject and particularly by close self-observation, 20 years ago he realized that "Urkost" - original food, i.e. wild plants, was the only right kind of diet for humans in order to be free of illnesses and health problems or to heal people if no organic damage had already been sustained.

Franz Konz became a reformer of healthy living and after 30 years completed his revolutionary masterpiece ‘Der grosse Gesundheits Konz’. He also founded the ‘Bund für Gesundheit’ (health league) to which 8500 enthusiastic members now belong.

Franz Konz enjoys expressing his opinions clearly and concisely. He is a stranger to the idea of being careful of certain lobbies, particularly with regard to traditional medicine. As a logical consequence, medical organizations accused him of endangering people's health and went to court against him. However, the cases against him were dismissed and by now, the third edition of his book (more than 1000 pages long) has been printed.