Arnold von Bohlen and Halbach
Arnold Gustav Hans von Bohlen and Halbach (born October 25, 1908 at Villa Hügel zu Essen , † January 8, 1909 in Essen) was one of the eight children of the German industrial family Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach .
Life
The second-born Arnold died at the age of three months. For decades, family reports - in particular through stories from his aunt Barbara von Wilmowsky - carried the information that his wet nurse was complicit in his early death.
His body was first buried in the Krupp private cemetery, which was attached to the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . When this was abandoned in 1955 due to urban planning measures, the graves and slabs of the family members were moved to the Bredeney cemetery on Westerwaldstrasse in the Krupp section. He is buried here next to his siblings, parents, grandparents ( Friedrich Alfred Krupp and Margarethe Krupp ) and Alfred Krupp .
meaning
The sudden death of their second son Arnold in January 1909 was the motivation for Gustav and Bertha Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach to set up a foundation with the aim of establishing a “maternity and maternity home” in which the wives of Krupp employees were to be looked after. who “for whatever reason cannot be given the necessary care in their own home”.
On July 1, 1912, Bertha Krupp inaugurated the Arnoldhaus for women who have recently given birth in the Altenhof housing estate in Essen- Rüttenscheid , after the first child had been born there two days earlier. The Arnoldhaus was destroyed in 1944 by Allied bombing raids. In the early 1980s, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation began building the Alfried Krupp Hospital . The chairman of the Board of Trustees, Berthold Beitz , was in charge of this, continuing the tradition of social responsibility of Alfred Krupp and the following generations from a new perspective.
Inside the hospital there is again an Arnoldhaus for obstetrics named after Arnold .
Arnoldstrasse in Essen is named after him, which is not far from Villa Hügel at the entrance to Hügelpark in the Brandenbusch settlement (built for employees of Villa Hügel at the time).
There was also an Arnoldstrasse named after him near Magdeburg until 1945. The subsidiary Friedrich Krupp AG Grusonwerk was located in the Buckau district .
literature
- Thomas Rother: The Krupps. Through five generations of steel . Campus Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-404-61516-2 (since July 1, 2007), ISBN 3-404-61516-6 .
- William Manchester : Krupp - Chronicle of a family . Kindler Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-55045-5 .
- Bernt Engelmann : Krupp. The story of a house - legends and reality . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 10/1986. ISBN 3-442-08532-2 .
- Norbert Mühlen: The Krupps . Heinrich Scheffler Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1965, rororo paperback edition.
- Wilhelm Berdrow: 125 years of Krupp . Edition V. November 20, 1811/1936.
- Ralf Stremmel: 100 years of the Krupp Historical Archive - developments, tasks, inventories . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation (ed.), Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-06568-7 .
- Ernst Schröder: Krupp - history of an entrepreneurial family . Muster-Schmidt Verlag, Zurich / Göttingen 1968/1991 (4th edition), ISBN 3-7881-0005-2
Film adaptations
- Krupp - Myth and Truth . TV documentary, WDR 2009
- Berthold Beitz - The Lord of the Three Rings . TV documentary, WDR 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ William Manchester from conversations with family members still alive in the 1960s
- ^ History of the Alfried Krupp Hospital
- ↑ Essen city map
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohlen and Halbach, Arnold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bohlen and Halbach, Arnold Gustav Hans von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German infant, son of the industrial family Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1909 |
| Place of death | eat |