Bertha Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach

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Bertha Krupp on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid , before 1930

Bertha Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach (née Krupp; born March 29, 1886 in Essen ; † September 21, 1957 ibid) was an important member of the Krupp industrial family .

Life

Bertha and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, 1927

After the early death of her father Friedrich Alfred Krupp in 1902, Bertha Krupp became his sole heir. As a result, she became the owner of almost all shares in Friedrich Krupp AG, among other things . However, since Bertha Krupp was still a minor at this point in time, her rights in the company were initially given by her mother Margarethe Krupp , née. Freiin von Ende, perceived. In 1906 she married the Prussian diplomat Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach , with whom she had eight children. By royal Prussian decree, the spouses were allowed to put the name Krupp in front of the name of Bohlen and Halbach and thus to use the name Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , as long as and as long as personal ownership existed for the company.

In 1934 Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach initially refused to receive Adolf Hitler , whom she felt as a rowdy upstart, as a visitor to the Villa Hügel . When the next appointment came up, she had to give in to Hitler. In 1935 the swastika flag was hoisted on the hill of the villa for the first time. Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach said to an employee: "Go down and see how deep we have sunk."

Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach remained the owner of almost all shares in Krupp AG until it was converted back into a sole proprietorship in 1943 by the so-called " Lex Krupp " and transferred to her eldest son, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach .

The name of the Berthawerk, founded in 1942 in Marktstädt in Lower Silesia , was derived from her first name. In addition, the former factory hospital for Krupp employees in Duisburg-Rheinhausen was named after her.

The city of Essen distanced itself in 1946 from her and her imprisoned husband Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; both were stripped of their honorary citizenship rights. After the end of the war, her husband could no longer be tried as part of the Nuremberg Trials for health reasons for preparing and conducting a war of aggression, looting, forced labor and conspiracy. But her son Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment in the so-called Krupp trial in 1948 , as well as ten of eleven Krupp managers accused with him.

In the mid-1950s she donated a piece of land to the parish of St. Franziskus in Essen-Bedingrade to build a church. The foundation stone was laid in 1956 . An inscription on a boulder near the bell tower commemorates this donation. In 2014, the Bertha Krupp House was completed here as a residential and nursing home. In 1961, the Bertha Krupp School in Essen-Frohnhausen began operations on a former Krupp property .

family

Bertha and Gustav Krupp and their children in 1928. Photograph by Nicola Perscheid.

Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and her husband Gustav had 8 children:

  1. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach (1907–1967), the “last owner of the company” 19 1. 1937 Anneliese Lampert b. Bahr (1909–1998, divorced 1941); ⚭ 2. 1952 Vera Knauer b. Hossenfeld (divorced Langer, Wisbar + Knauer) (1909–1967, divorced 1957)
  2. Arnold Gustav Hans von Bohlen and Halbach (1908–1909)
  3. Claus Arthur Arnold von Bohlen and Halbach (1910–1940) ⚭ 1938 Sita von Medinger (1912–1997)
  4. Irmgard Sophie Margarethe von Bohlen and Halbach (1912–1998) ⚭ 1938 Johann (Hanno) Freiherr Raitz von Frentz (1906–1941) and ⚭ 1952 Robert Eilenstein (1920–1986)
  5. Berthold Ernst August von Bohlen and Halbach (1913–1987) °° Edith von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg and Penzlin (1919–2009)
  6. Harald Georg Wilhelm von Bohlen and Halbach (1916–1983) ⚭ 1960 Dorothea Hillringhaus (1934–2002)
  7. Waldtraut Elisabeth Mechthild von Bohlen and Halbach (1920–2005) ⚭ 1942–1961 Henry Thomas (1912–?) And ⚭ 1961 Walter Burckhardt
  8. Eckbert Wolfgang Eberhard von Bohlen and Halbach (1922–1945)

filming

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.planet-wissen.de/politik_geschichte/persoenitäten/krupps/krupp_frauen.jsp
  2. ↑ http://www.planet-wissen.de/politik_geschichte/persoenitäten/krupps/krupps_und_maechtige.jsp

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personal data
SURNAME Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krupp, Bertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German owner of Friedrich Krupp AG
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1957
Place of death eat