Eckbert von Bohlen and Halbach

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Portrait of the Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach family in 1928 by Nicola Perscheid . Eckbert in front on the left next to his mother Bertha.
Grave slab at the Bredeney family cemetery

Eckbert Wolfgang Eberhard von Bohlen and Halbach (born August 31, 1922 in Blühnbach near Salzburg ; † April 25, 1945 near San Martino near Parma , Italy ) was one of the eight children of the German industrial family Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach .

Life

Eckbert was the youngest child of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and his wife Bertha (née Krupp). He spent most of his youth at the Villa Hügel in Essen, built by his great-grandfather, the steel industrialist Alfred Krupp . After graduating from the Bredeneyer Realgymnasium (now the Goethe School), he joined the Wehrmacht .

On April 25, 1945 he fell as a lieutenant north of Parma on the Italian front in an ambush by partisans.

His mother received an undated letter from him after the war ended, giving her hope that he was alive. After he did not come home for the next few months, his brother Berthold personally convinced himself of his fate through research in Italy.

His body was later transferred to the city cemetery Bredeney in the Krupp section of Essen-Bredeney , where he found his final resting place next to his siblings, parents, grandparents ( Friedrich Alfred Krupp and Margarethe Krupp ) and Alfred Krupp.

meaning

Eckbert, like his other siblings, was always in the shadow of his eldest brother Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , who was intended to be the next sole owner of the Friedrich Krupp AG company and who also took over management of the company from his father Gustav (1870–1950) in 1943 . Through the Lex Krupp initiated by Adolf Hitler , he and his siblings were excluded from the inheritance in order to secure the sole ownership of the elder.

Representations

The most famous portrait photographers of the time, such as Nicola Perscheid , took pictures of the family. The famous family portrait (painting by George Harcourt , 1931) is still on display at Villa Hügel today as part of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation , in which he is shown as a young boy with his parents and then six siblings. The Villa Hugel is publicly owned by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and. The family picture has always fascinated artists. In 1998 Jana Gunstheimer created a group of figures that recreate the people in the family picture. After Bertha's death in 1957, the picture exuded great magic on many Kruppians, as it was noticeable that all family members on the right-hand side had died first.

Honors

In Essen, Eckbertstraße is named after him, which is not far from Villa Hügel at the entrance to Hügelpark in the Brandenbusch settlement (built at the time for employees of Villa Hügel).

In Magdeburg-Buckau , Friedrich Krupp AG Grusonwerk belonged to the Krupp Group until 1945 . The street “Am Hopfengarten” on the area of ​​the later SKET machine factory was also called Eckbertstraße from 1938 to 1945.

In 1962 the glider club Steeler Spatzen from Essen named a glider of the type Ka 6 in his name.

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.
  • Gert von Klass : From rubble and ashes - croup after 5 generations . Reiner Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1960.
  • Wilhelm Berdrow: 125 years of Krupp . Edition V. November 20, 1811/1936.
  • Tilo von Wilmowsky : Looking back, I would like to say . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg / Hanover 1961.
  • Renate Köhne-Lindenlaub: The Villa Hügel. Corporate residence through the ages . Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation (ed.), Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02134-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Klaus Tenfelde: "Krupp remains Krupp" - A celebration of the century . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-364-X .
  • Ernst Schröder: Krupp - history of an entrepreneurial family . Muster-Schmidt Verlag, Zurich / Göttingen 1968/1991 (4th edition), ISBN 3-7881-0005-2 .

Film adaptations

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Many documents are in the Krupp Historical Archive at Villa Hügel, which, under the direction of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, is still a private works and family archive. Studying files is possible after prior registration.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b William Manchester: Conversation with Berthold von Bohlen and Halbach.
  2. ↑ Files of the Essen cemetery administration
  3. ↑ Essen city map
  4. ↑ Contemporary newspaper article, no information about the place of publication or the author ( memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steelerspatzen.de
personal data
SURNAME Bohlen and Halbach, Eckbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohlen and Halbach, Eckbert Wolfgang Eberhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION The son of a German industrialist, member of the Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach family
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Blühnbach near Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1945
Place of death San Martino near Parma