Harald von Bohlen and Halbach
Harald Georg Wilhelm von Bohlen and Halbach (born May 30, 1916 ; † November 6, 1983 ) was a German industrialist and younger brother of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach .
Life
Harald was one of the eight children of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach and his wife Bertha . He spent his youth at the Villa Hügel in Essen-Bredeney , built by his great-grandfather, the steel industrialist Alfred Krupp . In the thirties he was a student at the boarding school "Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz" in Zuoz , Switzerland, where his nephew Arndt , "the last Krupp", was trained later .
On November 15, 1943, like his four siblings, who were still alive at the time, he was signed by Hitler's "Decree of the Führer on the Fried Family Business. Krupp ” excluded from inheritance so that the oldest brother Alfried could take over the Krupp company without paying inheritance tax.
During the Second World War, von Bohlen and Halbach served as first lieutenant and adjutant to an artillery general in allied Romania. When the Wehrmacht surrendered in Romania in 1944, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, although he was initially able to hide his identity. After their discovery, von Bohlen and Halbach was immediately taken to a prison for political prisoners in Moscow. Although he had nothing to do with the Krupp company directly, he was sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp in a political trial. In the grounds of the judgment he was u. a. accused of having received Adolf Hitler and other Nazi greats in his house. He also carried out espionage in Romania. Von Bohlen und Halbach had to work in an iron ore mine near Sverdlovsk for five years and was repeatedly subjected to interrogations. He sarcastically called it "study": "You study me, I study you" .
Was the early 50s to be in the Nuremberg trials Alfried after his early release from the convicted brother war criminal prison Landsberg in the Mehlemer contractual obligation Harald, his three other surviving siblings and the son of the 1940 fallen brother Claus each receive compensation in the amount of ten To pay millions of DM as compensation for the renunciation of inheritance. The Mehlemer contracts were intended to unbundle the Krupp group after the war.
After returning from captivity with the last released prisoners in 1955 , Harald von Bohlen und Halbach was accepted as a partner by his brother Berthold . Berthold had put the greater part of his share in various industrial companies; u. a. into “Wasag AG” in Essen and “Jurid GmbH” in Hamburg. Today “Bohlen Industrie GmbH” is managed by Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach (* 1956), Berthold's son.
Von Bohlen and Halbach married Doerte Hillringhaus in 1960, the daughter of a Wuppertal manufacturer. The marriage had three children: Friedrich (* 1962) (formerly part of the management of Bohlen Industrie GmbH), Georg (* 1963) and Sophie (* 1966).
Trivia
In 1957, like other celebrities , he was questioned by the police as a customer of the murdered prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt ; he was considered a prime suspect, but the public prosecutor's office was satisfied with his alibi, which was testified by a member of the Villa Hügel. The family successfully intervened against a report by the illustrated magazine Quick with attribution that was planned at the time .
Honors
In Essen, Haraldstraße 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 the servants of Villa Hügel). In Magdeburg, where the Friedrich Krupp AG Grusonwerk was located, the Harald private path was dedicated to him in 1938 (since 1945 Hagebuttenweg).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wirtschaftswoche: heads of the economy: Friedrich von Bohlen and Halbach
- ↑ www1.ku-eichstaett.de: Documents Documentation for the essay “Stalin's Justice on the Test Stand? German war convicts between repatriation and rehabilitation, 1953-2002 "
- ↑ a b Die Zeit : Die Mannheimer Puppen , No. 05, 1971 from January 29, 1971
- ↑ a b loss with dolls . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1970 ( online ).
- ^ Same name with his uncle Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach († 1945)
- ↑ Official homepage of Bohlen Industrie GmbH
- ^ Frank Stenglein: A fatal affair , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 20, 2013, p. WES 3
- ↑ Nina Jauker: Nitribitt murder case - The shame of the Adenauer era. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 28, 2007, accessed April 16, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohlen and Halbach, Harald von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1916 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1983 |