Helene Amalie Krupp

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Helene Amalie Krupp (born July 10, 1732 in Essen ; † May 9, 1810 there ) can be regarded as the founder of the Krupp dynasty. Their broadly assorted trading company, however, had only the family name in common with the later Friedrich Krupp AG and today's Thyssen Krupp AG .

Live and act

Helene Amalie Krupp married Friedrich Jodocus Krupp (1706–1757) in 1751, with whom she had two children. After the death of her husband, she inherited his grocery store and continued to run it under the name " Wittib Krupp Company ". As a successful business woman, she expanded the range of foods and spices and began trading in cloth, canvases and porcelain . She expanded the already existing business relationships in the Netherlands and established new relationships with England and Northern Germany. From 1759 to 1800 she also ran a production of snuff . She reinvested the fortune in land that she leased; as well as shares in mines and collieries.

In 1799 Helene Amalie Krupp also acquired the second oldest ironworks in what would later become the Ruhr area , the Sterkrader Gutehoffnungshütte . In view of personnel and technical difficulties, the hut, acquired at an inflated price, was a loss-making business, which it transferred to her grandson Friedrich Krupp in 1807 , who was to renovate it. However, the only 20-year-old managed the hut further, and Krupp canceled the entire business and instead sold the hut to the Haniel family in 1808 . The purchase of "Gute Hoffnung" was later seen as the only mistake in her 50 years of entrepreneurial activity.

The legacy was invested in full by her grandson Friedrich Krupp in his long, often unsuccessful attempts to produce cast steel . It was only through the entrepreneurial persistence of Friedrich's widow Therese Krupp and their son Alfred Krupp , Helene's great-grandson, that the successful steel smelter was created, which in around 1850 became the nucleus of the Thyssen Krupp AG group, which still exists today.

Honors

The United Helene - Amalie colliery and Helenenstrasse in Essen-Altendorf are named after her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 190. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
  2. ^ Albert Gieseler: Timeline of the Krupp company history
  3. ↑ a b Berliner Zeitung: In the beginning there was bankruptcy

literature

Anke Probst: Helene Amalie Krupp , in: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Supplement 33 . Wiesbaden 1985.

personal data
SURNAME Krupp, Helene Amalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, founder of the Krupp dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Food , pen food
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1810
Place of death Essen , Grand Duchy of Berg