Irmgard Eilenstein

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Portrait of the Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach family in 1928 by Nicola Perscheid , Irmgard in front left.
Villa Huegel in Essen
Grave slab at the Krupp family cemetery in Bredeney

Irmgard Eilenstein (born May 31, 1912 Villa Hügel zu Essen ; † November 23, 1998 , born Irmgard Sophie Margarethe von Bohlen und Halbach , widowed Baroness Raitz von Frentz ) was one of the eight children of the German industrial family Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach.

Life

Irmgard Eilenstein was the fourth child of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach and his wife Bertha (born Krupp). She spent most of her youth at the Villa Hügel in Essen, built by her great-grandfather, the steel industrialist Alfred Krupp .

Historical footage shows Irmgard von Bohlen and Halbach as an "inexperienced and insecure hostess" at the side of their father Gustav. She represented her mother Bertha, who allegedly suffered from migraines, at Adolf Hitler's first visit to the hill. At the beginning of the 1930s, Bertha von Bohlen and Halbach could still afford to maintain her contempt for the “gross Nazis” in the internal circle.

On April 7, 1938, Irmgard von Bohlen and Halbach married the staunch National Socialist Johann (Hanno) Freiherr Raitz von Frentz (1906–1941) from one of the oldest aristocratic families in Germany in Essen-Bredeney . Raitz von Frentz was mayor of St. Goarshausen an der Loreley . The children Adelheid (* 1939), Rutger (* 1940) and Sigbert (* 1941) come from this connection. Hanno fell on September 3, 1941 as an SA- Sturmbannführer not far from the Szosch river in the USSR .

In the turmoil after the war, she lived not far from the Krupp Gut Klausheide near Nordhorn in the Meinecke forestry department.

On June 19, 1952, she married again in Dortmund. She had three more children with the Bavarian farmer Robert Eilenstein (1920–1986): Gunhild (* 1952), Hildburg (* 1954) and Dietlind (* 1956).

Like her other siblings, Irmgard Eilenstein was always in the shadow of her 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 took over management of the company from his father Gustav (1870–1950) in 1943. Through the Lex Krupp initiated by Adolf Hitler , she and her siblings were excluded from the inheritance in order to secure the sole ownership of the elder.

As part of the "Mehlemer contract" of 1953, Alfried undertook to pay his five siblings still alive and his nephew Arnold, son of his brother Claus , who died in 1940 , a severance payment of just over DM 10 million .

Irmgard Eilenstein was buried in Essen-Bredeney at the Bredeney municipal cemetery in the Krupp section next to her siblings, parents, grandparents ( Friedrich Alfred Krupp and Margarethe Krupp ) and Alfried Krupp.

Honors

In Magdeburg there was an Irmgardstraße named after her until 1945 (today Kiefernweg). The Friedrich Krupp AG Grusonwerk was located in Magdeburg .

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 .
  • 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.
  • 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 - a German family . Feature film, ZDF 2009. The role of Irmgard was played by Nele Trebs (5-8 years) and Dorothea Förtsch (25-45 years).
  • Krupp - Myth and Truth . TV documentary, WDR 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation
  2. ↑ Schröder, Engelmann, Manchester, Rother a. a.
  3. ↑ The mirror. November 1951
  4. ↑ ibid.
  5. ↑ Files of the Essen cemetery administration
personal data
SURNAME Eilenstein, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raitz von Frentz, Baroness Irmgard (married name); von Bohlen and Halbach, Irmgard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur daughter, member of the industrial family Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Villa hill to eat
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1998