Margarethe Krupp
Margarethe Krupp (born March 15, 1854 in Breslau ; † February 24, 1931 in Essen ), born Freiin von Ende, was the wife of the entrepreneur Friedrich Alfred Krupp , trustee group manager and founder of the foundation.
family
Margarethe was the daughter of the Prussian President August Freiherr von Ende and his wife Eleonore, née Countess von Königsdorff (born February 11, 1831 in Lohe , † May 10, 1907 in Wiesbaden ). In 1882 she married the entrepreneur Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854–1902), whom she had met ten years earlier on a visit to Essen . Daughter Bertha was born in 1886 and daughter Barbara in 1887 , who married Tilo von Wilmowsky in 1907 .
Life's work
Margarethe Krupp attended a secondary school for girls for two years . After attending a seminar for teachers, she was a teacher in England and at the court of Anhalt in Dessau . After the death of her husband in 1902, because her daughter and sole heir Bertha was a minor, she continued to run the company in trust as group manager, together with the supervisory board and board of directors. She turned the Krupp cast steel factory into the Friedrich Krupp AG stock corporation . The majority of the shares remained in the possession of the oldest daughter Bertha.
Margarethe Krupp was involved in the fields of art and the social. On the occasion of the wedding of her daughter Bertha on October 15, 1906, on December 1, 1906, she signed a declaration of intent to establish the Margarethe Krupp Foundation for Housing Welfare , which became legally binding with the approval document of May 27, 1907. It provided the foundation with 50 hectares of land and a capital of one million marks for the construction of residential houses. Under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor of Essen, the management of the foundation was made up of equal numbers of members of the city council and the Krupp group administration, although the foundation decree has not changed to this day. The Margarethenhöhe settlement , now an independent district of the city of Essen, was built on the 50 hectare site . To this end, Margarethe Krupp commissioned the reform architect Georg Metzendorf (1874–1934) in 1908 . In 1907, Margarethe Krupp donated another 50 hectares of land not to be built on to the city of Essen, which surrounds the settlement as a forest park. She also set up a foundation for the nursing of employees.
Since 1905 she has been trying to collect the family tradition of the Krupp family. In addition to the company archive, this collection formed a basic component for the Krupp Historical Archive .
Margarethe Krupp died at the age of 76 in the small house of Villa Hügel . She was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor south of the main train station . In 1955, municipal building measures forced the burial site to be relocated. Since then, it has been located in the Bredeney municipal cemetery on Westerwaldstrasse in Essen.
Varia
Margarethe and Friedrich Alfred Krupp were portrayed by Bruno Piglhein on the recommendation of Margarethe's brother Felix von Ende , who was himself a painter . The two oil paintings are now in the Villa Hügel in Essen, the former residence of the Krupp family. Also Hermann Kätelhön portrayed Margarethe Krupp.
On August 8, 1912, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the plant, Margarethe Krupp became the first honorary citizen of the city of Essen.
The three-part television production from 2009, Krupp - A German Family , in which Margarethe Krupp is played by Barbara Auer , shows stations in her life .
The listed Margarethensiedlung of the ironworks and mines Rheinhausen in Rheinhausen - Hochemmerich is named after Margarethe Krupp.
In the files of the Leipzig City Archives there is a letter from Margarethe Krupp from 1905. In it, she asked to send her information material to the Meyer's Foundation in Leipzig , which happened as requested. A year later, she founded the Margarethe Krupp Foundation in Essen, which with 3,100 apartments and 60 commercial space is still Germany's largest housing foundation to this day.
literature
- Ralf Stremmel: Margarethe Krupp (1854–1931) - a prevented entrepreneur? In: Ulrich S. Soenius (Ed.): Moving, connecting, shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll on September 28, 2003 . Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation, Cologne 2003, pp. 129–146. ISBN 3-933025-39-7
- Diana Maria Friz: Margarethe Krupp. My great grandmother's life . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-423-24703-0 (novel-like biographical representation)
- Angelika Schaser: Margarethe Krupp: Draft of a life in the center of the Krupp saga . In: Michael Epkenhans , Ralf Stremmel (Ed.): Friedrich Alfred Krupp. An entrepreneur in the empire . CH Beck, Munich 2010, pp. 179-204. ISBN 978-3-406-60670-0
Web links
- Margarethe Krupp Foundation
- Margarethe Krupp on the Essen homepage
- History on the ThyssenKrupp homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ BARBARA KRUPP WEDS .; New York Times, May 7, 1907: Second Daughter of the Great Steelmaker Becomes a Baroness
- ^ CHRONICLE OF TIME, Issue 11, 1953
- ↑ https://www.lvz.de/Leipzig/Lokales/Stiftung-Meyer-sche-Haeuser-in-Leipzig-wird-120-Jahre-alt , accessed on June 14, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krupp, Margarethe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ende, Margarethe Freiin von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Friedrich Alfred Krupp, fiduciary group manager, founder of the foundation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1931 |
| Place of death | eat |