Essen-born German mega-entrepreneur, heir to the powerful Krupp company, Germany's largest armaments company, during World War I. Son of Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach and Bertha Krupp, he studied engineering in Munich and Berlin and joined his father's company, after the great expansion of his father's management. Initially hostile to the Nazis, they were persuaded (1930) by Hjalmar Schacht to join the advantageous commercial projects of Adolf Hitler for the future of Germany, plus the dictator would considerably increase government expenditures in armaments.
Three years later (1933) the Krupp factories started producing tanks in Germany, submarines in Holland and new weapons in the Sweden and during World War II ensured the continuous supply of tanks, ammunition and armaments for the Army German. He built factories in German-occupied countries, including using labor from concentration camp prisoners, for example, with a fuse factory inside Auschwitz. He was also authorized by the SS to employ 45,000 Russian civilian prisoners in civilian forced labor in its steel factories. He was appointed Minister of War Economy (1943) by Adolf Hitler and, at the end of the war, was arrested by the Canadian Army and considered a war criminal.
In Nuremberg, accused of looting occupied territories and blamed for ill-treatment of prisoners of war and occupants of concentration camp, he was found guilty and sentenced to twelve years in prison and had all his wealth and possessions. confiscated. Your US attorney, Earl J. Carroll, benefited from amnesties and obtained his release (1951) from Landsberg prison. Much of its industrial patrimony was returned to it, it managed to regain its hegemony in the steel sector and within a short time the Krupp corporation was among the largest in the world. After his death in Essen, West Germany, the group of companies was transformed into a joint stock company, but still with an expressive participation of the Krupp family.
Source: Biographies - Academic Unit of Civil Engineering / UFCG
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