Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, "Taffi", (August 7, 1870 - January 16, 1950) ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He was indicted for prosecution at the 1945 Nuremberg trials, but the charges were dropped because of his failing health. August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the U.S. town, see Krupp, Washington. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ...

Family

He was born Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach, the son of a German diplomat (also called Gustav) working in the Hague. The elder Gustav had made his family fortune in the coal and iron fields of Pennsylvania and had decided to return home once Germany became a unified nation. He became a diplomat too, serving in Washington, Peking and the Vatican City. He married Bertha Krupp in October 1906. Bertha had inherited the company in 1902 at age 16 when her father, Friedrich Krupp had committed suicide. The marriage had been arranged as it was unthinkable at the time for a large company to be run by a woman. The Kaiser announced at the wedding that Gustav would now use the name Krupp. Gustav became company chairman in 1909. This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... Arms of The Hague Flag of The city of The Hague. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Friedrich Krupp (1787 - 1826) was a German steel manufacturer and founder of the Krupp family commercial empire that is now subsumed into ThyssenKrupp AG. He launched the familys metal-based activities, building a small steel-foundry in Essen in 1811. ... Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918. ... Nubian wedding with some international modern touches, near Aswan, Egypt Preparing for the photographs, at a wedding in Thornbury Castle, England A traditional Japanese wedding ceremony A wedding is a ceremony which celebrates the beginning of a marriage. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

After 1910 Krupp became a member and major funder of the Pan German League (Alldeutscher Verband) which mobilised popular support in favour of two army bills in 1912 and 1913 to raise Germany's standing army to 738,000 men. Krupp's sole proviso in providing the finance was that the rank and file should never know who was paying the bills.

By the First World War, the company had a near monopoly in heavy arms manufacture in Germany. At the start of the war, the company lost access to most of its overseas markets, but this was more than offset by increased demand for weapons from Germany and her allies. One of the company's products was a 94-ton howitzer named Big Bertha after his wife. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna... In economics, a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium - Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. ... Loading a WW1 British 15 in (381 mm) howitzer A howitzer or hauwitzer is a type of field artillery. ... Big Bertha Big Bertha (German: Dicke Bertha; literal translation Fat Bertha) is the name of the L/14 model of heavy mortar-like howitzers built and used by Germany during World War I. The name Big Bertha is often mistakenly applied to the Langer Max and Paris Gun railway guns. ...

After the war, Krupp was widely criticised within Germany for the profits he had made from it. The Versailles Treaty prevented the company from making armaments, and it diversified to agricultural equipment, vehicles and consumer goods. However, it secretly continued to work on artillery through subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Sweden. In the 1930s it restarted manufacture of tanks and submarines, again using foreign subsidiaries. Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ... Artillery with Gabion fortification Cannons on display at Fort Point Continental Artillery crew from the American Revolution Firing of an 18-pound gun, Louis-Philippe Crepin, (1772 – 1851) A forge-welded Iron Cannon in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Günther Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a watercraft that can operate underwater...

Krupp was a member of the Prussian State Council from 1921 to 1933. He opposed the Nazis until 1933, when he was persuaded that they would help his company by destroying the trade unions and by increasing the size of the armed forces. Krupp subsequently became the chairman of the Association of German Industrialists, and the Adolf Hitler Spende, a political fundraising organisation for the Nazis. Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...

During the Second World War Krupp used large numbers of slaves from occupied countries and concentration camps, and treated them brutally – it has been estimated that 70,000 concentration camp victims died as a result. They had, for example, a fuse factory near the camp at Auschwitz. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Slave redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... Look up fuse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ...

Krupp suffered failing health from 1939 onwards, and a stroke left him partially paralysed in 1941. He became a figurehead until he formally handed over the running of the business to his son, Alfried Krupp in 1943. Following the Allied victory, plans to prosecute Gustav Krupp as a war criminal at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials were dropped because by then he was bedridden and senile. He died in Blühnbach, Austria. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA),[1] is an acute neurological injury in which the blood supply to a part of the brain is interrupted. ... Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... The Krupp family is a prominent 400-year-old German family from Essen, famous for their steel production and manufacture of ammunition and armaments. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ...

Trivia

• Krupp's estate, the Villa Hugel, had a suite of rooms for Wilhelm II whenever he came to visit. Even in exile after World War I Krupp wrote to him on his birthday every year.

• Krupp's loyalty was to the head of state, no matter who was in power. He was an avowed monarchist but once left a business meeting in disgust when another industrialist, who was the one hosting the meeting, referred to the late President Friedrich Ebert as "that saddlemaker" (Das Sattelhersteller). Once Hitler obtained power and became Reichskanzler (Reich Chancellor) Krupp dropped his objections to the Nazis and became in Fritz Thyssen's words, "a Supernazi."

• Hitler actually tried to gain entry to the Krupp Factories (Kruppgusstahlfabrik) in 1929 as head of the Nazis but was refused because Krupp felt he would see some of the secret armament work there and would reveal it to the world.

• Bertha Krupp never liked Hitler even though she never complained when the company's bottom line rose through the armaments contracts and production. She referred to him as "that certain gentleman" (Der gewisse Herr) and pleaded illness when Hitler came on an official tour in 1934. Her daughter Irmgard acted as hostess.

• Other members of his family remained in Pennsylvania and became active in business and politics. FDR's interpreter was Charles Bohlen whose grandfather and Krupp's father were brothers.

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See also

• Ex-Nazis