Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation explained

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
Native Name:Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
Native Name Lang:de
Founder:Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Type:Nonprofit
Purpose:Philanthropy
Headquarters:Essen, Germany
Key People:Ursula Gather
(Managing Director)
Volker Troche
(Speaker of Executive Board)
Michaela Muylkens
Endowment:€ 1.2 billion (2021)
Website: (in German)

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation (German: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung) is a major German philanthropic foundation, created by and named in honor of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, former owner and head of the Krupp company[1] and a convicted war criminal.[2] [3]

Organization

Board of Trustees

Executive Board

History

The Krupp company, officially known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, was a major steelmaker and arms manufacturer that became a key supplier of weapons and materiel to the German government and the Wehrmacht during World War II. The "Krupp Law" (Lex Krupp), signed into law by Adolf Hitler in 1943, allowed Alfried Krupp to become sole proprietor of the company.[4] The Krupp company instituted slave labor at its factories and by the end of World War II had forcibly employed as many as 100,000 individuals, including concentration camp inmates, foreign civilians and children.[5] A Krupp munitions factory (Weichsel Union Metallwerke) was constructed near the Auschwitz death camp to facilitate the employment of camp inmates.[6]

Beginning in 1947, a United States military tribunal tried Krupp and 11 co-defendants for war crimes and crimes against humanity, citing in particular the use of forced labor in their factories (the "Krupp trial"). On 31 July 1948, Krupp was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison.[7] After serving three years, he was pardoned[8] by John J. McCloy, the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and his properties were reinstated.[9]

In 1959, the Krupp company pledged to pay individual compensations of DM5,000 ($1,190) to 2,000 slave workers (2% of all the estimated 100,000 slave workers), totalling DM10,000,000 (US$2,380,000). Adjusted for inflation, this corresponds to approximately €23.7 million or US$27.1 million in 2022.[10] The company denied non-Jewish inmates of the concentration camps any claim to compensation.[11]

After Krupp's death in 1967, control of the Krupp company passed to the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, a philanthropic organisation, at Krupp's behest.[12] Today, the foundation is the largest shareholder of the ThyssenKrupp industrial conglomerate (20.9% as of 2018) and largely controls the board of the company. The foundation is also tasked with preserving the "unity" of ThyssenKrupp.[13]

The foundation provides grants in the fields of health, athletics, education, science and culture.[14]

Other institutions named after Alfried Krupp

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Krupp AG German company Britannica . 2022-08-29 . www.britannica.com . en.
  2. Book: Nuernberg trials records register cards for the NI document series, 1946–1949. . National Archives and Records Administration . 1986 . Washington, D.C..
  3. News: Alfried Krupp, Last Sole Ruler Of German Steel Empire, Dies; Hitler's Arms Supplier, Jailed for War Crimes, Rebuilt Concern on New Lines . The New York Times . 2022-08-30 . en.
  4. Web site: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach German industrialist Britannica . 2022-08-29 . www.britannica.com . en.
  5. Web site: Slave Labor Nürnberg Krupp Trial Papers of Judge Hu C. Anderson . 2022-08-29 . krupp.library.vanderbilt.edu.
  6. http://www.hist-chron.com/judentum-aktenlage/hol/Pressac_auschwitz-original-fotos-bauten-d/012-waffenfabrik-Krupp.jpg Index of /judentum-aktenlage
  7. Web site: Nurnberg military tribunals indictments [cases 1–12] ]. 2022-08-29 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  8. Web site: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach . 2022-08-29 . thyssenkrupp . en.
  9. Web site: Krupp Trial Nürnberg Krupp Trial Papers of Judge Hu C. Anderson . 2022-08-29 . krupp.library.vanderbilt.edu.
  10. Theodore Shabad. 1959. Krupp Will Pay Slave Laborers: Jews Forced to Work in His Plants in World War II to Get $1,190 Each (p 1). The New York Times. 24 Dec.
  11. Herbert . Ulrich . 2000 . Forced Laborers in the Third Reich: An Overview . International Labor and Working-Class History . 58 . 58 . 192–218 . 10.1017/S0147547900003677 . 2024-07-16 . 27672680 . 145344942 . 0147-5479.
  12. Web site: Historie – Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung. 13 September 2017.
  13. Tom Kaeckenhoff, Arno Schuetze and Edward Taylor (July 17, 2018), Thyssenkrupp's foundation to steer conglomerate in leadership crisis Reuters.
  14. Web site: Home . 2022-08-29 . Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung . de-DE.
  15. Web site: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach PhD Grant "Historical and Tradition-Based African Art" 2019 H-Announce H-Net. networks.h-net.org. 2019-08-03.
  16. Web site: Google Maps. Google Maps. en. 2019-08-03.