Alfred Krupp
1812 – 1887 German industrialist, arms manufacturer
The 'Cannon King' who made Krupp the arms maker of the German Empire.
- Religion
- Protestant.
- Affiliations
- Head of the Krupp steelworks at Essen; leading supplier of cast-steel cannon to Prussia and other states.
He turned a small Essen steel firm into an industrial giant built on railway tyres and, above all, cast-steel artillery. His guns armed Prussia in its wars of German unification, and the Krupp works became a symbol of German industrial and military might.
Connections
- family of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — Later head of the firm by marriage into the Krupp line.
In the timeline
- 1826 Alfred Krupp takes over the family firm central figure
- 1890 Krupp expands into warships and armour plate mentioned