Bertha Krupp
1886 – 1957 German industrial heiress
Krupp heiress whose marriage carried the family name and firm into the 20th century.
- Religion
- Protestant.
- Affiliations
- Sole heiress and owner of the Krupp works; the 'Big Bertha' howitzer was named after her.
She inherited the entire Krupp concern at sixteen, and the Kaiser arranged her marriage to Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach to keep the works under a suitable male head. The huge World War I siege gun 'Big Bertha' was named for her.
Connections
- family of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — Her husband, who took the Krupp name.
- family of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — His wife, the Krupp heiress; her name he took by imperial leave.
In the timeline
- 1906 Gustav von Bohlen takes the Krupp name mentioned