Friedrich Alfred Krupp
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Germany
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steel
Steel
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manufacturer of the company Krupp
Krupp
The Krupp family , a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th...
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Biography
Krupp was born in EssenEssen
- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...
, Germany. His father was Alfred Krupp. In 1887, Friedrich took over the leadership of his father's company. He married Margarethe Krupp (born Freiin von Ende). They had two daughters: Bertha
Bertha Krupp
Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , born Bertha Krupp and commonly known by this name outside Germany, was a member of the Krupp family, Germany's leading industrial dynasty of the 19th and 20th centuries...
and Barbara (married Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky).
Krupp loved the Italian
Italy
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island of Capri
Capri
Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy...
, where he often lived for some months in each year. He stayed at the hotel Quissiana and had two yachts, Maya and Puritan. His hobby was Oceanography
Oceanography
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. He met Felix Anton Dohrn and Ignazio Cerio
Ignazio Cerio
Ignazio Cerio was an influential but eccentric physician and amateur philosopher on the island of Capri, in Italy. His father, imprisoned for his liberal beliefs, had spent his time in jail devising chemical concoctions and mechanical constructions that would never be made; Ignazio continued the...
on Capri.
On 15 November 1902 the Social Democratic
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
magazine
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Vorwärts
Vorwärts
Vorwärts was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published daily in Berlin from 1891 to 1933 by decision of the party's Halle Congress, as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt, founded in 1884....
claimed in an article that Friedrich Alfred Krupp was homosexual, that he had a number of liaisons with local boys and men and that his fondest attachment was to Adolfo Schiano, an 18-year-old barber and amateur musician. A week later, Krupp committed suicide on 22 November 1902. In a speech at his burial, Emperor Wilhelm II attacked the Social Democratic politicians, insisting that they had lied about Krupp's sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
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Literature
- Norman DouglasNorman DouglasGeorge Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.-Life:Norman Douglas was born in Thüringen, Austria . His mother was Vanda von Poellnitz...
: Looking Back. London 1934. Chapter about Dottor Salvatore Lo Bianco. - Carlo Knight: Die Capri-Utopie von Krupp - L'utopia caprese di Krupp. 2002, CapriCapriCapri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy...
, La Conchiglia Edizioni. - Julius Meisbach: Friedrich Alfred Krupp - wie er lebte und starb. around 1903, Cologne, Verlag K.A.Stauff & Cie.
- A. Sper: Capri und die Homosexuellen: eine psychologische Studie, 1903, Berlin, Orania Verlag.
- Tito Fiorani: Le dimore del mito, La Conchiglia, Capri 1996, pages 99-106.
- Edwin CerioEdwin CerioEdwin Cerio was a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist. He was born on the island of Capri to an English artist mother and a well-known local physician, Ignazio Cerio.-Early life:...
: CAPRI - Ein kleines Welttheater im Mittelmeer, 1954, Munich, pages 135-143. - Humbert Kesel: Capri. Biographie einer Insel. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1971, pages 264-268, ISBN 3-7913-0007-5.
- Michael EpkenhansMichael EpkenhansMichael Epkenhans is a German military historian known for his works dealing with the German Imperial Navy. He was the director of the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh from 1996 to 2009...
, Ralf Stremmel (Hrsg.): Friedrich Alfred Krupp. Ein Unternehmer im Kaiserreich. Beck, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60670-0.
External links
- Biography at thyssenkrupp.com