# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:08:36.589Z

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name: "Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach"
slug: "gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach"
description: "A diplomat who married into Germany's largest arms dynasty and spent four decades turning steel into weapons — first for the Kaiser, then for Hitler."
tagline: "German businessperson, politician (1870-1950)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1870-08-07"
deathDate: "1950-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.22822
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in The Hague in 1870, Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach was a Prussian consul at the Vatican when Emperor Wilhelm II arranged his marriage to Bertha Krupp, heiress to the Friedrich Krupp empire; he added her name to his own and took the chairman's seat in 1909. By the outbreak of the First World War, Krupp held a near monopoly on German heavy arms and produced Big Bertha, the Paris Gun, and the U-boat. An avowed monarchist, he began secret rearmament shortly after Versailles, initially resisted the Nazis, then became a fervent Hitler supporter and bankrolled the NSDAP. Deteriorating health reduced him to a figurehead by the late 1930s; his son Alfried formally succeeded him in 1943. At war's end he was bedridden and senile — deemed unfit for Nuremberg — and died in Austria in 1950.