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Article: Arndt von Bohlen, 48, last heir to Krupp fortune
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 1986
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ESSEN, West Germany (AP) Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, last
heir to the Krupp industrial fortune, is dead at age 48, officials of
the West German manufacturing giant said yesterday.
They said Mr. von Bohlen died of a heart ailment Thursday in a
Munich hospital.
Krupp arms production played a pivotal role in the
remilitarization of Germany under the Nazis in the 1930s. Krupp
employed forced labor in the 1940s. Chairman Alfried Krupp von
Bohlen und Halbach, Mr. von Bohlen's father, was convicted of war
crimes in 1948 and spent three years in prison.
The aristocratic name von Bohlen und Halbach was added through a
Krupp daughter's marriage in 1906.
Arndt von Bohlen was an ...