Article: Arndt von Bohlen, 48, last heir to Krupp fortune

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 ...

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