Thus, in 1811 Friedrich founded the Krupp Gusstahlfabrik ( Cast Steel Works ).

Steel magnate Fritz Krupp and shipowner Albert Balin of the Hamburg-America Line were invited to speak on the benefits of the bill to trade and industry.

The Krupp Gun Works during World War I

During the war, Krupp was allowed to take over many industries in occupied nations, including Arthur Krupp steel works in Berndorf, Austria, the Alsacian Corporation for Mechanical Construction ( Elsaessische Maschinenfabrik AG, or ELMAG ), Robert Rothschild's tractor factory in France, Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia, and Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG ( Deschimag ) in Bremen.

* Snoid Comics, 1980, " Kitchen Sink Enterprises, a division of Krupp Comic Works, Inc .".

The planned eighteen NSB Class 49 locomotives never materialised, however, since those under construction at the Krupp Works in Essen, Germany, were damaged so severely by Allied bombing in October 1943 that they were never completed.

In addition to Milwaukee artists like himself, Mitchell, Bruce Walthers, Don Glassford, and Wendel Pugh, Kitchen began to publish works by such cartoonists as Howard Cruse, Trina Robbins and S. Clay Wilson, and he soon expanded his operations, launching Krupp Comic Works, a parent organization into which he placed ownership of Kitchen Sink Press and through which he also launched such diverse ventures as a record company and a commercial art studio.

One legend claims that some of the giant steel penstock pipes which carry water from Huntington Lake to the hydroelectric plant, visible running down the mountainside, " are stamped with a swastika because the pipes were purchased from the Krupp Works in Nazi Germany before the United States entered World War II.

The penstock pipes for the original two units at Big Creek Power Houses One and Two, built 1912-13, were purchased from the Krupp Works in Germany because at that time that manufacturer produced steel pipes of the tensile strength needed to contain the very high water pressures in the pipes in the 1500 foot drop down to Power House One.

Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany, briefly serving as a department head at the Krupp Works in Essen from 1916 to 1918.

Representative of Germany's industry was the steel giant Krupp, whose first factory was built in Essen.

The Krupp family ( see pronunciation ), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments.

Friedrich Krupp ( 1787 – 1826 ) launched the family's metal-based activities, building a pioneering steel foundry in Essen in 1810.

An assortment of naval guns and field artillery pieces from the Krupp works in Essen, Germany.

The Krupp family first appeared in the historical record in 1587, when Arndt Krupp joined the merchants ' guild in Essen.

The Widow Krupp greatly expanded the family's holdings over the decades, acquiring a fulling mill, shares in four coal mines, and ( in 1800 ) an iron forge located on a stream near Essen.

Alfred Krupp ( born Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp ), son of Friedrich Carl, was born in Essen in 1812.

Essen became a large company town, and Krupp became a de facto state within a state, with " Kruppianer " as loyal to the company and the Krupp family as to the nation and the Hohenzollern family.

His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.

Krupp ’ s factory in Essen was occupied, and independent republics were declared, but the German Reichswehr invaded from Westphalia and quickly restored order.

French soldiers inspecting Krupp ’ s factory in Essen were cornered by workers in a garage, opened fire with a machine gun, and killed thirteen.

Gustav Heinemann's father, Otto Heinemann, a manager at the Krupp steelworks in Essen, shared his father-in-law's views.

Historically linked to the centuries-old Krupp family iron works, Essen has been one of Germany's most important coal and steel centres until the 1970s and attracted workers from all over the country ; it was the 5th-largest city in Germany between 1929 and 1988, peaking at over 730, 000 inhabitants in 1962.

A third almost-completed hull and turret were found by British forces at the Krupp works at Essen.

The first raid destroys 53 buildings in the Krupp complex and destroys of Essen.

* July 25 – 26 ( overnight ) – 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany, causing considerable damage to the Krupp works.

* July 3 – 4 ( overnight ) – 90 British bombers attempting to attack the Krupp arms works and rail targets in Essen, Germany, scatter their bombs so widely that they bomb Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Hagen, Wuppertal, and other cities as well as Essen.

The raids are the combat debut of the Gee navigation aid, raising British hopes that precision bombing of the Krupp armaments factory will be achieved, but it is not hit, and bombs in fact do far more damage to neighboring towns than to Essen itself.

This film is a thinly veiled reference to the Krupp family of Germany whose steel company was based in Essen.

A three-class franchise system was also used for local elections in parts of Prussia, one result of which was that the industrialist Alfred Krupp was the only person able to vote for the electors in the first class in Essen.

After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Krupp works became the center for German rearmament.

In 1896 Krupp bought Germaniawerft in Kiel, which became Germany ’ s main warship builder, and built the first German U-Boat in 1906.

At this time 50 % of Krupp ’ s armaments were sold to Germany, and the rest to 52 other nations.

In 1913 Germany jailed a number of military officers for selling secrets to Krupp, in what was known as the “ Kornwalzer scandal .” Gustav was not himself penalized and fired only a single director, Otto Eccius.

During the war, Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft produced 84 U-boats for the German navy, as well as the Deutschland submarine freighter, intended to ship raw material to Germany despite the blockade.

Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft built the 366-ton sailing yacht Germania featuring a chrome-nickel steel hull in Germany in 1908.

The Arms of Krupp, 1587 – 1968: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War, Back Bay, ISBN 0-316-52940-0.

" The name could not be used in Germany, however, because it was owned by Krupp, which had manufactured trucks between 1951 and 1964 with the name Mustang.

The name of the post office was changed from Krupp to Marlin during World War I in order to avoid negative associations with a large, well-known munitions plant in Germany.

* The Krupp family ( Germany )

* Krupp K5, a railway gun of World War II Germany

* The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War ( 1968 )

The Versailles Treaty prevented Germany from making armaments and submarines, forcing Krupp to significantly reduce his labour force.

However, using the profits from the Vickers patent deal and subsidies from the Weimar government, Krupp secretly began the rearming of Germany with the ink barely dry on the treaty of Versailles.

The construction of the mine installations and a 300 km railway were commissioned to Krupp of Germany and the modern harbour terminal to SETH, a Portuguese company owned by Hojgaard & Schultz of Denmark.

The event was filmed by Hitler's favorite director, Leni Riefenstahl, and branded with the giants of German industry: the lighting-mirrors were made by the Zeiss corporation, and the torches themselves, fueled with magnesium to prevent them from going out in bad weather, were constructed by Krupp, the huge steel and munitions conglomerate that armed Germany for both world wars.

In Germany, the bank was instrumental in the financing of bond offerings of steel company Krupp ( 1879 ) and introduced the chemical company Bayer to the Berlin stock market.

Big Bertha () — literal translation " Thick ( or fat ) Bertha " — is the name of a type of super-heavy howitzer developed by the famous armaments manufacturer Krupp in Germany on the eve of World War I.

It purchased the most modern Krupp artillery and Mauser repeater magazine rifles from Germany, in addition to mines and Torpedoes.