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

The leading firm was " Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp ," run by the Krupp family.

The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the 20th century the company was headed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1870 – 1950 ), who assumed the surname of Krupp when he married the Krupp heiress, Bertha Krupp.

After Germany's defeat, Gustav was senile and incapable of standing trial, and the Nuremberg Military Tribunal convicted Alfried as a war criminal in the Krupp Trial for " plunder " and for his company's use of slave labor.

Friedrich spent a significant amount of time and money in the small, waterwheel-powered facility, neglecting other Krupp business, but in 1816 he was able to produce smelted steel.

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

Krupp was able to sell, alternately, improved artillery and improved steel shielding to countries from Russia to Chile to Siam.

Krupp ’ s paternalist strategy was adoped by Bismarck as government policy, as a preventive against the Social Democratics.

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.

In 1890 Krupp developed nickel steel, which was hard enough to allow thin battleship armor and cannon.

Kaiser Wilhelm II felt it was unthinkable for the Krupp firm to be run by a woman.

By imperial proclamation at the wedding, Gustav was given the additional surname " Krupp ," which was to be inherited by primogeniture along with the company.

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.

After Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, Krupp bought his villa Blühnbach, in Werfen in the Austrian Alps, and which was a former residence of the Archbishops of Salzburg.

Krupp received original contracts in the United States and enjoyed a period of technological superiority while also contributing the majority of rail to the new continental rail road system.

The siege is also notable for the first use of anti-aircraft artillery, a Krupp piece built specifically to shoot down the hot air balloons being used by the French as couriers.

This class of ammunition is especially useful for the smaller calibres of guns, such as 3-pounder ( 1. 4 kg ), 6-pounder ( 2. 7 kg ) and field guns, but Messrs. Krupp also employ metallic cartridge cases for the largest type of gun, probably on account of the known difficulty of ensuring trustworthy obturation by any other means practicable with sliding wedge guns.

* Krupp ( also known as Marlin )

He also served with the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, investigating Krupp.

Ironically, it is revealed in the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman that they perform fairly well overall in school, as their grades range from B to C. They are also always getting in trouble by Mr Krupp.

Mr. Krupp has a very deep hatred of children, and also tries to protect Jerome Horwitz Elementary from George and Harold's antics.

) The defending force was also supported by a battery of four Krupp 7. 5 cm Gebirgskanone M 1873 guns ( on loan from the 1st Mountain Regiment, since the 80th Regiment's own artillery battery was stationed at Nekhl.

They also learned that Krupp was considering introducing the system after testing it.

They had also captured an Austrian battery of two Krupp 77mm field guns, along with a complete convoy.

In the English translation, he works for ' Korrupt Arms ', a pun on ' corrupt ', but also on Krupp, the German arms manufacturers.

Krupp and Daimler developed a tractor for the Bertha, though Podeus motorploughs were also used to tow the guns, which were broken down into five loads when on the road.

Chinese artillerymen during the battle also learned how to use their German bought Krupp artillery accurately, outperforming European gunners.

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.

The lead female officer, Eva Krupp ( played by Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon ), can also be seen as an Ilsa-like character.

The British designated the castle " Fort No. 3 " ( at the other end of V Beach was " Fort No. 1 ", also known as Fort Ertugrul ) and it was equipped with 10 artillery pieces, including two 28 cm Krupp L / 22 guns.

In the Krupp Trial, twelve former directors of the Krupp Group were accused of having enabled the armament of the German military forces and thus having actively participated in the Nazis ' preparations for an aggressive war, and also for having used slave laborers in their companies.

An artillery duel also commenced between a Filipino artillery battery, possibly firing a Krupp artillery piece, and Battery D with a 3. 2-inch field gun.

There were also technical problems with the Panzer III: it was widely considered to be under-gunned with a 37 mm KwK L / 45 and production was split between four manufacturers ( MAN, Daimler-Benz, Rheinmetall-Borsig, and Krupp ) with little regard for each firm's expertise, and the rate of production was initially very low ( 40 in September 1939, 58 in June 1940 ) taking until December 1940 to reach 100 examples a month.

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.

Silicon carbide is also then used as protection against armor-piercing shells developed to hit tanks that start life as American tractors, which use diesel engines developed thanks to funding from Krupp, who inspired Bismarck's welfare scheme based on Quetelet's statistics that inspired the Charles Babbage's difference engine, whose punch cards were used to rivet the " SS Great Eastern ," the monster ship that laid the transatlantic cable insulated with gutta-percha used to manufacture golf balls for factory managers in industrial Scotland, where James Watt had a run-in with Cavendish, whose protegee was James Macie aka James Smithson, who caused all the row in the capitol building, so the money got used to set up a world-renowned institution named after James Macie's new family name, which was Smithson: The institution known as the Smithsonian.

The army also carried some ten mountain guns, four Krupp field guns, and six Nordenfeldt machine guns.

In 1878 and 1879 Krupp held Völkerschiessen, which were firing demonstrations of cannon for international buyers.

These were held in Meppen, at the largest proving ground in the world ; privately owned by Krupp.

Vickers of England naturally suspended royalty payments during the war ( Krupp held the patent on shell fuses, but back-payment was made in 1926 ).

This incident spurred reprisal killings and sabotage across the Rhineland, and when Krupp held a large, public funeral for the workers, he was fined and jailed by the French.

A special conference of scholars on Pius XII on the 50th anniversary of his death was held in Rome on 15 – 17 September 2008, by Pave the Way Foundation, a nonsectarian organization founded by Gary Krupp, a Jewish American, which promotes interfaith cooperation.

Krupp was an avowed monarchist, but his first loyalty was to whoever held power.

It held the first international IAA ( Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung ) motor show, in 1897, and was involved in the Krupp scandal, detailed in William Manchester's book on the arms manufacturer.