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Alfried Krupp

sentenced to twelve years in the Krupp Trial; released and his property restored in 1951 1907–1967

Alfried Krupp served as sole owner and head of the Krupp industrial group from 1943. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Germany and occupied Europe through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Crimes against humanityForced labour

Confirmed findings

Krupp became sole owner of the armaments group under the 1943 decree known as the Lex Krupp.
Krupp enterprises used deported civilians, prisoners of war and concentration-camp prisoners as forced and slave labour.
The Nuremberg tribunal convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity for slave labour and plunder while acquitting him of planning aggressive war.

Place in the chain of responsibility

Krupp's responsibility followed from ownership and executive control over an industrial system that sought, deployed and profited from coerced labour and property seizure. It is distinct from SS camp command and does not make every death in associated camps an individual act by Krupp.

Key events and mechanisms

On 15 December 1943 the Lex Krupp made him sole owner of the group.
During the war Krupp plants employed large numbers of forced labourers, prisoners of war and concentration-camp prisoners.
On 31 July 1948 he was sentenced to twelve years and forfeiture of his property.

No victim-count ranking

The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.

Postwar accountability

United States High Commissioner John J. McCloy released Krupp in January 1951 and reversed the forfeiture order. Krupp regained control of his industrial property and returned to corporate leadership before his death in 1967.

Limits of the evidence

Sources vary in how they define the total workforce subjected to forced or slave labour across the group. Krupp's status as a supporting member of the SS did not constitute service as a uniformed SS officer.

Sources

The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.