What is Bertha Krupp?
[[File:Nicola Perscheid - Bertha Krupp.jpg|thumb|200px|Bertha Krupp.]] [[File:Bertha und Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 1927.jpg|thumb|200px|Bertha with Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 1927]] [[File:Nicola Perscheid - Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach und Familie 1928.jpg|thumb|200px|Bertha with family, 1928, by [[Nicola Perscheid]]]] '''Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach''' (29 March 1886 – 21 September 1957) was a member of the [[Krupp]] family, Germany's leading industrial dynasty of the 19th and 20th centuries.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Frau Krupp Dies In Germany At 71. Ex-Head of Munition Works Was Bertha for Whom Big Gun of '18 Was Named |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60915F83F5D157A93C0AB1782D85F438585F9 |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=September 22, 1957 |access-date=2013-12-24 }}</ref> As the elder child and heir of [[Friedrich Alfred Krupp]] she was the sole proprietor of the Krupp industrial empire from 1902 to 1943, although her husband, [[Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]], ran the company in her name. In 1943 ownership of the company was transferred to her son [[Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach|Alfried]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Krupp, Bertha}} [[Category:1886 births]] [[Category:1955 deaths]] [[Category:German businesspeople]]