Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach


Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach was a German heir of the Krupp dynasty.

Biography

The son of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Anneliese Lampert ; Arndt von Bohlen, Lutheran by birth and tradition, famously waived his inheritance in 1966 and thus was no longer the owner of the company Friedrich Krupp AG. Instead, his father created the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation. However, Arndt agreed with receiving a yearly appanage of 2 million DM. Because he waived his inheritance, he was also not allowed to use the family name Krupp, which was reserved to the sole inheritor of the family business.
Despite being notoriously homosexual, like his great-grandfather Friedrich Alfred Krupp, on 14 February 1969, he married Princess Henriette von Auersperg, the daughter of Prince Alois von Auersperg and the Countess Henrietta Larisch von Möennich. The couple had no children.
Owing to generous compensation and appanage Arndt was able to live the jet-set life, flying constantly between Miami and Marrakesh. In 1982, he converted from Lutheran Protestantism to the Roman Catholic faith.
He died at the age of 48 in the Klinikum Großhadern in Munich of jaw cancer. He had been an alcoholic for a long time and was deeply in debt at the time of his death.
In his book LIFE, Keith Richards stated that Arndt was a regular party companion in Marrakech.

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