Krupp Trial - Defendants

Defendants

Name	Function	Sentence
Alfried Krupp	owner and CEO	12 years plus forfeiture of property; released 1951; died 1967
Ewald Oskar Ludwig Löser	former CFO	7 years; served sentence and released 1955; died 1970
Eduard Houdremont (DE)	director, head of steel works	10 years; died 1958
Erich Müller (DE)	director, head of arms fabrication	12 years; died 1963
Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen	CFO, successor to Löser	10 years
Karl Heinrich Pfirsch	former head of sales department	found not guilty: acquitted and released
Max Otto Ihn	Personnel and intelligence, deputy to Löser and Janssen	9 years
Karl Adolf Ferdinand Eberhardt	head of sales, successor of Pfirsch	9 years
Heinrich Leo Korschan	deputy head of steel plants	6 years
Friedrich von Bülow (DE)	counterintelligence, public relations, and head of the plant police (Werkschutz)	12 years; died 1984
Werner Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann	"labor procurement", deputy to Ihn	6 years
Hans Albert Gustav Kupke	head of workers' camps	2 years and 10 months

All eleven defendants found guilty were convicted on the forced labor charge (count 3), and of the ten charged on count 2 (economic spoliation), six were convicted. On January 31, 1951, two and a half years after the sentences, ten (all except Löser) were released from prison. Since no buyer for the Krupp Holding had been found, Alfried Krupp resumed control of the firm in 1953.