Krupp Armaments (Friedrich Krupp AG / ThyssenKrupp, 1811)

Class card for the Krupp steel-and-armaments enterprise founded in Essen, Ruhr by Friedrich Krupp in 1811 as a cast-steel works. Son Alfred Krupp ("Cannon King") takes over 1826 and transforms the firm into the paradigmatic MM-Day military-industrial machine: seamless cast-steel railway wheels (1847), cast-steel cannon (1847), and a decisive demonstration at the London Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851 establishing Krupp steel as a world standard. The Krupp 9-pounder breech-loading field gun (1862) drives Prussian military victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1870–1871), directly enabling German unification. The imperial relationship locks by 1871: the German Imperial Nation-State is Krupp's anchor-demand customer, and Krupp is the primary weapons-systems supplier for the Kaiserreich. At WWI scale: the 420mm Big Bertha howitzer (1914) and the Paris Gun (1918, 130km range) are Krupp superweapons. WWI arms throughput: ~6,000 heavy artillery pieces; shell production at extraordinary scale under Hindenburg Program. WWII production peaks include Tiger tank engines and naval armor; concentration camp slave labor at Krupp plants 1940–1945 (Konzentrationslager Krupp — documented at Nuremberg). Alfried Krupp tried at Nuremberg December 1947 – July 1948, sentenced to 12 years; US-Allied clemency 1951 and all assets returned under Adenauer settlement. The firm reconstitutes through the Federal Republic. ThyssenKrupp merger March 1999 (Thyssen AG + Krupp AG) consolidates the two dominant Ruhr steel-and-industrial firms. Modern ThyssenKrupp: marine systems (Type 212A submarines, MEKO frigates), elevator technology, automotive steel, and specialty materials. In 2026 the machine is an energetic_zombie per atlas MM-07: capacity survives in hollowed form across ThyssenKrupp marine + elevator + steel divisions, but the Krupp-family corporate form that locked the 1811–1968 operational grammar was dissolved by the merger; the 1999 ThyssenKrupp is a residual industrial holding executing prior-era functions without the foundry-to-cannon vertically-integrated sovereignty that made Krupp a civilizational-machine class. [CANON] claims: Friedrich Krupp 1811 founding; Alfred Krupp seamless wheel 1847; Crystal Palace 1851; 9-pounder 1862; Franco-Prussian War 1870–71; Big Bertha 1914; Paris Gun 1918; slave labor 1940–45; Nuremberg trial 1947–48; ThyssenKrupp merger 1999. [EXTRAP] claims: cross-era coupling strengths to military-drone-cyber and TSMC (pattern inference, not direct documented link).