Helene Amalie Krupp (1732–1812) was a German industrialist.Béatrice Craig,
Women and Business since 1500: Invisible Presences in Europe and North America?
' She was married to Friedrich Jodocus Krupp (1706–1757), owner of the Krupp merchant house, which she took over after his death. She traded in food, spices, textiles, cloth and porcelain between Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. She founded a

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factory and managed an iron works in the Ruhr in 1799-1807. She has been referred to as the founder of the

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dynasty. Two mines and a street have been named after her.

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