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A new photograph of “The Cannon King’s Daughter” Engelbertha Krupp Stroebele has emerged seemingly from a Getty Images website some 15 years after the release of David Stroebel’s 2010 book The Cannon King’s Daughter. The title of the photograph is Alfred Krupp in the circle of his family and employees, 1868.

Note: The young girl in white is “family” not “employee” and her identity as Clara Bruch by the Alfred Krupp Foundation as Clara Bruch has already been debunked by British Conductor and music scholar Max Bruch who is a respected and recognized biographer of Clara Bruch’s husband, Max Bruch.

It is currently unknown to this author where Getty Images obtained this photograph, but they ascertained the date incorrectly. Englebertha appears to be approximately 10 years of age, suggesting the below photograph was taken c.1864, not 1869. The photograph further down at the bottom titled Krupp Family with friends – 1868 from the late Klaus Tenfelde’s book:  Pictures of Krupp. Photography and History in the Industrial Age was taken approximately in 1872 given that Engelbertha had already departed Essen for the City of Sigmaringen around 1873/74 with finance John Stroebele who was an employee of her father Alfred Krupp.

Below: Photograph titled; Krupp Family with Friends c. 1869

Here’s the annual list of the 31 Veterans in our very broad American Stroebele family living around the country since the arrival of John and Engelbertha Stroebele in 1882 and John’s brother Otto in 1866. I admire and have been inspired by them all.  Cousins, if I’ve forgotten anyone, please message me.

Happy Veterans Day to them all, past and present.

Franco-Prussian War of 1870:

-John J. Stroebele, Sr.

Spanish-American War:

-Pvt. John J. Stroebele, Jr.

World War I:

-Joseph Roman Wizner, Merchant Marine

World War II:

-Col. Peter O.E. Bekker, Sr, USAAF/USAF

-Capt (Dr) Joseph E. Harlow, USAF

-2Lt. Theodore J. Beebe, Jr, USAAF/USAF

-1Lt. Otto “Dave” W. Stroebel, US Army

-1Lt. Woodrow P. Stroebel, US Army

-1Lt. Harold C. Stroebel, US Army

-BM1 Roland G. Stroebel, US Navy

-Pvt. Warren R. Stroebel, US Army

-MM2 John ‘Jack’ J. Strobel, US Navy

-Pvt. John Sedan Stroebele, US Army

-Pvt. John Camadine, US Navy

-Pvt. Herman Borchers, US Army

-John J. Wizner, US Navy

-Pvt. James Beebe, US Army

-Edward Beckley, Merchant Marine

Korean War:

-1Lt. Theodore J. Beebe, Sr.,

-Pvt. Charles M. Stroebele

Vietnam War:

-A1C Howard “Howie” F. Stroebel, Jr, USAF

-John T. Wizner, US Army

-David G. Wizner, US Navy

-John “Jackie” Stephen Stroebele, USMC, NY Army National Guard (first Marine in the family line)

-Sgt. Sheila M. Maher, USAF (first woman in our family to enter the military)

Operation DESERT STORM:

-David Stroebel, USAF reserve

Afghanistan/Iraq War:

-Brian Shaver, US Army

Peacetime:

-Christopher J. Wizner, USMC

-TSgt Raymond E. Stroebel, USAF

-Steve Camadine, US Navy

-HR Cornell, Oklahoma Army National Guard

To bring the story of my Great-Grandmother’s banishment from Germany’s Krupp steel family of Essen to a wider audience, I have created a YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to get updated videos where I will talk about my book, The Cannon King’s Daughter and bring you up close and personal from our family living in the United States.

YouTube.com/DavidStroebel

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Seeking Board of Directors for the newly-formed Engelbertha Krupp Charitable Foundation. Please click the link below for details and to apply:

https://www.bridgespan.org/jobs/nonprofit-jobs/position-details?jobId=29066&fbclid=IwAR1oe9IV3AkbyBGTVfjch2Sh1CCFVEN-9d-frXgVScMByCiXMzNtKt2rrLw 

The Engelbertha Krupp Charitable Foundation, whose mission is centered on Jersey City’s needy, is now forming and accepting resumes for its Board of Directors. Please respond to EKFound@gmail.com. Thank you. #Kruppstahl #boardofdirectors

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This was my home at 544 Liberty Ave in Jersey City while I was in first and second grade in 1970-71. We moved there so my father could be closer to work at Eagle Beef on Central Ave. Humble beginnings.

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Does anyone do this anymore? Anywhere in the world? I search my memory, but I cannot remember this occurring recently. It should. This is an amazing display of humanity.

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Any philanthropists out there that would like to help fund a foundation named in honor of Engelbertha Krupp? The foundation would help lower homelessness and domestic abuse of women in Jersey City, NJ where my great-grandmother immigrated to. These were issues that my great-grandmother experienced. First quote for a website came in between $2,500 and $3,500. Her brother Friedrich Krupp inherited a multi-billion dollar steel firm in 1887. She did not. This will her hers, something with her name on it

The 1884 Jersey City home of John and Engelbertha Stroebele at 24 Beacon Ave in Jersey City as it appears in 2018. This is the second home the couple lived in since their emigration from Sigmaringen in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.