Berthold
Beitz became one of the leading industrialists in postwar
Germany. At
the end of 1953, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
appointed Berthold Beitz as his chief executive.
Vice president of the Krupp Foundation, set up
by the German industrial conglomerate to benefit the arts,
Beitz later recalled:
"As I look back, I can now say that I did
something in my life ... I am proud of
what I did out of a sense of humanity. I passed
through that period, as you cross through a dark
forest: with self-assurance and with incredible
luck."
In
1973 Berthold Beitz was honored with the title of Righteous
Among Nations by the state of Israel. The Jewish
Museum in Berlin paid tribute to the ageing German
business leader in December 14, 2002, when Beitz received
the museum's new Understanding and Tolerance Prize.
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