12 Facts About Carl-Gustaf Herlitz

Carl-Gustaf Victor Herlitz was a Finnish business director and Vuorineuvos.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was the managing director of the Arabia porcelain factory in Helsinki from 1916 to 1947, when the Herlitz family was a major owner of Arabia.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was radical right-wing in his political views and advocated a hard line in relation to the trade union movement.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz's father was Gustaf Herlitz, who was the technical director of the Arabian plant set up in Helsinki by the Swedish Rorstrand group and, from 1893, the managing director.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz graduated from the Polytechnic College in 1906 as a chemical engineer and then worked in Arabia.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz drew up a major reform plan for Arabia, which began in 1919.

In 1923, Arabia bought the bankrupt Turku porcelain factory, which manufactured electrical insulated porcelain, and Carl-Gustaf Herlitz became its managing director.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was the first in Finland to introduce the Bedaux method, based on standardization and labor standards, which represented Tayloristic rationalization and used to tighten the pace of work.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was strictly right-wing in his political views and advocated a hard line in relation to the trade union movement.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was a right-wing member of the Swedish People's Party and represented the RKP in the Helsinki City Council from 1931 to 1934.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz formed a counter petition to the "statement of the thirty-three" of the Peace opposition and was one of the funders and backers of the Aftonposten newspaper, founded in the summer of 1944 by Swedish-speaking right-wing radicals.

Carl-Gustaf Herlitz was awarded the title of Vuorineuvos in 1932.