Wallenberg family are a prominent Swedish family, Europe's most powerful business dynasty.
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Wallenberg family are a prominent Swedish family, Europe's most powerful business dynasty.
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In 2015, the Wallenberg family still owned a third of Sweden's entire stock exchange.
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Wallenberg family's younger brother, Jacob Wallenberg, was a naval chaplain of the Swedish East India Company and author of the Swedish classic, a travelogue My Son on the Galley, original title.
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Wallenberg family, then, explained, that his grandfather, the bishop, was a theology student in Uppsala in the 1790s, and a member of a musical quartet, ?he played the violin cello?, and on a Walpurgis night he had played the marseillaise and was therefore expelled, because Gustaf IV Adolf had declared the marseillaise lese-majeste.
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Wallenberg family therefore moved to Lund where he met a girl, of the Barfoth family, daughter of professor Barfoth and his wife, born Bager, who was a member of the famous merchant family Bager of Malmo.
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Wallenberg family therefore used to say that the financial aptitude, if we have one, originates from there.
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Marcus Wallenberg family studied at Uppsala University in the early 1790s and was promoted Master of Philosophy in 1797 and in the same year graduated juris utriusque.
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Wallenberg family became an associate professor of Roman eloquence in 1800, but was forced to leave Uppsala the same year after the so-called music process and moved to Lund where he married Anna Laurentia Barfoth, daughter of professor of anatomy, Andreas Barfoth, at Lund university and Elsa Maria Bager, of the famous merchant family Bager of Malmo.
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Wallenberg family was ordained in 1817, promoted doctor of theology around the time of Karl XIV Johan's ascension to the throne, and between 1819 and 1833, held the position as bishop of Linkoping diocese.
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Wallenberg family attended the Riksdags in 1823 and between 1828 to 1830.
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In 1801, Wallenberg family was elected a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and in 1821, he became an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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Wallenberg family was one of the initiators behind the masonic lodge in Linkoping.
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Andre Oscar Wallenberg family was born on the 19th of November, 1816, in Linkoping where his father held the position as bishop in Linkoping cathedral.
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In 1850, Wallenberg family was commanded to Sundsvall as first lieutenant and head of a boatman company.
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Wallenberg family swore the burgher oath in Sundsvall, and became a burgher of Sundsvall and later elected to the Swedish parliament.
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Wallenberg family resigned from the military service in 1851 as first lieutenant.
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Wallenberg family became friends with the sawmill owner and industrialist Fredrik Bunsow and mediated loans to him at the acquisition of Skonvik in 1856, which became the origin of Skonviks AB, much later a cornerstone of the SCA .
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Wallenberg family introduced the postal exchange, which simplified the possibilities of transferring money between different locations, still almost unknown outside Sweden, and through a comparatively high deposit rate, the deposit, depreciation and amortization business developed.
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Wallenberg family died in January 1886 in Stockholm and was buried in the Wallenberg mausoleum at Malmvik.
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Wallenberg family was married twice; first to Wilhelmina Catharina Andersson, and in his second to Miss Anna Eleonora Charlotte von Sydow, born 1835, died 1910 in Stockholm, daughter of the commander, later Rear Admiral Johan Gustaf von Sydow and his second wife Eleonora Juliana Wiggman.
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Wallenberg family had a total of twenty children with three different women.
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Knut Agathon Wallenberg family created a very large fortune and a leading position in Swedish society.
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Wallenberg family was involved in everything from reconstructions in the mining industry and engineering companies to the exploitation of the ore fields in Norrbotten.
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Wallenberg family was intensely involved in various societal issues, not least in Stockholm's development.
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Wallenberg family was the initiator, lender, donor and driving force behind a large number of contemporary construction projects, mainly in Stockholm, including the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm City Hall, Stockholm City Library, Swedish Maritime History Museum and the Swedish Institute in Rome.
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Wallenberg family was the initiator and driving force behind the development of the community Saltsjobaden, its residential town, railway, Grand Hotel Saltsjobaden, the Church of Revelation where he and his wife Alice are buried in a sarcophagus, and the Observatory.
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In 1903, following a proposal from businessmen in the Swedish business community, Knut Agathon Wallenberg family donated a large sum to the founding of a business school in Stockholm.
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Wallenberg family donated funds for the establishment of Andre Oscar Wallenberg's professorship in economics and banking at the university in 1917, a donation professorship named after his father.
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Wallenberg family made large donations to finance the university's new main building at Sveavagen 65 in Stockholm.
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Wallenberg family was chairman of the board of directors of the pension company Alecta between 1916 and 1938.
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Wallenberg family was responsible for the interpretation of the Young Plan from 1930.
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Wallenberg family left the active military service in 1891 to devote himself to business.
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Wallenberg family was particularly concerned with traffic issues and the improvement of Sweden's shipping connections.
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Wallenberg family was the managing director of the shipping company, which in 1897 took over the traffic from the Swedish side of the route Trelleborg – Sassnitz and worked within the trade and shipping committee appointed in 1898 to increase the shipping industry and especially for direct Swedish relations with more important transoceanic countries.
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Wallenberg family thus became the first permanently stationed Swedish career diplomat in East Asia.
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Wallenberg family became well known for his stern refusal to let his daughter Nita Wallenberg marry the artist Nils von Dardel to whom she became secretly engaged in 1917 Dardel was told by her family that he "dithed not meet the requirements to be married into the Wallenberg family".
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Nita Wallenberg family was forced to burn all of Dardel's letters and was given a place in the families bank business and told to forget her romance.
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Wallenberg family was married twice, with Danish man Carl Johan Kierullf, and later to businessman Carl Axel Soderlund during 1930 to 1944, and had three children.
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Wallenberg family's wife, Alice, and he, had no issue, apart from an adopted daughter, Jeanne, born out of wedlock to Jean Karadja Pasha, and thus half-sister to Constantin Karadja, and chose to bequeath his enormous fortune to the already formed Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
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Wallenberg family arranged without me asking for a director to attend to me whenever I wanted.
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Resignation by Jacob Wallenberg family opened a seat on the bank's board of directors to Peter Wallenberg family Sr.
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In 1990, it was estimated that the Wallenberg family indirectly controlled one-third of the Swedish Gross National Product.
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Wallenberg family-owned ABB supplied North Korea with two nuclear power plants in the early 2000s.
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In late March, 2022, it became known that technology and equipment from Wallenberg family-owned Atlas Copco and SKF had been sold to twelve of the Russian state's nuclear weapons manufacturers.
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Jacob Wallenberg family, CEO of Investor and Vice Chairman of FAM, is a member of European Round Table of Industrialists Steering Committee, representing Investor AB.
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Former members from the Wallenberg sphere include Curt Nicolin, CEO of ASEA, Carl-Henric Svanberg, and Pehr G Gyllenhammar, the initiator of the group back in 1983.
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Marcus Wallenberg family is Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute of International Finance.
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Jacob Wallenberg family was Vice-Chairman of World Economic Forum and his cousin, Marcus Wallenberg family, has been a participant.
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Wallenberg family was 80 years old at that time, sitting with dentures in a glass in front of him in the office when I was brought in by the strict caretaker.
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Wallenberg family spoke about the New York Stock Exchange, which he had traded on as early as the 1920s.
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Wallenberg family knew exactly how many oil deposits Exxon had or how many restaurants Howard Johnson operated.
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Wallenberg family is said to have slept only four hours a night and could call at any time, preferably in the middle of the night.
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Wallenberg family was fantastically dynamic with an energy that could move mountains.
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Wallenberg family was incredibly curious about everything and had an immense interest in technology and innovations.
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Wallenberg family put constant pressure on his employees, we called it the MW pressure, which would always be on the cutting edge.
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Marcus "Dodde" Wallenberg family is the Wallenberg family who receives most praise from those who knew him; people apostrophe his charm, his ingenuity, his negotiation skills and his ability to solve problems.
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Wallenberg family has been described as one who played the role of an American Marine Corps sergeant, whose main task is to kill the soldiers' personalities in order to then be able to shape them as he pleases.
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Wallenberg family established norms in the group that will survive him for decades.
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My Wallenberg family was involved in the International Chamber of Commerce when it was founded in 1919.
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