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The Kreuger family in Sweden originate from Johan Kröger (died 1739) from Germany, who immigrated to Kalmar in 1710. He started a bakery in Kalmar in 1710 and married Helena Schultz.

Johan Kröger

Johan Kröger and Helena Schultz had three sons. The sons changed the spelling of their last name to Kreuger:

Peter Kreuger became a clerk in the Swedish Navy in Karlskrona.
Sven Kreuger continued his fathers business with the bakery.
Anders Kreuger started a workshop in Kalmar in 1746 and worked also in the real estate business. He married Maria Bodecker.

Anders Kreuger

Anders Kreuger and Maria had at least two sons:

Johan Fredrik Kreuger moved to Finland and worked within the customs administration.
Peter Kreuger (1758–1807), married Ulrika Åbrandt. He started a combined trading and shipowner company in Kalmar.

Peter Kreuger

Peter Kreuger and Ulrika had several children: One son was Anders Lorentz Kreuger (born 1791, date of death unknown), married to Maria Callerström. Anders Lorenz Kreuger started a trading business in timber and also ran a shipowner company and was appointed the vice consul for Russia in Kalmar.

Anders Lorentz Kreuger

Anders Lorentz Kreuger and Maria Callerström had at least three sons and one daughter:

Pehr Edward Kreuger (1820–1894), married to Carolina Amalia von Sydow.
Johan August Kreuger continued to run the timber trading business his father had founded. One of his sons was the painter Nils Kreuger (1858–1930).
Erik Lorentz Kreuger.
Elisabeth Kreuger, married to Joseph Jennings, a wealthy immigrant from England.

Pehr Edward Kreuger

Together with Joseph Jennings, Pehr Edward Kreuger founded the trading and shipowner company P.E. Kreuger & Jennings Co. Joseph Jennings died at an early age. Pehr Edward Kreuger then continued to run the company by himself. Together with his brother Erik Lorentz Kreuger, he also founded a pulp and paper company close to Emån and in 1871 they bought Fredriksdahl Match Manufacturing Co. Per Edward Kreuger was appointed the vice consul for Russia in Kalmar after his father.

Pehr Edward Kreuger and Carolina had six sons, three of these were:

Oscar Lorentz Kreuger.
Ernst August Kreuger (1852–1946), married to Jenny Emelie (1856–1949), born Forssman, the parents of Ivar Kreuger.
Fredrik Kreuger (born 1858).

Ernst Edward Kreuger became the manager for Fredriksdahl Match Manufacturing Co. and together with his brother Fredrik Kreuger he founded two other match companies; Mönsterås Match Manufacturing Co. and Kalmar Match Manufacturing Co. In parallel with the match manufacturing business in Sweden, Fredrik Kreuger also established a match trading business in London, England around 1880 and lived most of the time in London.

Oscar Lorentz Kreuger founded his own company in Kalmar. He had two sons, Henrik Kreüger (1882–1953) and Erik Kreüger.

Ernst August Kreuger and Jenny Emelie

Ernst August Kreuger and Jenny Emelie had four daughters and two sons:

Ingrid (Kreuger) Ahlström, (1877–1973), married in 1908 to professor Erik Ahlström at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Helga (Kreuger) Hallin, (1878–1969), married in 1906 to the bank manager Axel Hallin (1877–1948), one of Ivar Kreugers advicers in his bank establishments.
Ivar Kreuger, (1880–1932).
Torsten Kreuger, (1884–1973).
Greta (Kreuger) Ekström, (1889–1982), married in 1912 to one of the managers in Swedish Match, engineer Gunnar Ekström (1878–1957).
Britta Kreuger, (1891–1985), never married.

Around 1911–1912 Ernst and his brother Fredrik Kreuger encountered financial problems with their companies. This was the time when Ernst son Ivar Kreuger entered the match business. Ivar was advised by his banker Oscar Rydbeck to turn the factories into a stock corporation in order to raise more capital. This was the starting point for the reformation of the entire Swedish match manufacturing industry as well as the major match companies in Norway and Finland and finally in 1917 Ivar Kreuger founded the Swedish Match, covering the entire Scandinavian match industry.

Gallery

<gallery> File:Portrait of painter Nils Kreuger 1883.jpg|Nils Kreuger (1858–1930), artist. File:Kreuger ca1920.jpg|Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932). File:Torsten Kreuger 01.jpg|Torsten Kreuger (1884–1973). </gallery>

References

Template:Sv icon Lars-Erik Thunholm: Ivar Kreuger. Published by T. Fischer & Co., Stockholm 1995, page 13–16. (ISBN 9170547572)
Lars-Erik Thunholm: Ivar Kreuger. The Match King. Translated into English by George Thiel., 2002. (ISBN 9170549583)