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Relatives. Torsten Kreuger (brother) Signature. Ivar Kreuger ( Swedish: [ˈǐːvar ˈkry̌ːɡɛr]; 2 March 1880 – 12 March 1932) [1] was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908, he co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB, which specialized in new building techniques.
Industrialist, finansman. Skapare av Kreugerkoncernen. Ivar Kreuger (uttalas [kry:ger]), född 2 mars 1880 i Kalmar stadsförsamling, död 12 mars 1932 i Paris, var en svensk ingenjör, företagsledare och finansman, känd som grundare av Kreugerkoncernen. Han tillhörde den borgerliga släkten Kreuger .
Kreuger was portrayed as a great crook, a view that was embraced by those who had lost large sums of money in the crash. Ericsson played an important role in Kreuger's fall. After acquiring a majority shareholding in 1930, he sold his shares the following year to Ericsson's competitor International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT).
21 de dic. de 2009 · Frank Partnoy's book profiles Ivar Kreuger, a Swedish businessman who built a global empire of match, mining, pulp and banking, and collapsed in 1932 amid allegations of fraud. The review examines Kreuger's achievements, manipulations, controversies and legacy for financial regulation.
2 de mar. de 2012 · Ivar Kreuger (born March 2, 1880, Kalmar, Swed.—died March 12, 1932, Paris) was a Swedish financier, known as “the match king,” who attempted to gain a worldwide monopoly over the production of matches. After practicing as a civil engineer in the U.S. and in South Africa, Kreuger returned to Sweden in 1907 and
From autumn 1930, when Ivar Kreuger ensured that people from his match company became chairman and president of Ericsson, the company finally became a part of the international financier's empire, just as it began to falter. The company became a pawn in Kreuger's increasingly desperate maneuvers to save his own boldly constructed financial kingdom.
1932 - The Kreuger Crash. Ivar Kreuger’s enormous financial empire collapsed in the wake of the Wall Street Crash. Despite enormous credits from Swedish banks and the Riksbank, he was unable to get his affairs in order and committed suicide in Paris.
