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Brigitta Sahlgren ( née Ekmarck; 1694 – 12 May 1771) was a Swedish businessperson. She was the managing director of the '' Sahlgrenska sockerbruket'' ("Sahlgren Sugar Refinery") in 1736–1771 and a trade- and shipping company in 1736–1744.


Life

Brigitta Sahlgren was the daughter of the merchant Olof Pehrsson Ekmarck and Christina Stillman and married in 1715 to merchant Jacob Sahlgren, who founded the first sugar refinery in Sweden, ''Sahlgrenska sockerbruket'', in 1729, which became one of the greatest businesses in Gothenburg. She took over the refinery, as well as the trade- and shipping company which was also owned by her spouse, when she was widowed in 1736. Sahlgren had a monopoly upon the sugar industry in Sweden. When another merchant applied for permission to found a new one in 1740, she sued him before the government and won after a two-year legal battle. She was represented in court by her son-in-law Count Sparre and her brother-in-law
Niclas Sahlgren Niclas Sahlgren (in full Nicolaus Sahlgren) (18March 1701 10March 1776), was a Swedish merchant and philanthropist. Born into a wealthy merchant family in Gothenburg as the son of Nils Pehrsson Sahlgren and Sara Herwegh, Sahlgren was sent at ...
. However, as she did not manage to increase the sugar production to meet the growing demand (which had been the condition of the government demanded of her in exchange for respecting the monopoly of 1729) Nicolas Jacobson was in 1749, after a new legal battle, allowed to open a second sugar refinery in Gothenburg. The Sahlgrenska sockerbruket kept a leading role in the sugar industry nonetheless. Sahlgren died on 12 May 1771, in Gothenburg.


Family

Brigitta Sahlgren had one son, Olaf (died 1758), one daughter, Sara Christina Sahlgren (1723–1766) who married Count Rutger Axel Sparre, and was succeeded after her death by her grandsons; Jacob Sahlgren and Count Gustaf Adolf Sparre.


Gallery

File:Sahlgrenska huset September 2015 01.jpg, Sahlgrenska house in Gothebourg that she had built in 1753 File:Sahlgrenska huset, plakett.JPG, Commemorative plaque mentioning her as "head of the division to the National Board of Trade"


See also

* Margaretha Donner


References

* Släkten Sahlgren från Göteborg : en personhistorisk utredning, Karl Joh. Gezelius, Elanders, Göteborg 1941, s. 10 * Jacob Sahlgren: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Eka-Britta Grage), hämtad 2013-06-12.


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahlgren, Brigitta 1694 births 1771 deaths 18th-century Swedish businesspeople People from Gothenburg Swedish merchants Age of Liberty people Swedish women business executives 18th-century Swedish women 18th-century Swedish businesswomen