Torsten Kreuger (17 June 1884 – 12 October 1973) was a Swedish engineer, industrialist, newspaper owner and banker.

Personal life

Kreuger was born in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 41,388 inhabitants in 2020 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

, a son of , and a brother of

Ivar Kreuger Ivar Kreuger (; 2 March 1880 – 12 March 1932) 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. B ...

. He was married three times, first to Elsa Anna Cecilia Tamm (from 1913), second to Mary Wilhelmina Nobel (from 1934), and third to Diana Blanchfleure Hedberg (from 1942).

Issue

''With Diana Blanchfleure Hedberg'' * 6 Sten Kreuger (b. 1944) * 7 John Kreuger (b. 1945) ⚭: Estelle Ax:son Johnson (b.?) m.?- div.?; member of the Ax:son Johnson Family
⚭: Princess Irina of Romania, third daughter of King Michael I of Romania and his wife Queen Anne, m. 1983 - div. 2003 ** Michael Torsten de Roumanie-Kreuger (b. 1984) ⚭ Tara Marie Littlefield *** Kohen de Roumanie-Kreuger (b. 2012) ** Angelica Margareta Bianca de Roumanie-Kreuger (b. 1986) ⚭ Richard Robert Knight (div. 2018) *** Courtney Bianca Knight (b. 2007) *** Diana Knight (b. 2011)

Career

Kreuger graduated from the

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology (, commonly referred to as Chalmers) is a private university, private research university located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers focuses on engineering and science, but more broadly it also conducts research ...

in 1905, and undertook further studies at the

KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...

. On behalf of his father and uncle he established and developed the match factory Kalmar tändsticksfabrik, and was also involved in a factory for producing machinery for match production. During the 1920s he became interested in acquiring ownership of newspapers. He was owner of the newspapers ''

Stockholms Dagblad ''Stockholms Dagblad'' was a conservative morning newspaper published in Stockholm between 1824 and 1931. History and profile ''Stockholms Dagblad'' was established on 2 January 1824 as a newspaper for the Swedish capital. Under the editorship o ...

'' and ''

Aftonbladet (, lit. "The evening paper") is a Swedish language, Swedish daily tabloid newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. History and profile The newspaper was founded by Lar ...

'', and for a short period also ''

Stockholms-Tidningen ''Stockholms-Tidningen'' () was a Swedish-language morning newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1889 and 1984 with an interruption from 1966 to 1981. It was one of the major dailies in the country together with ''Dagens Nyheter'' and ...

''. In 1932 he was sentenced to prison for fraud.

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* 1884 births 1973 deaths People from Kalmar Chalmers University of Technology alumni 20th-century Swedish engineers 20th-century Swedish businesspeople Swedish fraudsters Swedish prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Sweden People convicted of fraud {{Sweden-business-bio-stub