Lidingö

Lidingö is a town in the Swedish province of Stockholm County and the historic province of Uppland. It is the capital of the municipality of the same name.

History

1912, the factories of the company Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator (AGA ) were built. 1926 Lidingö got city rights.

In the city the Svenska Aeroplan AB- Flugzeugwerke, who built under license from 1921 Heinkel airplanes were.

Sports

The local sports club IFK Lidingö offers numerous sports.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities

  • Bertolt Brecht, writer, lived there 1939/40, as an escape migrant.
  • Wolf S. Jacobson, escape Emigrant, Orthodox rabbi, head of a center for the rescue of Jewish girls in Lindingö 1945-48
  • Gustav Dalén, engineer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. He lived for a time in Lidingö and eventually died there.
  • Carl Milles, most important Swedish sculptor who lived and died in the city of Lidingö and bequeathed his house with antique art collection and his own works, which is now a museum.
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