André Oscar Wallenberg
André Oscar Wallenberg ( born November 19, 1816 in Linköping, † 12 January 1886 in Stockholm ) was in 1856 the founder of Stockholms Enskilda Banken, 1972 with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Skandinaviska banks ( SEB) merged. Stockholms Enskilda Banken was the first private commercial bank in Sweden. Wallenberg was a Swedish naval officer, newspaper editor and from 1853 to his death, member of the Swedish parliament.
He was the son of the Bishop of Linköping and Homer translator Marcus Wallenberg (* 1774, † 1833) and Anna Laurentia Barfoth (* 1783 in Lund ). He belongs to the major Swedish Wallenberg family, whose wealth he founded. At his death his fortune was 5 million crowns.
He attended from 1825 to 1832 the high school in Linköping in Östergötland and graduated in 1835 his training as an officer in the Swedish Navy in Karlskrona from. In other naval officers who were dissatisfied with the poor equipment of the Navy, he established an inner circle of " Boys Fleet". 1848 published the first article about liberal Wallenberg naval policy and monetary issues in Sweden's largest newspaper Aftonbladet and founded with other young officers the weekly " Bore". In 1850 he was to be transferred to Sundsvall, so you wanted to make him gag. He settled in the same year in Stockholm and began a career as a businessman. First, he founded steamship companies.
As a liberal deputy in the Reichstag, he sat down, inter alia, for the introduction of the French decimal system of weights and measures units a.
In 1854 he married Catharina Wilhelmina Andersson ( † 1855); his second wife he married in 1861 Anna Eleonora Charlotta von Sydow. He is the father of Knut Agathon Wallenberg from his marriage to Catharina Wilhelmina Andersson and Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg, Axel Wallenberg and Marcus Wallenberg from his second marriage to Anna Eleonora Charlotta von Sydow. Overall, he had 21 children
His great-grandson of Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat, who made outstanding contributions to the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust.
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- Petter Karlsson: SEB - 150 years of change, 2006, ISBN 91-7126-067-6, pp. 9 ff