Claes Adelsköld

Claes Adolf Adelsköld ( born September 7, 1824 Nolhaga, Alingsås, † October 1, 1907 in Stockholm) was a Swedish railway builder, architect, Major, member of the Reichstag and writer.

Adelsköld studied at the School of Applied Arts Chalmerska in Gothenburg and also served in the Göta Artillery Regiment. In 1844 he was promoted and 1852 Military Police Regiment to Lieutenant sub - lieutenant in Värmland. In the same year he founded the väg -och vattenbyggnadskåren ( road and hydraulic engineering corps ). In 1849 he took over at the eight -kilometer Frykstadbanan in Värmland, Sweden's first public railway line, the ground-breaking ceremony. During the next 26 years he worked as a railroad builder and developed proposals for more than 300 miles of private railway lines in Sweden. Even he built over 70 miles with all the station buildings, bridges and harbor buildings. Even for channeling work and other objects, sometimes in Finland, he was responsible.

In 1857 he became president in 1862 and director of the northern and 1865 also director of middle väg -och vattenbyggnadsdistriktes. These offices had Adelsköld held until 1875. In 1865 he was a representative of the state in Hjälmare Canal Company and in 1891 chairman of the channel Commission.

From 1875 to 1893 Adelsköld a member of the Swedish Parliament, first for Västerbotten County and later Blekinge län. He showed great interest in questions of defense and submitted to parliament in 1892 a request for a combined land and sea - defense. In 1878 was elected as a member of the Appropriations Committee and was in 1877 and 1878, state auditors.

In 1867 he bought the Steninge Castle in Sigtuna. Here social gatherings were held, among other things, with guests such as Prince Oscar ( the future King Oscar II ). The castle he sold again in 1873. Instead, he acquired the castle in 1876 Nolhaga in Alingsås, which is a conference center today. He was in 1870 elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where he took over the presidency in 1891. Since 1879 he also sat in the Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg. In 1887 he moved with his family to Stockholm in the new Adelsköldsche Villa at Villa Staden district.

After Claes Adolf Adelsköld the Adelsköldsgatan was named in the vicinity of the railway station in Alingsås.

Swell

• Article Adelsköld, Claes ( Claes ) Adolf in Nordisk familjebok, 1904
• Article Adelsköld, KA Nordisk familjebok, 1922
• Nordisk Familjebok 1956, articles and photo
• National Encyclopedia 1989.
• Gunilla Linde Bjur: Stationshus - Järnvägsarkitektur i Sverige. Stockholm 2010, ISBN 978-91-85581-16-0