Olof Aschberg

Olof Aschberg ( born July 22, 1877 in Stockholm, Sweden, † April 21, 1960 in Menton, France) was a Swedish banker.

Life

Aschberg parents were Herman Asch and pink Schlossberg and belonged to Judaism. He received a commercial education in several European cities such as Hamburg, London and Paris. His business career began Aschberg in the Swedish textile business. But soon he moved to the financial sector.

He was in 1912 the founder and majority owner of the Swedish Cooperative Bank AB Nya banks and their bank manager until 1918. Offering excellent contacts to the Russian Finance Minister Pyotr Bark ( 1869-1937 ) he could successfully as its representative in the U.S., a Russian loan in an amount of 50 million place dollars.

As a friend of Willi Miinzenberg he was also a financier of his newspaper projects.

Aschberg icons collection

A collection of 245 Russian icons plus about 30 (since 1953), one of the largest collections outside the Soviet Union, goes back to his donation in 1933 to the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm.

Works

• En vandrande Jew från Glasbruksgatan, 1946
• Återkomst: memoarer II, 1947
• Gästboken, 1955
• Gryningen till en ny tid: ur mina memoarer, 1961