Ragnar Sohlman

Ragnar Sohlman ( born February 26, 1870 in Stockholm, † July 9, 1948 in Solna, Sweden) was a Swedish chemical engineer, an employee of the public service, and founder of the Nobel Foundation.

Biography

Sohlman was born in 1870 as the son of well-known journalists August Sohlmann and his wife Hulda Maria Sandeberg in Stockholm. In 1887 he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, where he took off in 1890 his degree in chemical engineering. 1893 Sohlman assistant of Alfred Nobel.

Nobel gave in his will, dated November 27, 1895 Sohlman with 100,000 Swedish kronor and made him together with Rudolf Liljequist executor. He assumed here that this Sohlman would spend most of the time. Nobel died on December 10, 1896.

The sum of 100,000 crowns was then a very large amount, and made Sohlman a rich man. The amount of money can be compared with the price of the first Nobel Prize in 1901, 150 782 crowns.

He founded the Nobel Foundation and related the years 1896-1901 with the preparations for the award of the Nobel Prize. Sohlman was a member of the Interim Committee of the Nobel Foundation.

Sohlman also made a career as an engineer and manager in Nobel - related companies such as Bofors. He was also the Director General of the Swedish National Board of trading in 1935 until 1936.

He was the executive director of the Nobel Foundation 1929-1946.