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	Ivar Kreuger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kreuger was born in Kalmar, the eldest son of the banker, industrialist and Russian consul Ernst August Kreuger and his wife Jenny.
		At the peak of his career the Kreuger fortune was estimated at a value of 30 billion Swedish kronor in 1929, equivalent to approximately 100 billion USD in 2000.
		Kreuger is interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Kreuger.htm (771 words)

	Ivar Kreuger
		Kreuger's path to infamy originated from his plan to run a global concern, which in the process loaned a number of governments money in return for 'managing' their nationalised Match industries.
		Ivar Kreuger, was born in Kalmar Sweden on the 2nd of March, 1880, trained as a Structural Engineer, and goes to America.
		Kreuger did however use the stock he had in these and other companies, to raise the money needed to finance other dubious financial enterprises, which it has to be said, neither of these companies were made completely aware of, because the transactions were done through Ivar's holding company, Kreuger and Toll.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /samuel.chapman/Ivar_Kreuger.htm (898 words)

	Why America has a regulated securities market National Forum - Find Articles
		Kreuger was the founder and head of an international conglomerate known as Kreuger & Toll, Inc. This Swedish-based company manufactured wooden matches, which at that time were required in virtually every home in the world to ignite the cooking stove.
		Kreuger's rise and fall epitomized the years of boom and depression between 1918 and 1932.
		The bankruptcy of Kreuger & Toll after Ivar Kreuger's suicide in March 1932 led to changes in financial reporting and the passage of the securities acts in the United States.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3651/is_199710/ai_n8780412 (861 words)

	FNF: Um "eldspýtnamenn" SOURCE: Ivar Kreuger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ivar Kreuger (March 2, 1880 - March 12, 1932) (52) was a Swedish financier,
		Kalmar, the eldest son of the banker, industrialist and Russian consul Ernst Kreuger and his wife Jenny.
		Ivar Kreuger was the inspiration for the "Bjorn Faulkner", a character in
	www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/hly_Eldspytnamenn.htm (768 words)

	Ivar Kreuger and Albert Einstein
		In his work for peace Ivar Kreuger most certainly met Albert Einstein who in February 1932 held speeches in the USA (St. Barbara, Pasadena etc) proposing a sudden disarmament of all national states and the foundation of a super national peace keeping force.
		At exactly the same time Ivar Kreuger met President Hoover in the White House discussing the moratorium for the still democratic Germany, explaining "his" plan for the peaceful European recovery and reconstruction after the devastating First World War.
		There are records of the deeds of Ivar Kreuger to study in archives all over the world and the record of Albert Eintein is good enough.
	www.qikrux.com /Kreuger/albert_einstein_and_ivar_kreuger.htm (491 words)

	kreuger
		Ingrid was born in 1877 and Helga in 1878.
		Ivars little brother Torsten is born in 1884, Greta in 1889 and Britta in 1896.
		On the 12 of March Ivar Kreuger is found dead in his Paris appartement.
	www.loris.a.se /loris/kreuger_e.html (485 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ivar Kreuger (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After studying engineering in Stockholm and engaging in construction enterprises in the United States, he returned to Sweden and organized the firm of Kreuger and Toll.
		In 1913 he began to form a trust to control all aspects of the production of matches in Sweden, and later throughout the world; it eventually became a huge international finance agency.
		Speculation and fraudulent practices during the 1920s wrecked the trust and led to Kreuger's suicide.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kreuger.html (212 words)

	Aasen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		DET VI kan kalle målferda til Ivar Aasen var vedunderlig optimistisk.
		Ivar Aasen, född 5 augusti 1813, död 23 september 1896, norsk språkman och författare.
		Aasen, Ivar Andreas (1813-1896) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of the.
	www.99hosted.com /names4837.html (148 words)

	Ivar Kreuger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He gained a match monopoly and became known as the "Match King".
		In 1929 Kreuger loaned equal to $28 million to Romania.
		Prior to the crash, Kreuger had issued thousands of debentures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivar_Kreuger (794 words)

	Ivar Giaever - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Giaever, Ivar, born in 1929, Norwegian-born American physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics with Japanese physicist Leo Esaki and...
		Kreuger, Ivar (1880-1932), Swedish industrialist and financier, born in Kalmar.
		In 1908 he organized the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll.
	encarta.msn.com /Ivar_Giaever.html (67 words)

	Brokentype
		Jack wrote the beginning , Paul wrote the next one, Alex wrote the one after that, and this is mine.
		"on Ivar Krueger, the Swedish "match king" of the 1920s and early 1930s, it is odd that you would depict an interview with him when, in fact, he committed suicide in the Spring of 1932 at his Paris apartment shortly after having lost a bid for essential loans in New York.
		Krueger for information, he hadn't anticipated it would be Ivar Krueger, the businessman who, since the war’s end, had consolidated the once simple matchmaking business into a global empire.
	www.brokentype.com /blog/000295.html (1532 words)

	Tobaks och Tändsticksmuseum
		Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932) was born in Kalmar and was the son of a match manufacturer.
		Kreuger bought up small match industries, wound them up, and built modern factories able to deal with the stiff competitive climate instead.
		The shots in Paris on 12th March 1932, which took Kreuger?s life, triggered the Kreuger crash, and the resulting bankruptcy involved SEK 3.7 billion - an astronomical sum at that time.
	www.ttmuseum.nu /templates/page.aspx?page_id=50 (150 words)

	The Upper East Side Book: Park Avenue: 791 Park Avenue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king, took the penthouse in 1927, according to James Trager, "Park Avenue, Street of Dreams," (Atheneum, 1990).
		"Early in 1932 the Swedish mountebank Ivar Kreuger shot himself in his Paris apartment, leaving behind a mountain of debt and a New York penthouse at 791 Park.
		Traffic noises bounded off its high brick penthouse parapet, over which ‘unbelievable willow trees,’ planted by Kreuger, tossed ‘great leafy hoopskirts in careless abandon.’ The apartment itself lay empty and ‘dilapidated’ in the wake of its previous owner’s suicide.
	www.thecityreview.com /ues/parkave/park791.htm (368 words)

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		The Loris was designed by the renowned constructor Knut Ljungberg, who later designed the Tärnan for Ivar along with a number of boats for Torsten Kreuger.
		Ivar used the boat to get to his beloved Ängsholmen with his mistress, Ingeborg Hässler, but also for official entertainement.
		In 1932 Ivar Kreuger died in Paris after having shot himself in the heart, and his group of companies went into bankruptcy.
	www.loris.a.se /loris/historik_e.html (520 words)

	Business History: Cases
		Taught in Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years.
		Kreuger companies lent over $300 million dollars to governments in Europe, Latin America, and Asia in exchange for national match monopolies.
		Relying on international capital markets to finance acquisitions and monopoly deals, by 1929 the stocks and bonds of Kreuger companies were the most widely held securities in the United States and the world.
	www.hbs.edu /businesshistory/cases.html (2959 words)

	Famous Suicides Ivar Kreuger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Life: Swedish industrialist and "Match King" Ivar Kreuger was the world's most brilliant thief, forger, gambler, and swindler.
		His generous state loans gained for him the reputation of "Savior of Europe" and "Savior of the World." Obsessed with the continuous growth of his empire, Kreuger purchased everything from gold mines, forests, and railways to telephone companies, film companies, and banks.
		Death: Kreuger forged signatures on loan papers, faked financial records, created imaginary banks to hold imaginary money, and was engaged in innumerable other fraudulent business transactions.
	www.trivia-library.com /a/famous-suicides-ivar-kreuger.htm (243 words)

	Stora Enso - Swedish Match
		Swedish Match Aktiebolag was founded by Ivar Kreuger as Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolag in 1917.
		Swedish businessman and speculator Ivar Kreuger amalgamated Sweden’s match producers and established Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolag in 1917.
		The difficulties came to light in 1932 when Kreuger died, evidently by his own hand.
	www.storaenso.com /CDAvgn/main/0,,1_-5640-12374-,00.html (164 words)

	Behind the Name: View Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ivar Lo-Johansson was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school.
		Ivar Kreuger was a Swedish financier, entrepreneur and industrialist.
		In the time between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businesspeople in Europe, basing his business activities on match production.
	www.behindthename.com /comment/view.php?name=ivar (87 words)

	Kreuger & Toll Company - Ivar Kreuger the Match King - Sweden 1930
		This historic document was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman flying on a wheel with wings while holding a torch.
		Ivar Kreuger, a Swede, was the famous "match king" who acquired monopolies to sell matches in various countries around the world.
		If you are publishing a book for educational purposes or with the press, please contact us directly at 703-787-3552 for use of our content.
	www.scripophily.net /krtocosw19.html (487 words)

	Ivar Krueger The Swedish Match King
		Every dollar of the billions Kreuger and his gang drew out of this Country on acceptances was drawn from the government and the people of the United States through the Fed. The credit of the United States Government was peddled to him by the Fed for their own private gain.
		"The nature of Kreuger's organized swindle and the bankrupt condition of Kreuger's combine was known here last June when Hoover sought to exempt Krueger's loan to Germany of $125,000,000 from the operation of the Hoover Moratorium.
		The bankrupt condition of Krueger's swindle was known her last summer when $30,000,000 was taken from the American taxpayers by certain bankers in New York for the ostensible purpose of permitting Krueger to make a loan to Colombia.
	www.ivarkrueger.com /index.htm (9395 words)

	WorldCom adds to string of scandals - Jun. 26, 2002
		Before WorldCom, Enron and Adelphia made headlines, the savings & loan crisis was at the top of the accounting scandal list, and long-ago schemes by Charles Ponzi and Ivar Kreuger, among others, wiped out millions of investors' dollars.
		Another major scandal early in the century involved an international scheme operated by the "Match King," Ivar Kreuger, who held a virtual monopoly on household match production in Europe.
		After World War I, Kreuger, a Swede, backed by U.S. capital, lent money to war-torn countries in exchange for monopoly rights to the match business.
	money.cnn.com /2002/06/26/news/companies/accounting_scandals (1018 words)

	Ivar Kreuger (1998) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These tv-series about Ivar Kreuger is perhaps a good tv-serie but very very boring....
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		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Ivar Kreuger (1998) (TV)
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		The classic bubble has been repeated in various forms ever since, the chaos left in their wake toppled the government of Albania in 1997, and yet more recently, caused no end of trouble in South Africa.
		Ivar Kreuger built a marvelous bubble out of a match company early in the last century, but it collapsed in dramatic fashion in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash.
		Pyramid Schemes (like the “Make Money Fast” epidemic) — Ponzi on a Xerox budget — are only a percentage of the many scams to proliferate on-line.
	www.sniggle.net /scams.php (1549 words)

	Scandal
		The Case of Ivar Kreuger; An Adventure in Finance.
		Kreuger, Ivar, 1880-1932; Svenska tändsticks AB--History; Kreuger and Toll--History; Sveriges riksbank--History; Commercial criminals--Sweden--Biography; Swindlers and swindling--Sweden--Biography; International finance--Corrupt practices--History; Match industry--History.
		Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It.
	www.kipnotes.com /Scandal.htm (2446 words)

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