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  Wallenberg family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcus Wallenberg (1774–1833), nephew of Jacob Wallenberg, bishop in Linköping.
Axel Wallenberg (1874–1963), son of Oscar Wallenberg, industrialist and diplomat, envoy in Washington 1921–1926.
Marcus Wallenberg, Marc Wallenberg Jr and Jacob Wallenberg
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallenberg   (704 words)

  
 Swedes Reassess How Neutrality Assisted Nazis
Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg -- the brothers who ran the family holding company -- were involved in most Swedish trade, since their holdings were so vast.
Jacob Wallenberg, the memo said, also "recently indicated that he was willing to sell to the Germans a Swedish plant in Hamburg for gold, provided the price was high enough to compensate for possible future complications from the Allies."
Most recently, Sweden's TV 2 brought Jacob Wallenberg into the story with the discovery of a central bank document alleging that as late as August 1944 -- after Sweden had halted gold purchases -- Wallenberg contacted the central bank seeking its blessing to purchase additional gold from Germany, a request that was denied.
cmmg.biosci.wayne.edu /asg/wallenberg.html   (1194 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg belongs — or belonged — to one of the most famous families in Sweden, the large Wallenberg family.
Wallenberg's ally Szalay was sent to deliver a note to Schmidthuber explaining that Raoul Wallenberg would make sure that the general would be held personally responsible for the massacre and that he would be hanged as a war criminal after the war.
Wallenberg requested, and was given permission to visit the Soviet military headquarters in the city of Debrecen east of Budapest.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/wallenberg.html   (3831 words)

  
 Nazi Gold: Operation Andrew, Sweden and Nazi Gold"
In the letter Morgenthau identified Jacob Wallenberg as strongly pro-Nazi and rebuts the claim that Marcus was pro-Ally.
A. While Marcus Wallenberg was apparently sympathetic with the allied cause, Jacob Wallenberg, his brother and partner in the Enskilda Bank was known to be sympathetic to and working with the Germans.
Jacob Wallenberg is a member of the Permanent Joint Swedish- German Trading Commission and Marcus Wallenberg is a member of the Joint Standing Committee created by the Ango-Swedish Trading Agreement.
www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/goldp5.html   (3363 words)

  
 IP Mag Archive 08/07/1999 Raoul Wallenberg
Wallenberg managed to print more than three times their "quota" of passes and he used these to keep thousands of Jews free.
Wallenberg stepped up his rescue efforts and in many cases managed to save Jews from the Nazis with his intelligence, decisive action, and courage as his only weapons.
Through Szalay, Wallenberg sent Schmidthuber a note promising that he, Raoul Wallenberg, would make sure the general was held personally responsible for the massacre and that he would be hanged as a war criminal when the war was over.
www.incrediblepeople.com /people(1999-08-07).htm   (2350 words)

  
 j. - Sweden’s Wallenbergs explained in family biography
Jacob praised the British for their tolerance of Jews and Catholics and wondered why Sweden could not accept these minorities as well.
Although Wallenberg was not part of the family’s inner circle, his upbringing was like that of the “crown princes.” He, too, traveled and studied abroad, learning several languages and making valuable contacts.
In 1945 Wallenberg was captured by the Russians and imprisoned in a series of jails and mental hospitals.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/24599/format/html/displaystory.html   (667 words)

  
 Speaker Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jacob Wallenberg is Chairman of the Board of SEB, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Vice-Chairman of Investor AB and Vice-Chairman of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Wallenberg was educated at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1980 and an MBA in 1981.
Wallenberg was appointed CEO in 1997 and Chairman of the Board in 1998.
www.wharton.upenn.edu /alumni/regional_alumni_meetings/2003/berlin/berlin_speakerbios.html   (2687 words)

  
 Business Financing » Arsip blog » Patience Pays Off At Investor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jacob may increase Investor’s stakes and influence in companies such as Scania, where it has 10.6% of the capital and 19.3% of the votes, and ABB, where Investor now owns 8%.
Wallenberg and his team have a big say over who is appointed CEO at their main companies.
Jacob serves as an adviser to the mayor of Shanghai and frequently meets with Premier Wen Jiabao.
business-financing.mega-blogs.com /?p=2   (1138 words)

  
 AJC - The Wallenberg Mystery: Fifty-five Years Later - Endnotes
The article was translated by Jacob Wallenberg and made available to the author by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States.
Letter by Jacob Wallenberg, vice chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, to the editor of the London Evening Standard, June 4, 1993, made available to the author by the Wallenberg Committee.
On July 7, 1947, Vyshinsky wrote to Abakumov asking where Wallenberg was taken under the protection of the Soviet military, to what places he was subsequently moved, whether there was fighting or bombing in the area, whether he had freedom of movement, and whether he had been in touch with members of the Swedish legation.
www.ajc.org /site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=848905&ct=1054587   (1804 words)

  
 In MIT talk, Wallenberg urges United States and E.U. to cooperate on environment - MIT News Office
The United States and the European Union are closer on environmental issues than is generally perceived, Swedish business leader and environmentalist Jacob Wallenberg told an MIT audience on Sept. 9.
The Wallenberg Lectures are organized in connection with the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program on Sustainability and the Environment.
Wallenberg urged both the E.U. and the U.S. to continue to pursue common objectives.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2002/wallenberg-0918.html   (403 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wallenberg, Raoul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wallenberg, Raoul WALLENBERG, RAOUL [Wallenberg, Raoul] 1912-47, Swedish diplomat and businessman.
In 1944, he was assigned to Sweden's legation in Budapest, where he helped save approximately 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi extermination.
History in the Media.(Russia admits arrest and murder of Raoul Wallenberg; mummified animals found in Egyptian tombs; 'Seahenge' may be returned to the sea; other historical topics)
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13604.html   (240 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg - SWEDEN.SE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Raoul’s father, Raoul Oscar Wallenberg, was a naval officer and a cousin of Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, two of Sweden’s best-known financiers and industrialists during the half century beginning around 1930.
Through Jacob Wallenberg’s network of contacts in the business world, he was eventually introduced to a Hungarian Jew, Koloman Lauer, who ran a Swedish-based import and export firm specializing in foodstuffs.
Because Raoul Wallenberg had a good feeling for languages and could travel freely around Europe, he was a perfect business partner for Lauer.
www.sweden.se /templates/cs/FactSheet____13640.aspx?PageNr=2   (653 words)

  
 Sweden probes a dark secret by Walter V. Robinson 97/06/07 Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But a darker chapter is being written now about the Wallenberg family and its extensive business empire, as Sweden confronts dismaying new evidence that the country's wartime collaboration was more extensive than is widely known, and that the Wallenberg family profited from secret dealings with the Nazis.
In an interview, Wallenberg said that, other than the abortive attempt to front for the Bosch company, he has not seen serious evidence to substantiate the charges that have surfaced in the news media.
Wallenberg has ordered that the family archives be opened to the government commission.
www.dhh-3.de /biblio/news/1997/0607   (2461 words)

  
 The disappearance of a hero in The AnswerBank: People & Places
RAOUL Wallenberg is one of the 20th Century's greatest heroes.
Wallenberg, aged 32, and his chauffeur were arrested in 1945 by Russia's Red Army and imprisoned as spies.
The Swedish-Russian investigating panel suggested that Wallenberg may have been kept alive as a secret prisoner in Soviet jails, with the intention of using him as exchange currency with the West, but Russian experts maintain he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka prison in 1947.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article274.html   (627 words)

  
 New Interests for Sweden's Investor Company
Wallenberg, 50, quickly put a new management team, headed by Chief Executive Börje Ekholm, 42, in place.
Now, says Wallenberg, "we are working actively with our portfolio." First order of business: Running a sharp eye over each of Investor's stable of 11 core companies and working out the best plan they can for each.
Wallenberg's most dramatic move so far has been Investor's $5.6 billion buyout with its private equity affiliate, EQT, of kidney dialysis and medical clinic specialist Gambro in May. Investor already controlled the company but thought taking it private would be the best route to a radical remake.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/06_26/b3990409.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories   (903 words)

  
 Outraged in Europe Over ABB- Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The storm of criticism comes at a vulnerable time for the Wallenbergs, as two cousins, Marcus and Jacob, are still feeling their way as the new leaders of the family.
One former Wallenberg manager says that whatever Barnevik's foibles, Investor may be in worse shape without him.
The reasoning: Marcus Wallenberg, Investor's 45-year-old CEO, isn't seasoned enough for the top job; Claes Dahlback, a former Investor CEO who replaced Barnevik as chairman, is too much the Wallenbergs' man; and Marcus' cousin Jacob, also 45, isn't tough or savvy enough to take on Ebner.
www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/crisis/corporate/2002/0304abba.htm   (1125 words)

  
 The Wallenberg Endowment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In her book, Wallenberg: Missing Hero, Hungarian-born journalist Kati Marton notes that this apprenticeship turned out to be an education of a different sort.
In the spring of 1937, Gustav Wallenberg died suddenly.
In 1941, Jacob Wallenberg, Raoul’s uncle and godfather, set him up in Stockholm with Kalman Lauer, a Hungarian who ran an export-import firm trading between Stockholm and Central Europe.
www.rackham.umich.edu /wallenberg/business.html   (340 words)

  
 j. - Did Wallenberg's family aid Nazis while he saved Jews?
The Wallenberg documents shed light on "Sweden's involvement with and collaboration with the Nazis during the war," Steinberg said.
The disclosed information about the collaboration between the Nazi regime and Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg suggests a reason for the feeble attempt to find their nephew.
The Soviet authorities maintained that Raoul Wallenberg died in prison in 1947, but others have claimed that he was alive as late as the 1980s.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/3877/format/html/displaystory.html   (408 words)

  
 A ESPIONAGEM ALIADA NA 2.ª GUERRA MUNDIAL
According to Wallenberg, Himmler envisioned using the SS and the Nazi Party security apparatus as bargaining chips in an unrealistic scenario in which Germany, governed by him in alliance with the Western Powers, would turn their guns on the Russians and defeat the mutually hated Communist bogey.
When Jacob Wallenberg finally re-appeared—having been in Germany or elsewhere in Europe—he reported that the Resistance situation had changed in Germany because of increased focus by the Gestapo on the military—particularly Abwehr dissidents and certain prominent civilians with whom they were allied in the Widerstand.
What Hewitt and presumably Jacob Wallenberg did not know at this time was that Hitler's deputy, Martin Bormann, and Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller had found a way to establish secret contact with the Soviets, on whom they were placing their bets for determining the fate of Europe after the War.
www.arlindo-correia.com /060702.html   (14081 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
According to documents recently cited in Swedish reports, the family of Raoul Wallenberg, the wartime Swedish diplomat in Budapest who saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews and later died in Russia, is revealed to have participated in the trade of Nazi Germany's wartime gold.
The documents suggest the Wallenberg family was sympathetic to the Germans and thought they would win the war.
In 1944, after Raoul Wallenberg had already helped many Jewish families in Hungary, another senior member of the clan, Jacob Wallenberg, attempted to sell state bonds for Nazi gold.
www.rferl.org /features/1997/01/F.RU.970127141934.asp   (597 words)

  
 Celsius Centre for Scandinavian Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He appears to be the type of person one would pass on the street and continue walking.
Raoul Wallenberg, whom I will refer to simply as Raoul, belonged to a large and affluent family in Sweden.
Through Raoul's cousin, Jacob Wallenberg, he was introduced to Koloman Lauer, a Hungarian Jew and director of a Swedish based import and export company.
www.ssn.flinders.edu.au /scanlink/nornotes/vol3/articles/mcrae1.html   (1939 words)

  
 The Kingdom of Sweden - a background
Furthermost aft, Wallenberg tells, was were the officials' cabins and the medicine chest, which also doubled as pulpit for the priest on Sundays.
From there on, along the larboard corridor came the deckhands' hammocks; the second table where 'better food was eaten' and then a smaller table where the cadets (mid-shipmen) 'had their peas'.
The starboard corridor led around three oxen, the anchor rope and 'there among the chests were the mid-shipmen and the carpenter'.
www.gotheborg.com /exhibition/gotheborg.shtml   (2878 words)

  
 Nazi Bank Connections
Morgenthau identifies Jacob Wallenberg as "strongly pro-German" and rebuts the view, probably fostered by Wallenberg interests themselves, that Marcus was "pro-Allied".
While his family’s bank was funding Hitler and helping to hide Nazi investments, Marcus and Jacob’s nephew Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, was saving an estimated 20,000 Jews from deportation by providing them with special Swedish passports.
When the Red Army liberated Budapest in January 1945, Wallenberg was arrested as an American spy and vanished.
www.copi.com /articles/nazibank.html   (975 words)

  
 Bibliography and Bookstore Holocaust
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary.
Jacobs, Steven J. The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought.
Rosenfeld, H. The Swedish Angel of Rescue: The Heroism and Torment of Raoul Wallenberg.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/bibholo.html   (2712 words)

  
 Report From Atlas Copco's Annual General Meeting 2005 : ArriveNet Press Releases : Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sune Carlsson, Jacob Wallenberg, Gunnar Brock, Staffan Bohman, Kurt Hellstrom, Thomas Leysen, Ulla Litzen, Grace Reksten Skaugen, and Anders Ullberg were re-elected members of the Board.
Sune Carlsson was elected Chairman of the Board and Jacob Wallenberg Vice Chairman.
Sune Carlsson (Chairman), Jacob Wallenberg and Kurt Hellstrom were re-elected to serve on the Remuneration Committee.
press.arrivenet.com /industry/article.php/628356.html   (858 words)

  
 The Local - Wallenberg attacked for "jobless growth" remarks
SEB Chairman Jacob Wallenberg, heir apparent to the Wallenberg corporate dynasty, has drawn sharp reactions from Metal Workers Union leader Göran Johnsson and Industry and Trade Minister Thomas Östros for his remarks on "jobless growth" in Sweden.
In Tuesday’s DI issue, Jacob Wallenberg said that he doesn’t see jobs arising in Sweden in the coming year and that the Swedish industry had shifted to increased productivity without need for new recruits - or the so-called "jobless growth".
Energy company Vattenfall is to unveil today plans to invest in wind power in Sweden after the company was harshly criticised for its coal investments in Germany.
www.thelocal.se /article.php?ID=651&date=20041119   (503 words)

  
 SWIFT - Conferences - Past conferences - Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jacob Wallenberg is Chairman of the Board of Investor AB and Vice Chairman of SEB, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, an institution where he was CEO in 1997 and Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2004.
He is also a Board Member of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and of W Capital Management AB.
Mr Wallenberg is Vice Chairman of the Boards of Atlas Copco AB and SAS AB.
www.swift.com /index.cfm?item_id=57848   (1288 words)

  
 CareerJournal | Who's News -- Executive Job Changes
Wallenberg is expected to be named chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken -- in which Investor AB holds 21% -- succeeding Jacob Wallenberg.
Jacob Wallenberg, a cousin of Marcus Wallenberg, will be elected chairman of Investor AB, succeeding Claes Dahlback, who is retiring.
Ekholm, 42 years old, is head of Investor AB's investment-business unit, whose value increased by 486 million Swedish kronor, or about €53 million, during the first quarter of 2005.
www.careerjournal.com /recruiters/whosnews/2005/04/20050413-whosnews-3.html   (161 words)

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