Frans Kempe
Frans Christoffer Kempe (born March 5, 1847 in Härnösand ; † May 26, 1924 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish industrialist and between 1884 and 1917 CEO of MoDo (predecessor of today's Holmen Group).
Frans Kempe was one of the eleven children of Johan Carl Kempes , his mother was his second wife Fanny (née Franzén). He studied medicine at Uppsala University , where he befriended Theodor Magnus Fries , whose father ( Elias Fries ) herbarium he later saved from being sold abroad. After completing his bachelor's degree , however, he left university to work in the wood industry like his father. In 1884 Frans Kempe became CEO of Mo och Domsjö AB , which he expanded into a major national corporation at the beginning of the 20th century. Kempe was considered a responsible person towards his workers, among whom he was very popular. He invested large sums in the maintenance of the company's forests (his interest in botany lasted a lifetime) and built what was then a unique workers' settlement on the Norrbyskäri . In 1900 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, and in 1922 he was accepted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Frans C Kempe at the Reichsarchiv (Swedish), accessed on August 17, 2012
- ↑ Resumé 1700-talet - 1988 Mo och Domsjö AB on holmen.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Swedish), PDF , accessed August 17, 2012
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| SURNAME | Kempe, Frans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kempe, Frans Christoffer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish entrepreneur, CEO of MoDo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Härnösand , Västernorrland County , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1924 |
| Place of death | Stockholm , Stockholm County , Sweden |