Hans Lagerlöf

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Hans Lagerlöf (1926)

Benjamin Hans Lagerlöf , also Lagerloef (born March 29, 1880 in Tåby, Norrköping in Östergötland , † May 11, 1952 in New York City ) was a Swedish merchant, donor and philatelist , who as an emigrant in New York City with the trade of Wood pulp and paper built a fortune.

Life

Lagerlöf was the son of the customs officer and district administrator Carl Johan Lagerlöf (1817-1885) and his wife Clara Regina (nee de Broen). He was a brother of Fenix ​​Carl Lagerlöf (1878-1961), and the cousin of the writer and translator Erland Lagerlöf (1854-1913), the music director and pianist Magnus Lagerlöf (1864-1950) and Selma Lagerlöfs . He started collecting stamps as a boy in Stockholm. He received his commercial training in various trading houses in Germany, England and France. After studying in Stockholm, he came to the United States in 1903 as a State Trade Fellow. In 1904 he married the Lübeck painter Clara Lenz . Lagerlöf initially worked in the Scandinavian-American Trading Company in the paper import business, where he experienced a rapid rise in management positions. During a trip to Sweden during the First World War in 1917 on the Danish ship Frederik VIII , parts of his luggage were confiscated by British authorities because it contained contraband ( rubber and tungsten ). On December 3, 1917, a request was made in the British House of Commons about alleged sympathy and support of Lagerlöf for the German side.

52 Vanderbilt Ave. (2010)

With effect from January 1, 1918, Lagerlöf went into business for himself with the Lagerloef Trading Company , which imported pulp and paper primarily from Finland for the North American market. The company's headquarters were at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue next to Grand Central Station . He also held shares in the Svenska America Lines .

He invested the money he earned in postage stamps. As a philatelist, he built up one of the largest stamp collections in the world and supported a number of museums as a patron . Parts of his collection also found their way into the large postal museums. The Postal Museum in Stockholm received its Red and Blue Mauritius, which it acquired around 1912 or shortly thereafter, as outstanding items, along with a large number of other stamps . The National Philatelic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution , now the National Postal Museum , also received substantial and extensive special collections from him. The donations from his collections have been regularly received by the museums in Stockholm since 1922 and were dedicated to the memory of his mother or other people close to him. The Postal Museum published six comprehensive registers of these donations.

As a philatelist, he received numerous awards for his special collections, for example at the Third International Philatelic Exhibition in 1936 in the Grand Central Palace in New York. He himself donated the 1943 Lagerloef Award of the Society of Philatelic Americans as an award . After his death, his collections were auctioned with his own catalogs. Lagerlöf was a member of the Royal Swedish Sailing Society (KSSS).

The family lived in Weehawken , New Jersey and had a daughter and two sons.

Awards

literature

  • Nils Strandell: Catalog over Hans Lagerlöfs Frimärksdonationer till Postmuseum. 8 volumes, Swedish Postal Museum, Stockholm 1924–1951.
  • Lagerlöf, Hans. In: Gunnar Prawitz (Ed.): Vem är vem inom handel och industri? 1944–45 Jonson & Winter, Stockholm 1944, p. 293 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Lagerloef, Major General Hans. In: Encyclopedia of American biography: New series. Volume 18, American Historical Society 1945, p. (With portrait), pp. 315-319 ( hathitrust.org ).
  • Erik Rydman: 6. Lagerlöf, Hans. In: Svenskahaben och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok. Volume 4: I – Lindner. Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1948, p. 433 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • The Col. Hans Lagerloef Collections of Stamps and Postal History of Europe, Asia and Africa, Specialized Auction Catalog. HR Harmer, Inc., Nov. 11-15. May 1953 (2 volumes).
  • Erik Hamberg: Storsamlaren Hans Lagerlöf. Meddelanden Från Postal Museum No. 40, Stockholm 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Erik Rydman: 6. Lagerlöf, Hans. In: Svenskahaben och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok. Volume 4: I – Lindner. Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1948, p. 433 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Hans Lagerloef, philately leader. In: The New York Times . May 13, 1952, p. 23 digitized , sometimes Weehawken is given as the place of death in the literature .
  3. ↑ For the family, see Lagerlöf, Lagerloef, Lagerlööf, släkter. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
  4. ^ L .: Lenz, Clara . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 63 .
  5. ^ The World's Paper Trade Review. 68, 1918, p. 640; it is said to have been “ 117 pairs of rubber gloves and about 10 gross of babies' comforters ”.
  6. ↑ The debate in the House of Commons was related to the sale of the British shares in the Swedish Kellner-Partington Paper Pulp Co. Ltd. ; The Parliamentary Debates (official report) .: House of Commons. December 3, 1917, col. 12 ( books.google.com ).
  7. ↑ Nos. IV and IX, see Blue Mauritius Research Companion , accessed on July 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ Portrait, fig. In uniform with awards in the Maritime Museum in Stockholm.
  9. ^ The Swedish American Trade Journal. 16, 1922, p. 362.
personal data
SURNAME Lagerlöf, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagerlöf, Benjamin Hans (full name); Lagerloef, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish entrepreneur and philatelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Tåby, Norrköping , Östergötland County
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1952
Place of death New York City