Ludwig Fredholm

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Ludvig Fredholm (1830-1891)

Ludvig Oscar Fredholm (born September 17, 1830 in Stockholm , † December 17, 1891 ibid) was a Swedish industrialist and businessman.

The son of the shipowner Per Adolf Fredholm and the Englishwoman Mary Bairnes Burgman studied in Rostock and served for many years as an accountant in the family shipyard and sailing fleet. On May 2, 1861, he married the daughter of a wealthy trader, Catharina Paulina Stenberg in Arboga , with whom he had the sons Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927) and John Oscar Fredholm (1875-1926). After the shipyard was sold in 1863, he joined the Stockholm trading and banking house Guillemot & Weylandt , which fell victim to the financial crisis in 1878.

In 1880 he took a trip to London , where he learned about electric street lighting , and began to be interested in electricity . For the wedding of King Gustav V on September 16, 1881, he demonstrated Sweden's first street lighting of 16 Brush - arc lamps , powered by a steam engine. A little later he used Swan bulbs for street lighting. He had hired the civil engineer Georg (Göran) Wenström. In 1882 they had another demonstration at the fair in Örebro . Here they met Georg's brother Jonas Wenström , who had designed a direct current generator for which he received a patent in 1882. Since this turned out to be better than the one that Fredholm had imported from England, Fredholm acquired the patent in 1882 and founded the company Elektriska Aktiebolaget (Elektrik AB) with Jonas as a technical advisor on January 17, 1883 in Stockholm . Production, with Göran as chief engineer and workshop manager, was relocated to Arboga, while Jonas continued his construction work in Örebro, where he made significant improvements to his dynamo in 1887. In 1890 the company merged with Göran Wenström's company to form ASEA , in which his son John later became chairman of the board. By his death in 1891, the number of employees had increased from seven to 69 and the number of machines delivered from 16 to 65.

literature

  • Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 16: Fredholm Ostgötsk släkt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janeur&id=I151871
  2. ↑ http://www.foretagsamheten.se/Svenska-foretag/Foretag/Asea/
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personal data
SURNAME Fredholm, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fredholm, Ludvig Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish industrialist and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1891
Place of death Stockholm