Ejlif Egon Richard Søndergaard Krogager (5 February 1910 – 7 January 1992) was a

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and

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, who founded Nordisk Bustrafik in 1951. During the

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he was active in the Danish resistance movement. After the war he entered the

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business by founding Nordisk Bustrafik in 1951, offering affordable bus trips for Danish tourists. The business developed into Tjæreborg Rejser, which started a

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subsidiary in 1973, becoming the fourth largest

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in that country within 3 years. In 1962 he and Jørgen Størling founded Sterling Airways, which offered

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from Billund. In 1968 Sterling Airways was bought out of Tjæreborg Group. Tjæreborg Rejser was sold to Janni Spies, owner of another Danish travel agency, on 3 January 1989. The German subsidiary had already been sold eight years before.

External links

Ejlif's tombstone at gravsted.dk
1910 births 1992 deaths 20th-century Danish businesspeople {{Denmark-business-bio-stub