Henrik Kreüger (1882–1953) was born in

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, Sweden, and obtained his

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in civil engineering in 1904 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After graduating, he worked for the construction company Fritz Söderbergh in Stockholm until 1908, when he went back to the university to work as an employed teacher at the faculty for civil engineering. In parallel he also worked as a consulting engineer for the construction company

Kreuger & Toll Kreuger & Toll was a company founded on May 18, 1908 by two Swedish engineers, Ivar Kreuger and Paul Toll, with Henrik Kreüger working as a consultant and chief engineer. History Early 1908, Ivar and his cousin Henrik Kreüger planned to estab ...

that started their business in 1908, a couple of months after

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had returned from America. Henrik Kreüger and Ivar Kreuger formed an affiliate to the US company

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in Sweden early 1908, but later Ivar decided to form his own construction company to become independent of the US company. However, Ivar preferred to form this new company (Kreuger & Toll) together with engineer

Paul Toll Paul Sequens Esaias Toll (September 7, 1882 in Småland – July 3, 1946) was a Swedish construction engineer and co-founder, together with Ivar Kreuger, of the construction company Kreuger & Toll. Paul Toll was born in the parish of Berga in K ...

that had several years of practical experience in the construction business. Henrik Kreüger then came to work as a

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responsible for the basic design work and calculations. The three partners Ivar, Paul and Henrik, won several prestigious contracts such as the construction of the

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(1911–12), the foundation work for the new

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(1912–13) and the department store NK (1913–14) in Stockholm. Kreüger made important contributions in the area of ventilation and insulation at the faculty of civil engineering, where he was a professor from 1914 to 1943. Kreüger served as Rector of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1931 to 1943. Henrik Kreüger was a first cousin of

.Some part of the Kreuger family spells the last name with a German ü, some with Swedish u. The family origin was Johan Kröger from Germany that arrived in Kalmar 1710. His parents were Oscar Lorentz Kreuger (born 1848), married in 1874 to Ebba Sparre af Söfdeborg (born 1855). Oscar Lorentz Kreuger was a brother to Ernst August Kreuger, the father to Ivar Kreuger.

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*"Kreüger, Henrik", ''

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(requires subscription). Retrieved December 27, 2007. *"Henrik Kreüger", '' Nordisk familjebok'', Volume 36 (Supplement, Globe - Kövess), 1924, column 120

*Toll, Magnus: ''Paul Toll 1882-1946, ingeniör-entreprenör''. 1996. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kreuger, Henrik 1882 births 1953 deaths People from Kalmar KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Rectors of KTH Royal Institute of Technology 20th-century Swedish engineers

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