One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland while at the same time tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with such would be peace-makers like the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig.

* 1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman ( b. 1950 )

* 1978 – Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman, co-founded Flattr and The Pirate Bay

** Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman

* Gustaf Douglas ( born 1938 ), Swedish businessman, vice chairman and largest single shareholder in security firm Securitas AB

The Mannerheim family descends from a German businessman and mill owner from Hamburg, Hinrich Marhein ( 1618 – 1667 ), who emigrated to Gävle in Sweden and adopted the Swedish spelling of his first name, Henrik.

Lars Johan Hierta ( 22 January 1801, Uppsala – 20 November 1872 ) was a Swedish newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician.

) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian.

Harris married Swedish businessman Anders Sven Axel Ebbeson ( born March 16, 1945 ) in 1996 and has one stepdaughter, Louise.

Swedish businessman Sven Hagströmer, one of the two men who gave his name to the Hagströmer & Qviberg group of companies, served on the board of the party.

Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin ( July 2, 1892 – September 7, 1983 ) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.

Subsequently, he collaborated with Swedish businessman Holger Crafoord to found one of the key companies that would manufacture dialysis equipment in the past 50 years, Gambro.

Frans Suell ( 9 June 1744 – 5 November 1818 ) was a Swedish businessman.

Hans Rausing, KBE, ( born 25 March 1926 ) is a Swedish businessman based in the United Kingdom.

Jacob Letterstedt ( 1796 – 1862 ), born Lallerstedt in Östergötland, was a Swedish businessman who settled in South Africa ( Cape Colony ).

The other source was news reports about the suicide of Ivar Kreuger, a Swedish businessman known as the " Match King " because of monopolies on match production he had negotiated with various governments.

Leif Johansson, born in 1951, is a Swedish businessman.

The central conflict in this film is whether African-American businessman Ernie Jones ( played by Frederick O ' Neal ) raped Swedish immigrant and civil rights Freedom Rider Greta Mae Hansen ( played by Annalena Lund ).

* Birger Dahlerus, Swedish businessman and amateur diplomat

Fredrik Lundberg ( born August 5, 1951 ) is a Swedish businessman.

Count Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas ( born 3 March 1938 ) is a Swedish businessman and politician, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007.

According to one, the big Swedish and German boys of Hutto were playing their smaller foes in football, and the visiting coach exclaimed “ We can ’ t beat those boys, they ’ re big as hippos !” Another story, also based on gridiron lore, is that the Hutto football team in the early twenties had no real jerseys and used feed sacks as their uniforms.

The complex functions as a cultural center, hosting concerts, visiting Swedish scholars, and the local Swedish consulate.

Each daughter is courted by an impassioned suitor visiting Jutland – Martine by a charming young Swedish cavalry officer, Lorens Löwenhielm, sent to stay with his aunt in Jutland for the summer to correct bad behavior.

He lives in a suburb with his single mother who sends him to a traditional Swedish summer camp ( common at the time of the setting and managed by the cities for children in need of visiting the countryside.

Sigvatr was visiting the Norwegian king Olaf and was sent on a delegation to the Swedish king Olaf.

A typical episode features Filip and Fredrik visiting a celebrity at home in Los Angeles, asking them personal questions while taking a tour of their house, singing a song for them ( often a Swedish song which has been translated into English ), an outing to one of the star's favorite places to eat and a series of elaborate would-you-rather questions.

* March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

Lewenhaupt was to bring a fresh supply of ammunition and food to support the Swedish army in a proposed march on the Russian capital of Moscow.

Arrangements had therefore been made for him to go to Moscow to discuss a number of contentious bilateral issues, including alleged Soviet submarine incursions into Swedish waters ( see U 137 ).

A 1973 bid for tender for a civilian air traffic control system at the airports in Moscow, Kiev, and Mineralnye Vody was won by Swedish supplier Stansaab.

Charles ' subsequent march on Moscow ended with the dismemberment of the Swedish army at Poltava and Perevolochna, and he spent the following years in exile in the Ottoman Empire before returning to lead an assault on Norway, trying to evict the Danish king from the war once more in order to aim all his forces at the Russians.

After securing his " favorite " victory in the Battle of Holowczyn, despite being outnumbered over one to three against the new Russian army, Charles opted to march eastwards on Moscow rather than try to seize Saint Petersburg, founded from the Swedish town of Nyenskans five years earlier.

Moscow forces with the help of the Cossack starshina Galagan, who disclosed Mazepa's intentions, conducted a pre-emptive strike and destroyed the Sich, thus denying any possible reinforcements to Swedish troops.

* Due to his campaign in 1610, the fighting unit consisting of Swedish and Finnish soldiers remain the only ones that have occupied Moscow as victors.

Born in Riga to Vasili Peterson, a Swedish bank director and Alejandra Labunskaia, a Russian noblewoman, Eugenie attended drama school in Moscow as a girl and escaped to Berlin with her mother as Bolsheviks came to power in 1917.

Kim Källström (; born 24 August 1982 in Sandviken ) is a left-footed Swedish midfielder playing for the Swedish national team and FC Spartak Moscow.

The club's first participation in the European club tournaments was also promising, with Litex eliminating the Swedish Halmstads BK ( 2: 0 and 1: 2 ) and reaching the second qualifying round ( but being knocked out by Russian powerhouse Spartak Moscow ).

From 1940 to 1943 he served at the Swedish mission to the Soviet Union, first in Moscow and then in Kuybyshev.

After the Swedish government refused to hold a public award ceremony and lecture at its Moscow embassy, Solzhenitsyn refused the award altogether, commenting that the conditions set by the Swedes ( who preferred a private ceremony ) were " an insult to the Nobel Prize itself.

During the Great Northern War, Swedish king Charles XII set off to invade Moscow, but was eventually defeated at the battle of Poltava after being weakened by cold weather and scorched earth tactics.

As a professional, he has played for the Manchester Monarchs and Fredericton Canadiens of the American Hockey League, Long Beach Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League, HPK and Jokerit of the Finnish Hockey League, HC Dynamo Moscow of the Russian hockey league, the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League, and most recently Timrå IK, Rögle BK of the Swedish Elitserien league.

Steen continued to play for the Swedish national team in World Championship games throughout his NHL career, and won silver medals at the 1981 World Championship in Gothenburg and the 1986 World Championship in Moscow.

He started the tradition of Lithuanian mercenary service north of Novgorod on the Swedish border that lasted until Novgorod's fall to Moscow in 1477.

In Moscow, Brava has played for Ferrari and Maserati, and for the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships in Prague, Brava recorded Tre Kronor ( Slå Oss Om Ni Kan ), the official song for the Swedish National Ice Hockey Team.

But in the summer of 1921, Zeth Höglund, together with Fredrik Ström and Hinke Bergegren, represented Sweden in the third congress of the Comintern held in Moscow, and Höglund worked hard to make the Swedish party accept the Twenty-one Conditions for membership in the Communist International, including changing the name from Sweden ’ s Social Democratic Left Party to the Swedish Communist Party.

However, in 1924, over disagreement concerning the development of Comintern policies, thinking there was too much direct control from Moscow, Höglund split from Swedish Communist Party and founded his own Communist Party.