Henrik Kreüger

Who was Henrik Kreüger?

Henrik Kreüger was born in Kalmar, Sweden and obtained his M.Sc. 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 that started their business in 1908, a couple of months after Ivar Kreuger had returned from America. Henrik Kreüger and Ivar Kreuger formed an affiliate to the US company Trussed Concrete Steel Company 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 together with engineer Paul Toll that had several years of practical experience in the construction business. Henrik Kreüger then came to work as a consulting engineer responsible for the basic design work and calculations.