Kreuger family [SEP] country of origin
Kreuger family
The Kreuger family in Sweden originated from "Johan Kröger" (died 1739) from Germany, who immigrated to Kalmar in 1710. He started a bakery in Kalmar in 1710 and married "Helena Schultz".
Johan Kröger.
Johan Kröger married "Helena Schultz" in 1710. However she died the same year. His second wife (name unknown) had at least three sons that changed the spelling of the last name from Kröger to "Kreuger" but with the same pronunciation ("eu"
was interred in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
Murder allegations.
While his family believed Ivar Kreuger to have been murdered, it was only more than 30 years after Ivar Kreuger's death that many previously classified Kreuger & Toll documents and Ivar Kreuger documents were made public. Based on these and his insight in his brother's business and life, Ivar's brother Torsten Kreuger wrote a book in 1963 (2nd edition) called "Kreuger & Toll", describing how Kreuger & Toll had been taken over, and how then