Gustaf Svanberg the Younger

1839-1909.

Lawyer, politician.

Gustaf Svanberg was born in Uppsala in 1819, the son of Gustaf (the astronomer) and Fredrika Svanberg. Later in life he became mayor and active in municipal politics in Gothenburg. Svanberg was also elected as a member of the second chamber of the Riksdag.

The tombstone that adorns the Svanberg Burial site is one of the most eye-catching in the Old Cemetery. The allegorical female figure in bronze is called "Sorrow" and was made by sculptress Sigrid Blomberg. A similar sculpture adorns Carl Wijk's family grave at Östra Cemetery in Gothenburg.

 

Burial site: 0109-0461B

Image description: Portrait of Gustaf Svanberg, 1910 Photo: Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons. [The image is cropped]
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Carl Wolrath

1863-1926.

Ironmonger, entrepreneur.

Carl Wolrath was born in Eksjö. Later in life he moved to Uppsala and was employed at Öberg's hardware store at Svartbäcksgatan 16 (the store later moved to no. 21).

Wolrath married the merchant's daughter in 1894 and later took over the business in 1901. The shop was then named Wolrath & Co. In 1941, the firm moved a little closer to Stora Torget to Svartbäcksgatan 14.

AB Wolrath & Co, Svartbäcksgatan, Uppsala, August 1940. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.

AB Wolrath & Co's hardware store at Svartbäcksgatan 14, Uppsala, November 1941. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.

Wolrath was a member of the city council between 1905 and 1922, and was elected to the county council in 1919.

 

Burial site: 0138-1556

Image description: Carl Wolrath, Uppsala 1905. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped]
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Anders Strandberg

1862-1930.

Traders, entrepreneurs.

Anders Strandberg came to Uppsala at the age of 13 and started working as a messenger.

In 1885, Strandberg started a haberdashery shop at Stora Torget. The shop was later moved to the corner building (built in 1905) on Drottninggatan in the so-called Strandbergska huset. The building was the first in the city with an elevator, central heating and electricity. In the same year, Strandberg, who was socially and technically interested, promoted an electricity plant for the city.

Stora torget in Uppsala 1901-1902, view towards Kungsängsgatan. At the time of the photograph, the building housed Anders Strandberg's haberdashery. The corner plot was owned and developed by Olof Rudbeck the Elder. It housed a post office until 1715. The houses were demolished in 1934. Photo: Alfred Dahlgren / UUB.

Stora torget with the Strandbergska house (built in 1905) to the right, April 29, 1911. On this occasion, the Swedish Week was celebrated as a manifestation to promote Swedish industry. Photo: Unknown photographer / UUB.

Strandberg was a member of the city council from 1899 to 1930, an executive member of the county council from 1916 to 1928, and also a county councillor and member of the hospital board at Uppsala University Hospital. He was also a member of the Civic Elders.

 

Burial site: 0102-0123

Image description: Anders Strandberg, Uppsala, 1897. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUB.The image is cropped] Public domain
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Robert Fredrik von Kræmer

1791-1880.

County Governor, Member of Parliament.

Robert Fredrik von Kræmer came from Häme in Finland and took part as an officer in the campaign to Germany in 1813 and to Norway in 1814.

He was governor of Uppsala from 1830 to 1862 and, as head of the county, was an undisputed central figure and took a number of important initiatives. Communications were improved through road building, bridge building, dredging of sailing routes and the establishment of steamship companies.

Kræmer also initiated the founding of Ultuna Agricultural Institute and the establishment of Sweden's first cooperative trade in Örsundsbro in 1850.

Kræmer also played a significant role in the development of the city of Uppsala. The city park, the promenade at Flustret and Västgötaspången were created with his help and he was known for his tree plantings, which were mentioned in Gunnar Wennerberg's Gluntarne:

"My goodness, that Kræmer is good for the city. He builds bridges and plants trees."

 

Burial site: 0156-0249

Image description: Robert Fredrik von Kræmer, Stockholm, ca 1870. Photo: W.A Eurenius & P.L Quist / UUBThe image is cropped]
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Olof von Nackreij

1728-1783.

Judge Advocate General, County Governor.

Olof von Nackreij was born in Filipstad and became a student in Uppsala in 1743.

He was an advisor to the Göta Court of Appeal, governor of Halland and Kronoberg County, and became governor of Uppsala County in 1782. In 1778, Nackreij was elevated to the rank of baron and was one of the leaders of the Moderate Party.

The beginning of the baron's letter from 1778. Photo: UUB.

The coat of arms from the baron's letter. Photo: UUB.

Olof von Nackreij died unmarried at Uppsala Castle in 1783, thus concluding his baronial line. Nackreij had requested to be buried in the Poor Cemetery, as it was then called.

 

Burial site: 0112-0610A

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Tycho Hedén

1887-1962.

Politician, painter.

Tycho Hedén was a trained painter and also ombudsman in the Swedish Painters' Union 1942-1954.

Hedén was interested in politics at an early age and he was the manager of Folkets hus, chairman of Uppsala arbetarekommun, chairman of Uppsala läns socialdemokratiska partidistrikt 1920-1960, member of the city council 1919-1959 and member of the county council 1930-1962.

For several decades, Tycho Hedén was a leading politician in Uppsala and influential in the city's labor movement.

New residential areas were built in Uppsala during Hedén's time, which was led by the city architect Gunnar Leche.

 

Burial site: 0150-2047

Image description: Tycho Hedén, Uppsala 1954, photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped]
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Johan Fredrik Carlsson

1845-1922.

Master blacksmith.

Johan Fredrik Carlsson was born in Mådra skogstorp in Almunge and established himself as a blacksmith in the old former mill forge at Akademikvarnen in the center of Uppsala.

When the cathedral was restored in the 1880s, Carlsson made the locks for the church doors. As a contractor, he was hired by the city of Uppsala in 1910 when the gas, water and sewage pipes were to be laid in the streets (J. F. Carlsson's pipeline business).

Johan Fredrik Carlson was a member of the city council for 24 years, one of the principals of Uppsala Sparbank, a member of the board of the Gillbergska Children's House Foundation and of the Technical School, a member of the Civic Elders and the Gävle Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Uppsala Missionary Society.

 

Burial site: 0130-1305

Image description: Johan Fredrik Carlsson, possibly 1915 Photo: Unknown photographer / Swedish Portrait Archive (CC BY-SA 4.0The image is cropped]
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Rosalie Olivecrona

1823-1898.

Author, women's rights activist.

Rosalie Olivecrona was one of the pioneers of the Swedish women's movement. She made significant contributions as a social commentator and women's rights campaigner.

In 1857, Olivecrona published a number of articles in Aftonbladet under the heading 'En ropandes röst i öknen'. The articles defended Fredrika Bremer's novel Hertha, which was a contribution to the debate on the authority of unmarried women.

Together with Sophie Adlersparre, she founded the Tidskrift för hemmet (Journal for the Home ) in 1859, where she published a number of texts. Internationally, she held several positions in the growing female public sphere.

Olivecrona had the main responsibility for the exhibition on women's handicrafts at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and had similar assignments in Philadelphia, Paris and Chicago.

Rosalie Olivecrona's literary career began in the 1840s with poems and short stories in Göteborgs Handels- och sjöfartstidning under the pseudonym La Straniera. Her poetry collection Skogsblommor was published in 1855, and later in life she published the study Mary Carpenter och hennes verksamhet (1887) and Spridda blad (1889).

 

Burial site: 0104-0255

Image description: Rosalie Olivercrona, 1874. Photo: Bertha Valerius / Västergötland Museum. [The image is cropped]
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Eva Andén

1886-1970.

Lawyer.

After graduating from high school, Eva Andén began studying law at Uppsala University and graduated in 1912.

After graduating from law school, she traveled around the country lecturing on marriage, child welfare and poor relief laws. Andén also led courses in legal knowledge for rural women, organized by the National Association for Women's Political Suffrage (LKPR).

In 1915, Andén took over a law firm for female clients, Kvinnliga juristbyrån, and three years later she became the first woman to become a member of the Swedish Bar Association.

Andén specialized in family law and mainly assisted clients in connection with divorces, inheritance, alimony, custody issues and division of property in divorces. His clients included Selma Lagerlöf and Astrid Lindgren.

Eva Andén was also a member of a committee that served as the Swedish Bar Association's referral body for family law legislation, where she occasionally had great influence.

From 1950 to 1962 she was also President of the Society of Nine. Andén practiced law until her death in 1970.

 

Burial site: 0106-0343

Image description: Eva Andén, year unknown. Photo: Atelier Hedström, Uppsala / KvinnSam, Gothenburg University Library. [The image is cropped]
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Sven Anders Hägg

1817-1904.

Master shoemaker, politician, author.

Sven Anders Hägg started as an apprentice shoemaker at the age of 10 and received his journeyman's certificate in 1840. Between 1845-1848, Hägg lived in Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Paris, where he witnessed the February Revolution.

Hägg came to Uppsala in 1848 and became a master craftsman for cobbler Lindgren's widow at Östra Ågatan 45. Hägg took over the workshop in 1852 and became a citizen of Uppsala. In the same year he founded the Allmänna sjuk- och begravningshjälpen in connection with the Hantverksföreningen and was a member of the city council from 1862-1866.

Hägg was a devoted teetotaler but liked to go to the theater, which was said to be "his only pleasure". As an author, he published The History of Footwear, Market Trade in the Cities and Description of the Old Cemetery in Uppsala.

On his 67th birthday, Hägg was presented with the King's gold medal of the 5th magnitude for civic merit by County Governor Adolf Hamilton.

Hägg had his farm at Gräsgränden next to the current mouth of Bangårdsgatan at Fyrisån. In the book about Upsala cemetery he writes about his children: "Two children, a boy close to two years and a girl at the age of four, are buried here".

 

Burial site: 0156-0253

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