Hello researcher! A quick chat with Gunnar Wetterberg

Author and historian Gunnar Wetterberg is currently spending time in the archives at the Centre for Business History to conduct research for a publication about the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019.

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Sara Johansson

10 Sep. 2018

Gunnar Wetterberg in the research hall of the Centre for Business History. Photographer: Sara Johansson.

What are you looking for?
− I'm looking for information about Axel F Enström who founded IVA and became its first CEO in 1919.

What have you found?
− Enström was quite typical of that generation of successful engineers. I have found a lot of interesting material, including other people's descriptions of him and Enström's own papers where he writes about private matters such as his alcohol ration.

How will you use the material?
− The idea is to create a 50–60 page commemorative publication to be presented on October 24 next year.

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