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Swedish-Norwegian businessman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinrich Wilhelm Augustus Musculus (10 December 1868 – 10 December 1949) was a Swedish-Norwegian businessman.
Heinrich Wilhelm Augustus Musculus | |
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Born | Germany | December 10, 1868
Died | December 10, 1949 81) | (aged
Nationality | Swedish-Norwegian |
Occupation | businessman |
He was born in Germany,[1] but hailed from Scania, and took education as a cement technician and construction engineer.[2] He emigrated to Kristiania in Norway at the age of 22. After working one year in Slemmestad Fabrikker he started his own company in 1891.[3] Among others, his company Christiania Cementstøperi, H. Musculus constructed a drydocks for Akers Mekaniske Verksted and a grain silo at Vippetangen.[4] The company also traded in building tools, until 1923 when this business area was delegated to the company Christiania Cementstøperi, P. Paaske.[5] He also owned the company Korkindustri with a factory in Gamlebyen, but it burned down in 1934.[6]
Musculus co-founded the employers' association Entreprenørenes Landssammenslutning in 1910, and chaired it for the first ten years.[7] He was a central board member of the Norwegian Employers' Confederation, and a member of the executive committee in the Federation of Norwegian Industries.[3] He was also a board member of Norges Hypotekforening for Næringslivet.[8]
He resided in Bestum.[1] He donated stained glass windows to the transepts of Ullern Church,[9] and to various other ends.
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