Assar Gabrielsson

Assar Thorvald Nathanael Gabrielsson (13 August 1891 – 28 May 1962) was a Swedish industrialist and co-founder of Volvo.

Early life Gabrielsson was born on 13 August 1891 in Korsberga, Skaraborg County, Sweden, the son of Gabriel Nathanael Gabrielsson and Anna Helmina Larsson, who married on 14 April 1889. The father was a manager at Korsberga brickworks and later became a leaseholder of Spännefalla farm near the dairy in Tibro, where he started an egg shop. Assar Gabrielsson was the first child of three. He had a brother five years younger, Börje Gabrielsson, who in parallel with Assar was the managing director of Astra for thirty years. He passed studentexamen in 1909 and graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 1911. née Andreasson (1889–1964) in Skövde, the daughter of lineman Johan Peter Andreasson (1849–) and his first wife Augusta Mathilda Nyberg (1862–). The Gabrielsson couple lived for many years at Kungsportsavenyen 34 in Gothenburg. and had four children: Lars, Barbro, Jan and Bo.

Gabrielsson is interred at Kvastekulla griftegård in Partille.

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Clarence von Rosen Medal (1942) Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences de Laval medal (1929)

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (1956) Honorary doctorate in economics at Stockholm School of Economics (1959) Honorary member of the Swedish MTM association (1960)