Emil Schybergson

Ernst Emil Schybergson (6 January 1856 – 7 March 1920) was a Finnish jurist, bank director and politician, born in Turku. He was a member of the Diet of Finland from 1885 to 1906 and a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907–to 1919, representing the Swedish People's Party of Finland (SFP). Schybergson committed suicide in 1920 after the bank he was leading got into financial difficulties he was unable to solve.

Biography Schybergson's parents were Arvid Magnus Schybergson och Amanda Avellan. His brothers, the lawyer and the historian , were also well known. He graduated with a Master of Arts in 1877 and became a Varatuomari in 1887. He worked at the Bank of Finland from 1877 to 1890, as an attorney general (Finnish: Oikeusneuvosmies) from 1890 to 1896 and acted as chairman of Jockis Gods Ab and director of Helsingin Kansanpankki from 1893. In 1896, with the help of Knut Agathon Wallenberg, he transformed Helsingin Kansanpankki into a new company, Privatbanken i Helsingfors (later fused with Yhdyspankki). In 1906 he was appointed chairman and CEO of Suomen Hypoteekkiyhdistys. He was a prolific writer on economic and social topics and founded two short-lived newspapers, Tidning för Finlands handel och industri in the 1880s and Aftonposten in the 1890s.

Schybergson committed suicide in 1920 after large foreign loans taken out during and after the First World War, combined with the sharp fall in the value of markka, created an unsustainable situation for Suomen Hypoteekkiyhdistys.

Schybergson married Hildegard Anna Vilhelmina Antell in 1886.