Gustaf Douglas

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Gustaf Douglas
Born
Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas

(1938-03-03)3 March 1938
Stockholm, Sweden
Died3 May 2023(2023-05-03) (aged 85)
Spouse
Elisabeth von Essen
​
(m. 1963)​
Children2

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (3 March 1938 – 3 May 2023) was a Swedish aristocrat, billionaire businessman, and politician. In August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$7.2 billion.[1] In 2007 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.[2]

Biography

Early life and background

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas was the oldest son of Carl Ludvig

Franz, Duke of Bavaria) and had five daughter including Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein. The younger sister is Rosita Douglas (b. 1943), who was the 11th Duke of Marlborough
's third wife and mother his three youngest children, though the eldest died as an infant.

His

Riddarhuset under number 19 among families of comital
status. Gustaf Douglas later served on the board of Riddarhuset.

His maternal great-grandfather was Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921), a friend of Wilhelm II, whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes Gräfin zu Eulenburg (1886–1967) married in 1909 (divorced 1921) Professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879–1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Gustaf descended through both his mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers.

Career

After an MBA from

wealthiest person in Sweden, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth
of around US$3.2 billion as of March 2013.

In 2001 Douglas was elected to the board of the

Liberal People's Party. He was later known as a rather Conservative Moderate with a big interest in education policy
.

Philately

The Treskilling Yellow stamp

In May 2013, Douglas acquired the only known example of the 1855 Treskilling Yellow postage stamp, the rarest in the world with only one example known, in a private sale.[4]

Douglas a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London (FRPSL) and in 2018 was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.[5][6]

Personal life and death

In 1963, he married Elisabeth

Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria and their daughter Sophie is the current Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
.

Gustaf Douglas died on 3 May 2023, at the age of 85.[8]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ "Forbes profile: Gustaf Douglas". Forbes. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  2. ^ Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences: Douglas, Gustaf, Retrieved 25 September 2010
  3. ^ The descent is unquestionably legitimate from one Patrick Douglas, of Standingstone, who married Cairistiona Leslie, and whose son Robert Douglas (1611-1662) emigrated to Sweden and became the first Swedish count Douglas
  4. ^ Lee, Julia (1 November 2013). "Treskilling Yellow is back in the hands of a philatelist". Stamp Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 November 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  5. ^ "The New RDPs signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in Newcastle upon Tyne", The London Philatelist, Vol. 127, No. 1458 (September 2018), pp. 352-353.
  6. ^ Ganz, Abensur, Douglas, Lewis to sign roll in July. Linn's Stamp News, 3 April 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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  8. ^ "Latour's founder Gustaf Douglas has passed away". Market Screener. 3 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.

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