Ludvig Nobel

Entrepreneur

Ludvig Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on July 27th, 1831 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 56, Ludvig Nobel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 27, 1831
Nationality
Sweden
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Sweden
Death Date
Apr 12, 1888 (age 56)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Industrialist, Philanthropist
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Immanuel Nobel, Andriette Nobel
Siblings
Alfred Nobel, Emil Oskar Nobel, Robert Nobel
Ludvig Nobel Life

Ludvig Immanuel Nobel (27 July 1831, Stockholm) was a Swedish-Russian engineer, a well-known businessman, and a humanitarian.

He was the uncle of Immanuel Nobel (also an engineering scholar) and Andriette Nobel Laurel, as well as Alfred Nobel Laureate (founder of the Nobel Prize).

Branobel, an oil company in Baku, Azerbaijan, which at one time produced half of the world's oil, was operated by his brother Robert.

He is credited with the establishment of the Russian oil industry.

Ludvig Nobel had the most fortune of any of the Nobel winners, and he was one of the world's richest men.

The communists confiscated Nobel family fortune in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution.

Early history

Nobel Laureate in Stockholm was born in Stockholm. Fonderies et Ateliers Mécaniques Nobel Fils, a company that manufactures war machinery such as mines and steam engines, was given by his father's financiers the scientific oversight of the family company. Since the completion of the Crimean War in 1856 due to a significant reduction in the military budget ordered by the new Tsar Alexander II, the company had been suffering financial difficulties, and eventually, Immanuel's company was sold by his creditors in 1862.

Ludvig founded the Machine-Building Factory Ludvig Nobel with some funds he had managed to save. The plant that made chilled cast-iron shells in a few years became Russia's top gun carriage manufacturers.

Early success in Russia

Ludvig was running the St. Petersburg factory and obtained a large contract to produce rifles for the Russian government, but he needed wood for the rifle stocks. In 1873, he sent his oldest brother, Robert Nobel, to buy Russian walnut wood in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Robert spent the 25,000 rubbles that Ludvig contracted to him for wood (walnut money) instead of buying a small refinery in Baku without consulting his brother. Ludvig also invested in modernization and refinery efficiency. The Nobel brothers established themselves as Baku's most dependable refiner, exporting the first batch of illuminating oil to St. Petersburg by 1876. Ludvig converted the initial business into a shareholding firm, Branobel, in which he was the major shareholder and had as co-partners Robert and Alfred Nobel.

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