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Ingvar Kamprad (* 30. March 1926 in Sweden) is the founder of the furniture company IKEA.

Life

Kamprad was born as a son ethnic Germans of a farmer family. It has three sons and a daughter. Its grandfather was German and the grandmother Sudeten German. It is related to Paul von Hindenburg.

1943 it created world-wide well-known enterprises Ikea at the age of 17 years that today. The acronym IKEA consists of the initials of its name, I.K., initial letter of the name of the parental farm, Elmtaryd, and initial letter of its homeland village, Agunnaryd. Originally it acted with many different goods. Only in the year 1948 it took up furniture to its assortment, in this year brought out it also its first catalog. Starting from 1952 it concentrated first completely on the furniture dispatch trade. The first IKEA business was opened 1958 in (South Sweden) and to be first foreign furniture house opened it 1963 in Oslo. Up-to-date IKEA operates 175 furniture houses in 44 countries with nearly approximately 90,000 persons employed and generated a conversion of 14,8 billion euro (2005).

For the 70's Kamprad in the Swiss Lausanne at the Geneva lake lives.

Kamprad was selected regularly to the most popular manager of Sweden. In addition, it is considered as a master in the motivation of its coworkers, is disputed. One accuses to him among other things to exercise to high pressure on the employees.

Kamprad astonished the public with its honestly working personal confessions that he had a pronounced reading and write weakness (Dyslexie) and an eternal fight against the alcohol leads.

Fortune

According to T-Online Ingvar Kamprad is richest humans of the world. With approximately 53 billion USD it is to have displaced 2006 by the Kursverlust of the dollar opposite the euro Bill Gates of the number one. Ikea as well as the Forbes of magazines deny this. Kamprad is not the owner of Ikea, however Kamprads fortune in an obscurely developed thing from Trusts and getting thing is distributed. Forbes estimates its fortune on 28 billion US Dollar. Thus it is at place 4. (Conditions: 2006)

Due to its origin from the region calls itself Kamprad themselves as Geizhals and an good deal hunter.

Affairs

1994 brought the Swedish newspapers to Ingvar Kamprad with Nazi groupings in connection. The media uncovered that it the right organization Nysvenska of by Engdahl, a friend and well-known Nazi, until 1945 had financially supported. Since 1942 Kamprad was also active member of this organization. It was called to the IKEA boycott. Kamprads grandmother was Nazi follower and its political forming of an opinion had probably affected. Kamprad apologized in a multilateral hand written open letter at its coworkers and the customers and calls the payments today "largest stupidity of my life".

Kamprad and IKEA today

A majority of the IKEA fortune is administered by a donation with seat in the Netherlands, whose supervisory board belongs to Kamprad.

On 11 February 2006 Ingvar Kamprad of the University of with which he feels connected since longer, became award HTTP: /www.vxu.se/ehv/news/se/2005-12-15T11-21-15_92_0.xml. 1983 were already lent to it of the University of Lund.