Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas is a Swedish businessman and politician, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007.
Background
Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).
Education
After an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1964, he worked in Sweden and was Chief Executive Officer of the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Expressen between 1973 and 1980.
Career
After that he founded his company Investment Bachelor of Arts Latour in 1984, through which he now controls security firm Securitas Bachelor of Arts, the world-leading lock producer Assa Abloy and more. He is the eleventh wealthiest person in Sweden, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated Netto worth of around United States$3.2 billion as of March 2013. In 2001 Douglas was elected to the board of the Moderate Party.
He has a long history of political involvement, having campaigned in his teens for what was the predecessor of the Moderates.
Douglas was, however, for a time active within the Liberal People"s Party. Now he is known as a rather Conservative Moderate with a big interest in education policy.
His patriline is Scottish, of the Swedish-German branch, descended via two obscure generations, from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Lord Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family.
The Douglas family was introduced in the 17th century at Riddarhuset under number 19 among families of comital status.
Gustaf Douglas has later served on the board of Riddarhuset. Gustaf and Elisabeth Douglas have two children, Carl and Eric. Both serve at different positions within the family group of companies.
The Douglas family live at Rydboholm Castle outside Åkersberga.
Gustafs other sister, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria is married to Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria. In May 2013, Douglas acquired the only known example of the 1855 Treskilling Yellow postage stamp, one of the rarest in the world, in a private sale.