Word: enskilda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Marcus Wallenberg, 82, head of the most powerful banking and industrial dynasty in Sweden and co-founder in 1972 of the Skandinaviska Enskilda Bank, now the most influential commercial bank in Sweden; of a viral infection; in Djurgården, Sweden. Part of the third generation of Wallenberg bankers who have been synonymous with Swedish business for more than a century, Marcus and his brother Jacob (who died two years ago) rebuilt Sweden's industrial strength after the Kreuger crash in 1932. Eventually taking control of such multinational giants as Electrolux, L.M. Ericsson and Saab-Scania, Wallenberg also...