Bror Cederström
Gustaf Albrecht Bror Cederström was a Swedish baron and lieutenant general and Minister of War.Biography
Cederström was born at Fornsigtuna, Sweden and was the only child of lieutenant general and later president of the Council of War, baron Bror Cederström and his first wife Catharina Maria Voltemat. The father remarried in 1800 to the author Christina Mörner.
From 1816 to 1822, he headed the Cederströmian Hussar Regiment in Scania. During this time, he purchased the Säbyholm's lands outside Landskrona, where he actively worked to find new agricultural methods and established the first Swedish company for manufacturing beet sugar. In parallel with his business life he continued a military career, becoming supreme commander of Scania in 1819, then minister for war in 1840. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, the Order of the Seraphim and the Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
He married countess Christina Hilda Wachtmeister af Johannishus in 1815. They had two sons and two daughters.
Cederström was the stepson of Christina Charlotta Cederström.
