Wilhelmina Skogh
Lorentina Wilhelmina Skogh, born Wahlgren 14 december 1849 in Rute on Gotland, Sweden. Died 18 juni 1926.
Married 1888 to Per Samuel Skogh (Wine trader)(1849-1904.
She was an entreprenour in the hotel- and restaurant business in Sweden. She built her first hotel at the age of 27, the railroad hotel close to the railroad station in Storvik (outside Sandvik) and formed the company Wilhelmina Skogh AB. She continued to buy hotels and own several hotels along the railroad stations, mostly of in the middle of Sweden. She introduced a lot of new ideas in the hotel business, for instance more vegetables in order to cut down on the expensive meat and worked together with the travel agency Thomas Cook in London to be able to offer luxury accomodations combined with hunting and fishing in Sweden.
Wihlemina became Managing director for Grand Hôtel in Stockholm in 1902 (left 1910). Her most famous project was to build the Grand Hôtel Royal in the form of an "annex" to the original hotel building. The idéa behind Royal she got from her first trip to Paris. Grand Hôtel Royal was earlier used for the Nobel price dinner in dec. each year.