Kviberg Cemetery, Gothenburg, Sweden, Part II

See part I for an introduction to the Kviberg Cemetery.

Commonwealth section.

Latvian section.

Children's graves section.

See also part I.

Kviberg Cemetery, Gothenburg, Sweden, Part I

Section 3. Grave of Queen Sonja's former brother-in-law Rune V. Swanström (1917-1967) and his mother Nanny, née von Gegerfelt (1890-1953). See my blog article From von Gegerfelt to Shetelig, of 30 September 2010, for more details.



Section 2A. Grave of Harald Bernhard Bengtsson (1893-1966), nicknamed "Bildsköne Bengtsson", the infamous master burglar. See Bildsköne Bengtssons Minnesförening (Bildsköne Bengtsson's Memorial Associaton) for more details (in Swedish). "Bildskön" is not too easy to translate - "photogenic", perhaps?


Section 53B. Grave of Erik Bertil Swanström (1916-2003), who I believe was related to the above-mentioned Rune Valdemar Swanström.

Section 26. The Segerstedt Family grave, which includes the last resting place of Torgny Segerstedt (1876-1945), publicist and editor-in-chief of Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, known for his uncompromising anti-Nazi stance and thus a good friend of Norway - he was also married to a Norwegian woman, Augusta Wilhelmina Synnestvedt (see the Norwegian Genealogical Society's periodical Genealogen No. 1/2011, pp. 12-26 for an article about the Synnestvedt family).

The German War Graves section.

Casualties from the submarine U 843.

Two unknown German soldiers.

According to the website of Kyrkogårdsförvaltningen i Göteborg (the Gothenburg Cemeteries Administration), Kvibergs kyrkogård (Kviberg cemetery) is the largest cemetery in Sweden and also the second largest in Northern Europe. I wonder which cemetery tops the list then. Ohlsdorf in Hamburg perhaps?

Anyway, Kviberg cemetery was consecrated in 1935 and is measured to 130 hectares (about 320 acres). The cemetery has 24 167 graves, but I am not sure when the website was last updated. In the early 20th century Gotenburg's first airport was situated where the cemetery is now.

The cemetery has among others two sections of war graves from bnoth WW1 and WW2. One is administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the other by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräbefürsorge. The former contains 68 burials of WW1, many of them naval casualties from the Battle of Jutland in 1916, as well as 46 from WW2, most of them airmen who failed to return from bombing raids over Germany or German occupied territories.

The German war graves section includes 96 casualties from WW1 and 281 from WW2, including victims from the submarine U 843, which was sunk in April 1945. See also my blog article Fjällbacka Church and Cemetery, Tanum, Sweden, of 11 July 2010.

In addition there are sections for among others persons of (former) Latvian nationality as well as Swedish seamen.

Kviberg Cemetery is located at Kortedalavägen (near the junction of Regementsgatan) in Gamlestaden in Gothenburg, and can easily be reached by tram from downtown. See the map provided by Eniro.

The photos were all taken in August 2008.

From von Gegerfelt to Shetelig

Gry Sofie Shetelig, a grand niece of Queen Sonja of Norway, was married to Joakim Jensen Fuglerud at Frogner kirke (church), Oslo, last Saturday, 25 September 2010. Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Märtha Louise attended the ceremony.

The bride was escorted to the altar by her brother, Kaare Andreas Shetelig, who works as a lawyer at Riksadvokaten (the Office of Public Prosecutions). Kaare's son Harald Fredrik was a page boy, while the bride's first cousin Dagny Carina Swanström read the scriptures. Vicar Paul Nome conducted the service.

Gry Shetelig, b. 1980, is the granddaughter of the late Gry Henriksen, née Haraldsen (1924-1970), an elder sister of Queen Sonja. The Queen's sister was first married to the Swedish-born engineer Rune V. Swanström (1917-1967) and had two children by him - Ian, who is Gry Shetelig's mother, and Dag Swanstrøm. After the divorce from Rune V. Swanström, Gry got married to Gunnar Henriksen (1922-2002). They also had two children together.

Interestingly enough, the bride doesn't only have a royal connection as described above, but is also a cognatic descendant of the Swedish noble family von Gegerfelt (Adliga ätten/Noble family no. 861):

• Axel von Gegerfelt (1839-1913), m2. Augusta Josefina Larsson (1862-1926)
• Nanny von Gegerfelt (b. 30 October 1890, d. 6 September 1953), m. 10 December 1914 Ernst Eric Valdemar Swanström (b. 31 December 1884, d. 2 December 1959)
• Rune Valdemar Swanström (b. 20 November 1917, d. 20 May 1967), m. Ris kirke (church), Oslo 11 October 1946 (div. 195...) Gry Haraldsen (b. 16 january 1924, d. 21 April 1970)
• Ian Sissel Swanstrøm (b. 1947), m. 1973 Harald Fredrik Shetelig (b. 13 September 1942, d. 25 November 1981)
• Kaare Andreas Shetelig (b. 1976), m. 2006 Marte Brunvoll (b. 1978); and Gry Sofie Shetelig (b. 1980), m. 2010 Joakim Jensen Fuglerud (b. 1981).
  

The Swanström family grave at Kvibergs kyrkogård, grave no. 003-00036. The photo was taken during a visit to the cemetery in August 2008.

Gry Shetelig's grandfather Rune Valdemar Swanström is interred at Kvibergs kyrkogård (cemetery) in Gothenburg. Interred in the same grave is also his mother Nanny, while his father Eric Swanström seems to have been buried somewhere else, as although the inscription at the front says "Eric Swanström Familjegrav", his previously inscribed name above the name of his first wife has been deleted. He married for the second time in 1954 Dagmar Elinora Stedfeldt (1901-1976), who is interred at Västra kyrkogården, Gothenburg.

Sources and references

• Sveriges Ridderskaps och Adels Kalender, 1923, 1953
• Private information
• Kyrkogårdsförvaltningen i Göteborg
• My own research on the Haraldsen and Ulrichsen families
• Släkten Stede/Städe och Stedfeldt
• Riddarhuset.se (The Swedish House of Nobility)

Updated on Friday 1 October 2010 at 0805 (typo corrected); 11 May 2011 (photo replaced by an identical photo, with different document name).