Hakon Leffler | |
Birth Date: | 11 March 1887 |
Birth Place: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Death Place: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Hakon Leffler (11 March 1887 – 31 July 1972) was a Swedish engineer, businessman and tennis player.[1]
He was the son of merchant Carl Leopold Leffler, studied electrical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1905 to 1908, and at Uppsala University where he graduated in 1910.[2] After having worked at the M.E. Delbanco company 1912–1915, he became the CEO of Svensk oljeslageri AB 1916. In 1929 he became the deputy CEO at Gamlestadens fabriker, a textile company in Gothenburg, and in 1935 its CEO.
Leffler competed in two individual tennis events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[3] [4]