Emanuel Nobel

Emanuel Nobel (1859-1932) was a Swedish-Russian oil baron, son of Ludvig Nobel, who was the oldest brother of Alfred Nobel.

After his father's death in 1888, Emanuel Nobel, took over the running of the family's oil empire, Branobel, which was based in Baku and was the largest oil company in Europe. He was in charge of the company until he was forced to flee in April 1920, when the Bolsheviks seized power in Baku, following the Russian Revolution.

Emanuel Nobel was a very forward-looking businessman, just like his father, who had instigated the construction of Russia's first pipeline and the world's first oil tanker in 1878, as well as the world's first railway tank cars in 1883. On 16 February 1898 Emanuel signed a licence agreement in Berlin with Rudolf Diesel, after having heard Diesel describing his new engine in a public lecture. The agreement allowed Nobel to build the world's first diesel engine plant in St Petersburg, and the engines were used to propel Branobel's fleet of oil tankers.

References

* Tolf, Robert (1976): "The Russian Rockefellers : the saga of the Nobel family and the Russian oil industry" Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University ISBN 0-8179-6581-5
* Åsbrink, Brita (2001): "Ludvig Nobel: "Petroleum har en lysande framtid!" Wahlström & Widstrand ISBN 978-91-46-18181-1

External links

* [http://biphost.spray.se/john.rosen/an7.htm Alfred Nobel, hans far och hans bröder - book by John Rosén]
* [http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai102_folder/102_articles/102_oil_chronology.html Azerbaijan's Oil History]
* [http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=2&node=11&doc_id=351303 Article in Kommersant in 2002]