Ingvar Kamprad

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Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture.

In 1942, he joined Per Engdahl's nationalist and to some degree pro-fascist (broad sense) New Swedish Movement. One year later he founded IKEA, with some corporatist influences. When he left the New Swedish Movement is unclear. He also had friendly relationship with Per Engdahl for some time. In 1994, when the personal letters of Per Engdahl were made public, he publicly distanced himself from the organization, stating that it was the "greatest mistake of my life". A later revealed 1943 Swedish Security Service file is stated to prove membership in the Swedish Socialist Gathering, earlier the National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden), but that had distanced itself from National Socialism.

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