Margareta Hybertsson

Margareta Hybertsson (d. 1630) was a Swedish businessperson and shipbuilder. She completed the building of the Vasa.

Margareta was first married to Henrik Hybertsson, who was engaged to build the Vasa in 1625. When she was widowed in 1627, she took over the share of her late spouse and the responsibility to complete the building of the Vasa a task she fulfilled the following year. She handled a strike and a period of inflation during her tenure. Aside from the Vasa, she was also (more successfully) involved in business as the owner of the Viby estate in Sollentuna. When the Vasa sunk in 1628, it was deemed to be wrongly constructed and she was bankrupted. She retired to the Viby estate and married the Swedish envoy to France, diplomat and nobleman Lars Nilsson Tungel.

References

Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013

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