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10 unusual facts about Vaxholm


Carl-Gustav Hellstrandt

He won a gold medal in the K-2 10000 m folding event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm.

Emerentia Krakow

Her husband was promoted to governor of Vaxholm in 1612, and when he was retired in 1613, it was pointed out, that he was given his pension in recognition of his and his wives bravery in their defence of the country.

Johan Alfred Ander

Ander was subsequently arrested during nighttime near Vaxholm, in his father's house, after some inquiries to workers on the archipelago ferries, who recognized Ander and remembered where he went.

Born in Ljusterö, Ander performed his military service duties from 1893 to 1894 at the Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm.

Kamill Balatoni

He won a silver medal in the K-1 10000 m folding event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm.

Karl Widmark

He won two gold medals at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm, earning them in the K-1 1000 m and K-1 10000 m events.

Kurt Boo

He won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm.

Maggie Kalka

She won a gold medal in the K-1 600 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm.

Otto Neumüller

He won a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm, Sweden.

Walther Eidlitz

Walther Eidlitz, born 1892 in Vienna, dead 1976 in Vaxholm, also called Vāmana Dāsa, was an Austrian writer, poet, Indologist and historian of religion.


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Carl Axel Arrhenius

Arrhenius was a lieutenant at the Svea artilleriregemente stationed in Vaxholm; he took part in the campaign in Finland in 1788.

Carl E. Wallin

He was a non-commissioned officer in Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago at The Royal Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm (Sweden), (KA1), in the Swedish Coastal Artillery, which was just formed in 1902, at 21–23 years of age (1900–1902).