Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas, who died 3 May, 2023, aged 85, was a Swedish aristocrat, billionaire businessman, and politician. In August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$7.2 billion.
Gustaf Douglas descends in the male line from the Douglas Lords Dalkeith, from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Lord Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family.
He was the eldest son of Carl Ludvig Douglas (1908–1961), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was the Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (1910–2001).
His maternal great-grandfather was Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921), a friend of the Emperor Wilhelm II, whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes Gräfin zu Eulenburg (1886–1967) married 1909 (divorced 1921) Professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879–1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Gustaf descends through both his mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers.
In 1963, he married Elisabeth von Essen, the daughter of Baron Eric von Essen and Louise (née Tamm). Gustaf and Elisabeth Douglas had two children, Carl and Eric. Both serve at different positions within the family group of companies. The Douglas family lived at Rydboholm Castle outside Åkersberga. One of his younger sisters is Rosita, Duchess of Marlborough, the third wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough. Gustaf’s other sister, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria is married to Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria.
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