Carl Elsener Sr. Carl Elsener Sr. Carl Elsener Sr. (also known as Charles Elsener, born 6 July 1922 in Ibach, † 1 June 2013 in Schwyz) was a Swiss entrepreneur. Carl Elsener was the grandson of Karl Elsener (1860-1918) and the son of Carl Elsener (1886-1950). Karl Elsener had opened a factory in Ibach for the production of knives and surgical instruments, from which the knife factory Victorinox developed. Carl Elsener led the company initially with his father and his brother Eduard Elsener (b. 1926). After the death of his father in 1950, he took over the management. The Swiss Army Knife is
Karl Söderman in Russia suggested that Finland shall be treated as foreign country in tariff policy which would mean high toll fees for Finnish products. Finnish engineering companies became concerned and wrote a common letter which Karl Söderman and John Eager, manager of W:m Crichton & C:o delivered together to Vladimir Kovalevsky in Ministry of Finance. Although the meeting was not successful, the Russian government cancelled the plans of extra tariffs at the end of the year. The average annual GVA was under one million marks in period 1892–1894, but in period 1904–1908 it was quadrupled. The top year was in 1905,