Swedish banker who served as the head of the Stockholm bank Nya Banken.
A leftist sympathizer, Olof Aschberg helped finance the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. In gratitude, the Bolsheviks allowed him to do business with the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Aschberg founded the first Swedih bank for trade unions and cooperatives, Nya Banken, in 1912. He also helped finance the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War.
Olof Aschberg – Wikipedia
"Aschberg Here from Sweden to Confer on Ort Expansion" - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (1939)