Johan Jørgen Schwartz was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician

Politician

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 and businessperson

Businessperson

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Schwartz started as a merchant in Drammen, expanding into shipping

Shipping

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 and sawmill

Sawmill

A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....

ing. He was also director of Norges Bank in Drammen, but went bankrupt in the economic crisis at the end of the 1870s.

He sat in the Norwegian Parliament as part of the conservative wing. He was a supporter of railways, and was active in passing Randsfjordbanen

Randsfjordbanen

Randsfjordbanen is 87 km railway located in Buskerud in Norway connecting Drammen to Hønefoss and Hadeland in Oppland. The railway is primarily used for passenger trains, and the only scheduled trains on the stretch are Norges Statsbaner express trains on the Bergen Line between Oslo and...

, Drammenbanen

Drammenbanen

The Drammen Line is a railway line between Oslo and Drammen, Norway, which was opened on 7 October 1872. It serves all trains west of Oslo Central Station and is owned by the Norwegian National Rail Administration....

, Jarlsbergbanen

Vestfoldbanen

The Vestfold Line is a Norwegian railway line which runs from Drammen, through a number of towns in Vestfold and ending in the town of Skien in Telemark. At Skien, the line continues as the Bratsberg Line to Notodden...

 and Vossebanen.