Carl-Axel Söderström

Carl-Axel Söderström (23 December 1893[1] – 27 November 1976) was a Swedish photographer and cinematographer who accompanied Clärenore Stinnes on a two-year automobile journey around the world.

On 25 November 1923, in the German Church, Stockholm Söderström married the four-years-younger Gertrud Martha Vahl,[1] born in Berlin to a German confectioner who had emigrated to Sweden with his wife and six children.

[3] On 25 May 1927 Söderström started to journey around the world, as a photographer for Clärenore Stinnes, whom he had met only two days before their departure, in a mass production Adler Standard 6 automobile and escorted by two mechanics and a freight vehicle with spare parts and equipment.

Stinnes' journey was sponsored by the German automotive industry (Adler, Bosch and Aral) with 100,000 Reichsmark.

[2] After their happy return, Carl-Axel Söderström divorced Martha, who died in 1985 without children.