Carl Wilhelm von Gerber (15 May 1883 – 19 August 1959) was a Swedish diplomat and businessman living and working in Egypt.
Gerber passed studentexamen in Kristianstad on 10 June 1902 and graduated with a degree in trade from the Gothenburg Business Institute in 1903.
[1] After trade practice in Germany until May 1907, von Gerber boarded the SS Andros (Deutsche Levante Linie) and arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, on 27 May.
He was vice president of the Société Archéologique d'Alexandrie from 1942 to 1959 and delegate to the Swedish Church Sailor Care Board in Alexandria from 1953 to 1959.
Over the years, the house has been used by the Seamen Board and the Church of Sweden Abroad and has served as a meeting place for the Swedish colony in Alexandria.