Christianvon Koenigsegg

Christian von Koenigsegg is the son of Jesko von Koenigsegg, CEO of JK Energiteknik, and fashionista Brita Aasa. The von Koenigsegg lineage is attested from A.D. 1171 and originates in Swabia, in the Holy Roman Empire, where his ancestors were knights (see Königsegg for details). The current logo of Koenigsegg Automotive is based on the Königsegg familial coat of arms.

Koenigsegg grew up in Stockholm, and spent a year in high school in Danderyd before enrolling at Lundsbergs boarding school, and then studied economics at the Scandinavian School of Brussels. He showed an interest in cars from an early age, starting at the age of five when he watched the stop-motion film The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, about a bicycle builder who built a racing car, Il Tempo Gigante. When he was six years old, he drove a go-kart for the first time, and he vividly recalls this as "one of the best days of his life".

Christian von Koenigsegg married Halldora Tryggvadóttir in 2000, and there are competing stories about where they met. Some sources say that they met during their studies in Brussels, while other sources say they met while in high school. They presently have 2 sons, Sebastian and Samuel. Sebastian von Koenigsegg currently works at Koenigsegg Automotive AB as a Brand & Content Manager. Koenigsegg has alopecia areata universalis, an autoimmune disorder in which the body turns against its own hair follicles.