The ('Wholesalers' Society') was a society for wholesale merchants in Copenhagen founded by law in 1742. Since 1714, it was possible to acquire citizenship as a wholesaler in the city. was reorganized in 1817. In 1987 the association was replaced by the Danish Chamber of Commerce.
was founded by law in 1742. The inaugural meeting took place on 31 August 1842 in Sø-Assurance-Compagniet's offices. The meeting was attneded by Hans Hendrick Beck, Andreas Bjørn, Oluf Blach, P. Bortman, Søren G. Elsegaard, Michael Fabritius & Wever, Carl Hieronimus Gustmeyer, Joost van Hemert, Johan P. Issenberg, Søren Jørgensen, Jens Gregersen Klitgaard, Daniel Lindeman and Rasmus Sternberg.[1]
The society was initially headed by a chairman and two elders. Membership in required proof of maintaining an office, being trained as merchant, owning stakes in one or more ships, as well as keeping international correspondence.[2]
In 1797, 48 of Copenhagen's 7080 wholesale merchants with citizenship as were members of .[3] As of 16 June 1809, the number of wholesale merchants in Copenhagen had increased to 173 (cf. list below).[3]
was reorganized in 1817. Its affairs were from then on managed by a committee whose 13 members were elected at the 's annual general meetings.[4]
In 1886, Wilhelmine Rerup became the first female member of .[5] Caroline Herding became the second female member of the organisation.[6]
As of 1969, it was no longer mandatory for businesspeople with the title of (wholesaler) to be members of . In 1987, it merged with (founded in 1901) as (from 2000 and from 2007 part of the Danish Chamber of Commerce,).
was initially based in bank cashier Lacoppidan's building at Købmagergade 35. As of 1804, its meetings were held in a room in the Sundorph House at Ved Stranden 10. In 1857, Frederick VII sold the building to for 70,000 rigsdaler.
's committee represented the merchant class equally before the government and the Rigsdag (Parliament) and acted as its external representative wherever it was necessary to safeguard its special interests. was from its 1817 reorganisation based in the Sundorph House prior to purchasing the Stock Exchange building, which it purchased in 1857 and supervised,[7] [8] managed daily stock exchange meetings, issued responses to questions whose answers required special commercial expertise, participated in the election of the members of the Maritime and Commercial Court, held brokerage examinations, participated in the official fixing of the exchange rate and supervised the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Attached to the committee were assessment and arbitration committees for the grain trade, the feed trade, the seed trade and the butter trade, as well as a committee for setting the price quotes for Danish butter.[9] Since 1888, the committee published a detailed annual trade report. Finally, the committee managed the Brockian Business Schools (today Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College; see Niels Brock);[10] a benefit fund, to which fines assessed for not attending the stock exchange on time are donated; as well as a large number of grants.
Peder Severin Krøyer depicted some of the society's members in his monumental group portrait painting From Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Carl Nielsen wrote a cantata,, to commemorate its 100th anniversary.[11]
This list is incomplete.
| Portrait | Chairman | Term | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicolai Burmester | valign=top | 1642 | ||
| 2 | Gregorius Klaumann | valign=top | 1746 ? | ||
| Peter Borre | valign=top | 1762 1789 | |||
| Johann Ludvig Zinn | valign=top | 1790 1802 | |||
| Hans Rudolph Saabye | valign=top | 1802 | |||
| Portrait | Chairman | Term | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erich Erichsen | valign=top | 1817 ? | [12] | |||
| Friederich Tutein | valign=top | 1832 1842 | [13] | |||
| Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt | valign=top | 1842 1850 | [14] | |||
| Andreas Nicolai Hansen | valign=top | 1850 ? | [15] | |||
| Moritz G. Melchior | valign=top | 1873 1884 | ||||
| 1 | Carl Frederik Tietgen | valign=top | 1885 | |||
| Harald Klitgaard | valign=top | 1912 1915 | ||||
| C. C. Claussen | valign=top | 1915 1920 | ||||
| 1 | Ernst Meyer | valign=top | 1922 1933 | |||
| Rudolph Schmidt | valign=top | 1941 1948 | ||||
| valign=top | 1966 1969 |
| Name | Citizenship | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1727 | |||||
| Michael Fabritius | 1732 | ||||
| Andreas Bodenhoff | 1749 | ||||
| Peter Borre | 1750 | ||||
| Peter Fenger | 1752 | ||||
| John Brown | 1755 | ||||
| 1765 | |||||
| Johan Jacob Frolich | Lille Strandstræde 20 (1787) | ||||
| Knud Christensen | Langebrogade 15 | ||||
People with citizenship as wholesalers in Copenhagen as of 16 June 1809, arranged chronologically by year that citizenship was acquired:[3]
| Name | Citizenship | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Christian Hansen | ||||
| 2. | 1764 | Toldbodgade 15 | |||
| 3. | 1765 | ||||
| 4. | Nyhavn 63 | ||||
| 5. | 1772 | ||||
| 6. | Holmens Kanal 12 | ||||
| 7. | Strandgade 22 | ||||
| 8. | 1777 | ||||
| 9. | Rasmus Kirketerp | Toldbodgade 2 | |||
| 10. | Christian Ludvig Lütken | Lille Strandstræde 20 (1801), Amaliegade 13 | |||
| 11. | Overgaden Oven Vandet 10 | ||||
| 12. | Andreas Collstrup | Holmens Kanal 10 | |||
| 13. | 1780 | Frederiksholms Kanal 6 | |||
| 14. | Rasmus Selmer | Nyhavn 57 (1787), Nybrogade 12 (1801) | |||
| 15. | Sankt Annæ Plads 10 (part of, 1787) | ||||
| 16. | |||||
| 17. | Gammeltorv 22 | ||||
| 18. | Jens Jyde | ||||
| 19. | Hans Friis | Kvæsthusgade 5 | |||
| 20. | 1783 | ||||
| 21. | H. J. Cantor | ||||
| 22. | G. L. Becker | Gammeltorv 18 | |||
| 23. | J. L. Junghans | ||||
| 24. | |||||
| 25. | |||||
| 26. | A. L. Warberg | ||||
| 27. | |||||
| 28. | Emanuel Falckner | Lille Strandstræde 20 (1787) | |||
| 29. | Johannes Schartau | Brogade 1 (1801) | |||
| 30. | Knud Tang | Gothersgade 12 (1787) | |||
| 31. | 1767 | ||||
| 32. | Fortunstræde, Nyhavn 17, Vildmanden | ||||
| 33. | Amaliegade 10 | ||||
| 34 | Vimmelskaftet 30 | ||||
| 35. | Overgaden Oven vandet 6 (1793-), Ny Kongensgade 1 (1800-) | ||||
| 36. | Hans Staal Hagen | ||||
| 37. | Overgaden Neden Vandet 39 (1792-1823) | ||||
| 38. | Casper Fried. Fiedler | Vimmelskaftet 49 | |||
| 39. | Ved Stranden 2 | ||||
| 40. | S. C. Wedege | ||||
| 41. | Christian Faber Birch | Kvæsthusgade 5 | |||
| 42 | Jacob Agier | ||||
| 43. | Niels Brock Hansen | ||||
| 44 | Georg Daniel von der Pahlen | Laksegade 4, Vingårdstræde 1-3 | |||
| 45. | Carl Ludvig Drewsen | ||||
| 46. | Christian Thomsen | ||||
| 47. | 1795 | Amaliegade 24 | |||
| 48. | Joseph Nath. David | Badstuestræde 11 (1801) | |||
| 49. | |||||
| 50. | Jens Harboe | ||||
| 51. | Frid. Ch. Friderici | ||||
| 52. | Peder Fridr. Becker | ||||
| 53. | J. P. Hjorthøy | ||||
| 54. | Morten Cortsen | Kvæsthusgade 1 (1801) | |||
| 55. | Andreas Petersen | ||||
| 56. | Peter Møller | ||||
| 57. | Schambach Selboe | Børsgade 50, Slotsholmsgade 49 | |||
| 58. | Jacob Thostrup | ||||
| 59. | Johan David Vogel | ||||
| 60. | Daniel Walker | ||||
| 61. | Moses Levin Mariboe | ||||
| 62. | Hans Kye | ||||
| 63. | Peter Tutein | Købmagergade 42 (1801) | |||
| 64. | Vimmelskaftet 47 | ||||
| 65. | Diederich Tutein | Vimmelskaftet 39 | |||
| 66. | L. N. Cramer | ||||
| 67. | Isac Larpent | ||||
| 68. | Christ. Daniel Otte | ||||
| 69. | Rasmus Schifter | ||||
| 70. | Joh. Rud. Meyer | ||||
| 71. | Johan Jacob Leiner | ||||
| 72. | Francois le Chevalier | ||||
| 73. | Niels Frid. Læssøe | ||||
| 74. | Joh. Gerhard Møller | ||||
| 75. | H. G. Christensen. | ||||
| 76. | Gottlieb Eichel | ||||
| 77. | Ferdinand Gotthilf Kellermann | Kvæsthusgade 1 (1801) | |||
| 78. | Jørgen Christian Krossing | Rorvegade 29 | |||
| 79. | Jens Johansen | ||||
| 80. | |||||
| 81. | Oluf Løvgreen | ||||
| 82. | Johannes Gregorius Veith | ||||
| 83. | Moses Bendix | ||||
| 84. | Nicolai C. Reimer | ||||
| 85. | C. S. Mangor | Bredgade 60 | |||
| 86. | Wilh. Aug. Raasch | ||||
| 87. | Anders Nielsen | ||||
| 88. | Johan Frid. Zinn | ||||
| 89. | J. M. Damkiær | ||||
| 90 | C. F. G. Herre | ||||
| 91. | O. J. Arnemann | ||||
| 92. | C. Fantauzzi d’Orfee | ||||
| 93. | Georg Fridrich Wilhelm Scheuermann | Kvæsthusgade 3 | |||
| 94. | |||||
| 95. | Mads Fonnesbech | ||||
| 96. | Marcus Stampe | ||||
| 97. | Jacob Seeler | ||||
| 98. | Alexander Watt | ||||
| 99. | Lauritz Lauritzen | ||||
| 100. | G. L. Køppen | ||||
| 101. | |||||
| 102. | Peder Cøster | ||||
| 133. | J. W. v. Halle | ||||
| 104. | C. F. A Wulff | ||||
| 105. | James Gordon | ||||
| 106. | J. S. Meyer | ||||
| 107. | Meyer Seligman Trier | ||||
| 108. | A. F. Beyer | ||||
| 109. | Nathaniel Cox | ||||
| 111. | Alexius Hoffmann | ||||
| 112. | Peter Frid. Lowe | ||||
| 113. | Jens Peter Jensen | ||||
| 114. | W. C. Good | ||||
| 115. | Jens Holbech | ||||
| 116. | J. H. Malling | ||||
| 117. | B. Wichmann | ||||
| 118. | D. C. Welling | ||||
| 119. | |||||
| 120. | H. C. Müffelmann | ||||
| 121. | Mathias Sartz | ||||
| 122. | F. B. Branner | ||||
| 123. | Peter Kofoed | ||||
| 124. | Isac Benners | ||||
| 125. | Laurentius Collstrup | ||||
| 127. | Carl Ferrall | ||||
| 128. | H. C. Müffelmann | ||||
| 129. | V. N. Mangor | ||||
| 130. | C. J. Hasfeldt | ||||
| 131. | A. L. Schmidt | ||||
| 131. | J. J. v. Hemert | ||||
| 132. | J. F. Hoch | ||||
| 133. | P. R. W. Mariboe | ||||
| 134. | R. J. Schmidt | ||||
| 135. | F. A. Eschee | ||||
| 136. | S. C. Gustmeyer | ||||
| 137. | Christ. Broberg | ||||
| 138. | N. C. Wedersoe. | ||||
| 139. | J. L. Nathanson | ||||
| 140. | G. F. Holm | ||||
| 141. | Jens Jensen Berg | ||||
| 142. | E. C. Busch | ||||
| 143. | Erich Nissen | ||||
| 144. | Gerson Moses Melchior | ||||
| 145. | Falch Aron | ||||
| 146. | Hans Lausen | ||||
| 147. | C. F. Wohlermann | ||||
| 148. | J. J. Holbech | ||||
| 149. | N. 0. Botch | ||||
| 150. | H. P. Duus | ||||
| 151. | K. A. Christiani. | ||||
| 152. | Iver Wibroe | ||||
| 153. | Georg Jørgefisen | ||||
| 154. | C. H. Bentzen | ||||
| 155. | N. C. R. Saabye | ||||
| 156. | P. F. van Wyllich | ||||
| 157. | Christen Fogh | ||||
| 158. | L. B. Hollænder | ||||
| 159. | August Gøtæe | ||||
| 160. | P. P. Kofoed | ||||
| 161. | Poul Andreas Collstrop | ||||
| 162. | Laue Jessen Maag | Ny Vestergade 13 (1811-) | |||
| 163. | J. D. Meyer | ||||
| 164. | J. J. Petzholdt | ||||
| 165. | Niels Møller | ||||
| 166. | Claus Carstens | ||||
| 167. | Peter Jacob Topp | Nørre Voldgade 62/Nørregade 42 | |||
| 168. | Peter Mosbøll | ||||
| 169. | Magnus Ipsen | ||||
| 170. | |||||
| 171. | Andreas Leisner | ||||
| 172. | Ole Christian Gammeltoft | ||||
| 173. | A. C. F. Schrøder | ||||
| Name | Citizenship | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18631881 | |||
| ? | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18741893 | |||
| ? | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18931902 | |||
| 1812 | ||||
| 1812 | ||||
| 1813 | ||||
| ? | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18341756. | |||
| 1820 | ||||
| 1928 | ||||
| 1834 | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee from 1857 | |||
| Arnold Eugen Reimann | 1834 | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 19141010 | ||
| 1835 | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18421863 | |||
| 1857 | ||||
| 1863 | ||||
| 1864 | ||||
| 1868 | ||||
| 1869 | ||||
| 1850 | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 17751878 | |||
| 1856 | ||||
| 1866 | ||||
| 1871 | ||||
| 1872 | ||||
| 1873 | ||||
| 1876 | ||||
| 1766 | ||||
| ? | Member of Grosserer-Societetet's committee 18941820 | |||
| Carl G. Melchior | 1882 | |||
| 1886 | ||||
| Carl G. Melchior | 1892 | |||
| 1892 | ||||
| 1893 | ||||
| 1930 | ||||
| Committee member from 1908. | ||||