Danish Asiatic Company (
Danish: Asiatisk Kompagni) was a
Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish trade on the
Danish East Indies and
China
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following the closure of the
Danish East India Company. It was granted a 40-year monopoly on Danish trade on Asia in 1732 and taken over by the Danish government in 1772. It was headquartered at
Asiatisk Plads
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in
Copenhagen
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. Its former premises are now used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Management
Presidents
* 1750–1771:
Adam Gottlob Moltke
Count Adam Gottlob von Moltke (10 November 171025 September 1792) was a Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, and Favourite of Frederick V of Denmark. Moltke was born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg. His son, Joachim Godske Moltke, and his gra ...
Board of directors
Members of the board of directors included:
* 1730–1739:
Gregorius Klauman
* 1736–1746:
Michael Fabritius
Michael Fabritius (2 May 1697 – 13 November 1746) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and shipbuilder.
Early life and education
Michael Fabritius was born in Copenhagen on 12 May 1697. His parents, wine merchant Herman Fabritius (1667-1729) an ...
* 1739–1752:
Olfert Fas Fischer
* 1743–1752:
Joost van Hemert
* 1745–1754:
Peter van Hurk
* 1769–1772:
Gysbert Behagen
Gysbert Behagen (8 March 1725 – 17 December 1783) was a Germany, German-Denmark, Danish merchant, ship owner and director of Danish Asia Company. His home at Strandgade 26 in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen is known as Behagen ...
* 1770–1775:
John Brown
* 1772–1775:
Niels Ryberg
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* 1772–1784:
Conrad Fabritius de Tengnagel
Conrad Alexander Fabritius (8 August 1731 - 13 September 1805), ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel in 1778, was a Danish merchant, shipowner and patron of the arts. He owned Enrum at Vedbæk from 1776.
Early life an ...
* 1773–1775:
William Halling
William Halling (19 March 1744 - 12 April 1796), born Vitus Halling and after 1772 frequently referred to as Brigadér Halling, was a Danish nabob and landowner. He owned the Brigadér Halling House in Copenhagen and Dronninglund in Vendsyssel. ...
* 1773–1775:
Peder Hoppe
* 1776–1783:
Peter van Hemert
* 1779–1784:
Niels Ryberg
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* 1779-1785:
John Brown
* 1783-1792:
Erich Erichsen
* 1791-1805:
Johan Leonhard Fix
* 1792–1811:
Carsten Anker
Carsten Tank Anker (17 November 1747 – 13 March 1824) was a Norwegian businessman, civil servant, politician and one of the Fathers of the Constitution of Norway. He was the owner of the manor house in Akershus at which the original National As ...
, 1st director
* 1812–1819:
Christian Klingberg
Christian Klingberg (16 December 1765 – 9 February 1821) was a Danish Supreme Court attorney and chief legal officer of the Danish Asiatic Company.
Early life and education
Klingberg was born on 16 December 1765 in Copenhagen, the son of lotte ...
* 1816–1823:
Conrad Hauser
* 1819–1843:
Friederich Christian Schäffer
* 1837–1843:
William Frederik Duntzfelt
*Years unknown:
Simon Hooglant
* Unknown years:
Hermann Abbestée
Hermann Abbestée (29 July 1728 – 29 December 1794) was Denmark, Danish governor of Tranquebar from 1762 to 1775 and the first royal governor of Danish India from 1779 to 1788. He served as one of the seven directors of the Danish Asiatic Comp ...
* Unknown Years:
René Pierre François Mourier
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René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the femin ...
*
Rasmus Sternberg Selmer
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* Rasmus (given name)
* Rasmus (surname)
Arts and entertainment
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** ''The Rasmus'' (album), a self-titled studio album by the Finnish band
* the title char ...
Fleet
Details of some of these armed trading ships, often built by the Royal Danish dockyards as "''handelskib, chinafarer''", can be found at the Royal Danish Naval Museum website
[Royal Danish Naval Museum]
List of Danish Warships
/ref> Two have a history record at Skibregister.
*'' Cron Printz Christian''
* Slesvig**
* ''Kongen af Danmark'' (built 1735)[Klem p 220][Klem p 222]
* ''Dokkwen'' (bought 1742)[Klem p 224]
* ''Elephanten'' (acquired 1746, from Rotterdam)[Klem p 226]
* ''Dronning Juliane Marie'' (built 1752)[Klem p 228][Klem p 232][Klem p 234][Record card for ]
Den Gloende
'
* Prins Frederik (built 1772)Norge
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It may also refer to:
People
* Kaare Norge (born 1963), Danish guitarist
* Norge Luis Vera (born 1971), Cuban baseball player
Places
* 11871 Norge, asteroid
Toponyms:
*Norge, Okla ...
(rebuilt 1797–98)
* Christianshavn
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(acquired 1800)
* ''Kronprinsen af Danmark'' (acquired 1801)
* Arveprinsen af Augustenborg (major repairs 1805)
* Kanonchalup (built 1808)
* Kanonchalup (built 1808)
* Kanonchalup (built 1808)
* Kanonchalup (built 1808)
References
Citations
* Knud Klem: ''Skibsbyggeriet i Danmark og Hertugdømmerne i 1700-årene''; Bind I, København 1985;
Knud Klem: "Den danske Ostindie- og Kinahandel" (''Handels- og Søfartsmuseets Årbog 1943''; s. 72-102)
*Royal Danish Naval Museu
website
for Database > Avancerede > Set Skibstype to "Handelsskib" and Datering to appropriate dates> Søg (This works only if the language is set to Danish)
*Royal Danish Naval Museum
*Royal Danish Naval Museum
for individual ships record cards where they exist.
External links
{{Commons category, Danish Asiatic Company
At the Altar of Capitalism
– Calvinist merchants in the Danish Asiatic Company in the 18th century
*The list of ships has been roughly copied from the Danish wikipedia article :da:Asiatisk Kompagni where inline references can be found
Ships
DAC ships
Danish Asiatic Company
Defunct companies of Denmark
Danish companies established in 1730
Companies based in Copenhagen
1845 disestablishments in Denmark