Herman Lengerken Kløcker
Herman Lengerken (de) Kløcker (18 June 1706 – 4 December 1765) was a Danish merchant, landowner and vice mayor of Copenhagen. He owned the Gjeddesdal estate west of Copenhagen. Early life and education Kløcker was born on 18 June 1706, the son of Abraham Kløcker. After 2 years of training for the trade in Germany, Netherlands, England and France, he came home in 1728. Career In 1730, he acquired citizenship in Copenhagen as a wholesaler; In 1734 he became a bank commissioner and curator at Waisenhuset. In 1741, he became a Supreme Court justice, In 1750, he became deputy mayor of Copenhagen. In 1761, he became director of the Poor Authority, In 1762, he became a committee member of the Missopnskollegiet. Property and titles Kløcker's city home was the Kløcker House on Store Kongensgade. In 1741 he bought Gjeddesdal Gjeddesdal is a manor house located in Greve Municipality, some 20 kilometres west of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate was created in the 1670s but ...
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