Conrad Christian Parnemann Langaard (18 November 1823 – 11 August 1897) was a Norwegian businessman. He was the founder of the tobacco company, Conrad Langaard A/S.

Biography

Langaard was born at

Lillesand Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include ...

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, ) was a county (''fylke'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . ...

, Norway as a son of sea captain Mads Christian Langaard (1774–1854) and Ellevine Ellefsen (1792–1874). He was a brother of

Mads Langaard Mads Ellef Langaard (3 May 1815 – 23 March 1891) was a Norwegian brewery owner and industrialist. He was the founder of the brewery Frydenlunds bryggeri, now a division of Ringnes. Personal life Langaard was born at Lillesand in Aust-Agde ...

Through him, he was an uncle of business executive

Christian Langaard Christian Langaard (5 August 1849 – 31 August 1922) was a Norwegian industrialist and art collector. He was born in Christiania as a son of brewery owner Mads Langaard and Lovise Jakobine Knudsen. He was married to Ellevine Ellefsen and wa ...

and a grand-uncle of art historian Johan Henrik Langaard (1899- 1988). From March 1857 he was married to Henriette Bull (1829–1867), and from February 1869 he was married to Andrea Serene Jensen (1821–1894), a sister of Lutheran priest and dramatist Peter Andreas Jensen (1812-1867). Through his son, factory owner Rasmus Agerup Langaard (1860–1908), he was a grandfather of tennis player

Conrad Langaard Conrad Christian Parnemann Langaard (18 November 1823 – 11 August 1897) was a Norwegian businessman. He was the founder of the tobacco company, Conrad Langaard A/S. Biography Langaard was born at Lillesand in Aust-Agder, Norway as a son o ...

. In 1841, he moved to Christiania (now Oslo) with his brother Mads Langaard, who later founded Frydenlunds Brewery A/S. He entered the tobacco industry in 1849, and founded the eponymous company Conrad Langaard A/S in 1854. Starting from a tobacco factory in Oslo, the company eventually became Norway's largest wholesale distributor of tobacco products. Langaard was also a ship-owner, and became one of the wealthiest persons in Norway. Conrad Langaard died in 1897 and business management was then taken over by his only son Rasmus Langaard. The company he founded still exists as a division of Olav Thon Group. Olav Thon Group (''Olav Thon Gruppen'') is owned by the

Olav Thon Foundation The Olav Thon Foundation () is a Norwegian foundation and as such the biggest in Norway. Information In accordance with its statutes, the Olav Thon Foundation's primary activity is to own the Olav Thon Group, including the hotel chain Thon Ho ...

(''Olav Thon Stiftelsen''). Olav Thon Group operates primarily in the retail and hotel sectors. It hold a position in shopping centers located in Norway and Sweden as well as Thon Hotels which is one of Norway's leading hotel chains.

References

External links

Conrad Langaard website
1823 births 1897 deaths People from Lillesand Norwegian company founders {{Norway-business-bio-stub