Jens Gram (15 November 1840 – 22 January 1912) was a Norwegian industrialist.
Personal life
He was born in
Ask as a son of Johan Georg Boll Gram and Fredrikke Severine Mathea Stabell.
He was a brother of
Andrea Gram,
grandson of
Jens Jensen Gram and a first cousin of
Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram.
Through his sister Nicoline he was a brother-in-law of
Eilif Peterssen
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting ''Christian II signing t ...
.
In July 1867 in
Vadernes he married Julie Munch (1843–1928), daughter of
P. A. Munch
Peter Andreas Munch (15 December 1810 – 25 May 1863), usually known as P. A. Munch, was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway. Munch's scholarship included Norwegian archaeology, geography, ethnography, ...
. They had two notable children,
Johan Fredrik Gram and
Mads Gram.
[ Through Mads he was the father-in-law of art historian Irma Ingertha Gram.][
]
Career
He enrolled as a student in 1859, and also studied forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and Natural environment, environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and ...
in Germany for a couple of years. When returning home he worked as manager of the family-owned forests. In 1871 he moved to Drammen
Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...
, where he was the vice consul
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A consu ...
for Denmark
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from 1870 to 1906. He took over the company ''Nils Bache'' and renamed it ''Bache & Gran''. Thorleif Bache was a co-owner, but pulled out ten years later. The company became important in the city's pulp and paper industry
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products.
Manufacturing process
In the manufacturing process, pulp is intr ...
, and Gram chaired ''Skandinavisk træmasseforening'' and ''Drammens trælasthandlerdirektion''. In 1900 he co-founded Norwegian Employers' Confederation The Norwegian Employers' Confederation (, NAF) was an employers' organisation in Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arct ...
,[ a predecessor of the ]Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (, NHO) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 30,000 members.
It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the ...
.Skoger
Skoger is a village in Drammen Municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The village is located just north of the Vestfold county border, about south of the centre of the town of Drammen. The villages of Klever and Eikeberg are located about ...
.[
]
References
1840 births
1912 deaths
Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
People from Drammen
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