Danish Asiatic Company (
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: Asiatisk Kompagni) was a
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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
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. 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 gran ...
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 German-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's House (Danis ...
* 1770–1775:
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* 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
Peter van Hemert (29 May 1734 - 20 May 1810) was a Danish merchant and shipowner. His family's trading house, Joost van Hemert & S'nner, existed until 1805.
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Hemert was born in Copenhagen on 20 May 1734, the son of merchant ...
* 1779–1784:
Niels Ryberg
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* 1779-1785:
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* 1783-1792:
Erich Erichsen
Erich Erichsen (31 March 1752 – 7 January 1837) was a Danish merchant and ship-owner. He owned the trading house C. S. Blacks Enke & Co. from 1783. The Erichsen Mansion in Copenhagen is named after him.
Early life and education
Erichsen was bor ...
* 1791-1805:
Johan Leonhard Fix
Johan Leonhard Fix (28 December 1735 - 2 February 1807) was a German-Danish merchant who served as governor of Frederiknagor in Danish India. He moved to Copenhagen in 1787 where he served as director of Danish Asiatic Company from 1791 to 1805. H ...
* 1792–1811:
Carsten Anker
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, 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 lotter ...
* 1816–1823:
Conrad Hauser
Conrad Caspar Hauser (16 February 1743 - 14 December 1824) was a Swiss-Danish merchant, developer and phillantrophist. He contributed to the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the British bombardment of the city in 1807, building many of the houses o ...
* 1819–1843:
Friederich Christian Schäffer
* 1837–1843:
William Frederik Duntzfelt
William Frederik Duntzfelt (12 June 1792 – 12 October 1863) was a Danish merchant. He continued Duntzfelt & Co. but left the company in 1825. He was also a member of the 1848 Danish Constituent Assembly.
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*Years unknown:
Simon Hooglant
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* Unknown years:
Hermann Abbestée
Hermann Abbestée (29 July 1728 – 29 December 1794) was 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 Company from ...
* Unknown Years:
René Pierre François Mourier
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*
Rasmus Sternberg Selmer
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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
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* Prins Frederik (built 1772)Norge
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(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