Ditlev Emanuel Torm (24 April 1836 – 22 November 1907) was a Danish businessman and co-founder of the shipping company

Dampskibsselskabet Torm TORM based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a shipping company that owns and operates product tankers. The Company's product tankers carry refined oil products such as gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha and diesel oil. History Torm was founded by Ditlev ...

Early life and education

Torm was born in

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, the son of merchant and later shipbroker in

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. He spent the next ten years in the Far East with only one short interruption.

Career

After his return to Denmark, Torm initially worked for . He left the company when he was treated unfairly in connection with the wrecking of ''S.S. Fyn''. In 1879, he started with a single steam vessel. In 1889. he then founded

in a partnership with

Christian Schmiegelow Christian Frederik Joachim Schmiegelow (4 September 1859 - 12 November 1949) was a Danish businessman. A co-founder of Dampskibsselskabet Torm, later worked for the East Asiatic Company where he was part of the management from 1909 to 1935. Early ...

. The company had an initial capital of DKK 212,000. Torm headed the office while Schmiegelow sailed their first ship, the steamer ''S.S. Alice''. The company's fleet grew steadily. It focused on the

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and

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...

. Torm served as president of from 1900 to 1907 and also as president of . He was also a member of the Maritime and Commercial Court ().

Personal life

Torm married Elise Helene Mathilde Zoéga (30 January 1846 – 16 March 1918) on 28 March 1868 in Flensburg. Their son, Frederik Torm, was a theologian. Torm died on 22 November 1907 in Copenhagen. He is buried in

Assistens Cemetery Assistens Cemetery ( da, Assistens Kirkegård) is the name of a number of cemeteries in Denmark. The common nominator is, as the first part of the name implies (Latin: ''assistens'' meaning assisting), an assisting cemetery for a town's churches. ...

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