Hinrich Ladiges (14 January 1731 – 4 March 1805) was a German-Danish sugar manufacturer. He owned two sugar refineries in

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and died as one of the wealthiest men in the country. He died unmarried and left much of his estate to charity. His former home at

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14, now known as the Holm House after a later owner, was listed on the Danish registry for protected buildings and places in 1926.

Biography

Ladiges was born in Altona. His parent were

sugar-baker A sugar-baker was the owner of a sugar house, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados. Sugar refining would normally be combined with sugar trading, which was a lucrative business. The architectural historian Kerry Downes gives an ex ...

Ditmer L. (c. 1698–1764) and Margaretha Homann. He apprenticed as a sugar manufacturer at sugar refineries in Germany. In 1752, he was granted a monopoly on the establishment and operation of two sugar refineries in

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and Viborg of which only the latter was built. In 1757 he was granted permission to move his sugar refinery to Copenhagen. In 1776 he opened a second sugar refinery. He became one of the wealthiest men in Denmark.

Property

Ladiges owned the property at

14 in

. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1926. Ladiges was from 1767 also the owner of a country house on

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. The land stretched all the way from Allégade to present-day Edisonvej along the north side of

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Personal life

Ladiges never married. He proposed to

Johann Ludvig Zinn Johann Ludvig Zinn (14 September 1734 – 3 February 1802) was a German-Danish merchant who founded a trading house in Copenhagen in 1765 and died as one of the wealthiest men in the city. Zinn lived in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenha ...

's daughter Sophie Dorothea Zinn when she was 17 years old. Her father was strongly in favour of the liaison but she declined. On his death, he left an estate of 1½ mio.

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of which Almindelig hospital,

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, Fødselsstiftelsen and the city's poorhouses (''fattigvæsnet'') each received approximately 200,000 rigsdaler.

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Danish industrialists Danish sugar industry businesspeople Danish company founders Danish philanthropists 18th-century Danish businesspeople Businesspeople from Copenhagen People from Altona, Hamburg 1731 births 1805 deaths Danish sugar industry 18th-century philanthropists {{Denmark-bio-stub