The Tesdorpf family is a political and merchant Hanseaten family from Lübeck and

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Germany. The Tesdorpfs were an old Patrician family in Lübeck before became the mayor of Lübeck in 1715. Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf founded , the first wine trading house in Germany. Gjorslev Gods

Carl Tesdorpf is primarily known for making , a French red wine that ages as it is shipped from

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to Lübeck. The Tesdorpf wine shop was known to supply wine to Germanic and Northern European royalty, as well as

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. In 1999, Carl Tesdorpf was acquired by . The Carl Tesdorpf wine shop is also reported to be the oldest wine shop in Germany. In 1840,

Edward Tesdorpf Edward Tesdorpf (7 September 1817 – 2 May 1889), was a German-Danish landowner, agricultural pioneer and sugar manufacturer. He became the owner of ten estates many of which were located in the Lolland-Falster area where he resided at Orupgaard n ...

moved to the island of

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in Denmark, where he became a farmer, landowner, and sugar manufacturer. Many of the estates that

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and his son acquired have remained in the Tesdorpf family, including

Orupgaard Orupgaard is a manor house located east of Nykøbing and north of Idestrup on the Danish island of Falster. With a history dating from the 13th century, Orupgaard today manages over of farmland and forest as well as an equestrian facility at Br ...

, Pandebjerg,

Gjedsergaard Gjedsergård is a manor house on the island of Falster in southeastern Denmark. It has been owned by members of the Tesdorpf family since 1847. The main building and the parallel building Kavalerfløjen are from 1768 and were listed on the Danish ...

, ,

Gjorslev Gjorslev is a cruciform medieval castle located 17 km south-east of Køge, on the Stevns Peninsula, Stevns Municipality, some forty kilometres south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally owned by the Bishop of Roskilde, it is considered one of ...

and .

Germany

* * Burkhard Tesdorpf * Ebba Tesdorpf * * * * * * * * * * *

Denmark

* Frederik Tesdorpf * *

References

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