Lauritz Peter Holmblad
Lauridz Peter Holmblad | |
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 L. P. Holmblad | |
| Born | 8 July 1815 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 16 November 1890 (aged 75) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, industrialist |
Lauritz Peter Holmblad (8 July 1815 – 16 November 1890), usually referred to as L. P. Holmblad, was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. He belonged to the circle around Carl Frederik Tietgen, co-founding several of his companies.
Holmblad is associated with Amager, Copenhagen, where Holmbladsgade is named after him.
Family background
L. P. Holmblad was born into a family of industrialists on 8 July 1715,. His great grandfather, a Swedish dyer who immigrated to Denmark in about 1766, introduced new production methods at the Royal Textile Manufactury where he used Rubia to produce the red dye for the Royal Life Guards' galla uniforms.[1] In 1777 he obtained a royal privilege to set up his own dye manufactury. It was situated in Sølvgade (No. 38, now Holmblad House) but later moved to the corner of Gothersgade and Regnegade. The enterprise was later taken over by his son, Lauridz Holmblad, who also founded a soap manufactury in 1805 and started Denmark's first real production of paint in 1819. L. P. Holmblad's father Jacob Holmblad inherited the soap manufactury in 1827 while his uncle Carl Frederik Holmblad took over the paint manufactury, the later Sadolin & Holmblad.
Jacob Holmblad's soap manufactury on the corner of Gothersgade and Regnegade and also comprised productions of both lacquer and playing cards. His activities also comprised a glue manufactury and a marrow oil manufactury was located in Amager.[2]
L. P. Holmblad
After his father's death in 1837, L. P. Holmblad took over the management of the companies on behalf of his mother. In 1841 he established a production of Whale oil and after his mother ceded the companies to him in 1842 he also founded a candle factory which was the first in Denmark to use stearin in the manufacture of candles.[1] It was a great success and had had to be expanded in 1847.[2] In 1880, L. P. Holmblad moved their production of stearin candles to Blegdamsvej where they had acquired O.F. Asp's candle factory which was expanded by Hans Jørgen Holm. Holmblad also built a new factory on Aamager in 1880.
Other business engagements
In 1862 indvalgtes, Holmblad was elected for Privatbanken's bank council where he until his death remained a loyal supporter of Carl Frederik Tietgen. He took an active part in the industrial and commercial hayday that took place under Tietgen's leadership after 1864. In 1866 he co-founded Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab in 1866 where he was also a board member from 1870. He was also a co-founded of Burmeister & Wain (1872), Em. Z. Svitzers Bjergnings-Entreprise and Great Northern Telephone Company (1870). He also became a board member of the Danish Sugar Factories in 1874.[2]
Holmblad was also involved in companies that were not associated with Tietgen. He was vice chairman of De private Assurandeurer from 1883 and from 1886 its chairman. In 1886 he became a board member of Nye danske Brandforsikringsselskab.[2]
Philantropism
Holmblad was an active philanthropist. In 1857 he became curator of Vajsenhuset and in 1870 one of its three directors. From 1876 he was chairman of the association behind the construction of Kunstnerhjemmet which provided affordable housing and studio facilities for artists.
On Amager, where he gradually concentrated most of his companies, In Amager, where most of his companies were gradually concentrated, he was a great supporter of the poor as well as the construction of both schools and churches.
Legacy
After L. P. Holmblad's death, his company continued to exist under the leadership of first his son and then his grandson until 1919 when it was merged into O.F. Asp under the name ASP-Holmblad. It was part of a larger merger, Medicinalco, which also included three other companies: Gustav Lotze, Th. Lose & Co. and A. Appelts.
The street Holmbladsgade is named after Lauritz Peter Holmblad. Several buildings associated with him still exist today. Holmbladsgade Cultural Centre is based in one of his old buildings, a warehouse from 1880. It was adapted for its current use by Dorte Mandrup in 2001. His oil mill, built the same year, is located next to it.[4] His former candle factory on Blegdamsvej is located at No. 104. The expansion (1880) was designed by Hans Jørgen Holm (windows has been changed). His villa on Holmbladsgade was acquired by Nathanael's Church and adapted for use as a parish house in 1988. His country house Skovbakken is in Skodsborg north of Copenhagen (Strandvej 253). The house was designed by Ferdinand Meldahl in the style of a "Norwegian cottage" and built in 1859.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Historien omkring O.F. Asp og L.P. Holmblad" (in Danish). ASP-Holmblad. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
- ^ a b c d "L.P. Holmblad" (in Danish). Gyldendal.
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- ^ "Husets historie" (in Danish). Københavns Kommune. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ "Historisk håndværkertilbud på Strandvejen" (in Danish). Børsen. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
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