Peter Mærsk Møller

Peter Mærsk Møller (22 September 1836 – 9 February 1927) was a Danish sea captain and the father of Arnold Peter Møller, founder of the Maersk corporation, and grandfather of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who made Maersk the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world.[1]

Peter Mærsk Møller
Born22 September 1836
Rømø, Denmark
Died9 February 1927 (1927-02-10) (aged 90)
Svendborg, Fyn, Denmark

Career

He passed his merchant officer's examination at Flensborg Navigation School and became a captain in 1861. His first assignment was the ship Prima in 1862.[2]

After the Second Schleswig War in 1864, Rømø, as Flensborg, passed under Prussian rule (and from 1871 German territory; Rømø remained so until 1920, and Flensborg – now Flensburg – still is a German city), so Captain Mærsk Møller moved to Dragør, only a few kilometres to the east of Copenhagen. He was the first in Denmark to suggest steam ships instead of sailing ships. He did so in 1884, as he moved from Dragør to Svendborg, on the island of Fyn.[2]

In 1904, Peter Mærsk Møller, with the fifth of his nine sons, Arnold Peter Møller, founded Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg i 1904 ("The Steam Ship Company of Svendborg 1904").[3] Eight years later, the success of this enterprise encouraged A.P. Møller to start his own: Dampskibsselskabet af 1912, which eventually became the Maersk business conglomerate.

References
  1. "Container shipping". Economist.com. 11 May 2005. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
  2. "Peter Mærsk Møller, skibsreder i Svendborg".
  3. "Fra lille dampskibsselskab til Danmarks største virksomhed", DR, 13 December 2005. Accessed 26 November 2015.


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