Friederich Tutein
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| Born | 9 September 1757 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 6 March 1853 (aged 95) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupations | Merchant and industrialist |
Johann Friederich Tutein (9 September 1757 – 6 March 1853) was a Danish merchant, ship-owner and industrialist. He managed the family's trading house under the name Fr. Tutein & Co. from 1799. It mainly traded on the Danish colonies with its own fleet of merchant ships. He owned the Tutein House at Vimmelskaftet in Copenhagen, the country house Rosendal in Østerbro and the manor house Edelgave.
Tutein was born into a wealthy merchant family in Copenhagen, the son of Peter Tutein (1726–1799) and Pauline Maria Tutein née Rath (1725–1799). His father had established a thriving trading house in 1747 and was also the owner of a textile factory in a partnership with Reinhard Iselin. Friederich Tutein was educated in his father's company.
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On his father's death in 1799, Tutein took on the family's trading house and industrial enterprises under the company name Fr. T. & Co.. He went to both England and Switzerland to study the latest developments in kattun production and was granted a state loan of 40,000 Danish rigsdaler in 1800 for expanding his factory, In 1806 he sold the factory in protest against the Customs Act. He mainly traded colonial goods and was a partner in the St. Croix sugar refinery. His trading house made it through the crisis years of 1807 to 1814.[1]
He was president of Grosserer-Societetet, a wholesaler organization, from 1832 to 1842. He was appointed to etatsråd in 1848.
