Adolph Meyer Trier
1841 - 1889
Amagertorv 4
The first time
Adolph Trier's
name appeared in
connection with matches
was in 1842 when he signed himself
as a witness to
grocer Frederick
Kølbel himself had
made the
samples of matches,
which he had attached to
his application for a monopoly on
the manufacture of these.
Adolph Trier
had his grocery shop on Amagertorv no. 4,
the current no. 8,
and in 1851,
when he had gone
over to the wholesale trade,
he was general agent for Ole
Christian Greens newly built
factory Godthaab
on Amager. The
main agency
Adolph Trier
had until ca. 1870 when
Menck & Co.,
which was one of the
greater Copenhagen
shareholders in the
Aktietændstikfabrikken Godthaab,
took over the main sales
of Denmark.
In 1857 his
nephew, Sigfried
Goldschmidt joined as a
partner in the firm,
which now changed its name to
Adolph Trier
& Goldschmidt.
After Adolph Trier
died in 1889, his
son, Frederick
Adolph Trier carried on
the company, which in
1925 was converted into a
public limited company.
Adolph
Meyer Trier
Triers shop is after the renaissance house with the two gables
The yard in Amagertorv 4, where boxes are brougth in and out of Triers stock.
