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
n
o. 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.
