Wilhelm Christian Benecke von Gröditzberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany
About Wilhelm Christian Benecke von Gröditzberg
- Wilhelm Christian Benecke von Gröditzberg (12 December 1779 - 4 June 1860), né Wilhelm Christian Benecke, was a German banker, merchant, estate owner and art collector.
- He was ennobled in 1829 as Benecke von Gröditzberg, after he had bought the fief Gröditzberg including a baroque palace and medieval Castle Gröditzberg (now: Grodziec) in Silesia. Wilhelm Christian Benecke was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany.
- In partnership with Norwegian industrialist, Benjamin Wegner, he bought Blaafarveværket at Åmot in Modum in Buskerud, Norway during 1822.
- The mining and industrial company Blaafarveværket had been founded in 1773 to extract cobalt from the mines at Modum, Norway .
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