page_title: Erhard Frederiksen
section_title: Early career in agriculture
hierarchical_section_title: Erhard Frederiksen / Early career in agriculture
caption_attribution_description: English: Højbygaard Sugar Factory at Holeby on Lolland, Denmark
context_page_description: Erhard Frederiksen was a Danish agronomist and sugar manufacturer. He is considered one of the most significant writers on agricultural economics of his time in Denmark. He was in 1872-74 a co-founder of a sugar factory at Holeby on Lolland which was later taken over by the Danish Sugar Factories under the name Højbygaard Sugar Factory.
context_section_description: Frederiksen managed Nøbbøllegård  for his mother from 1863 after his father had died in 1861 and became the owner of the estate in 1866. He enthusiastically introduced and experimented with many of the new technologies and principals that he had studied at the Royal Agricultural College and abroad.
  His brother, Johan Ditlved Frederiksen, in 1871, returned from a journey to Germany where he had studied sugar production based on sugar beats. The two brothers constructed the Lolland Sugar Factory in 1982-74 but was hit hard by a combination of unfortunate circumstances. The 1872 Baltic Sea flood flooded much of Lolland and a new tax on sugar beats was in the same time introduced in 1973. It also turned out to be more difficult than expected to convince local farmers to grow sugar beats for the production. Industribanken cancelled their credit in 1876 and the company went bankrupt the following year. Frederiksen also lost his estate which was taken over by Privatbanken. The factory was reopened by C. F. Tietgen's Danish Sugar Factories under the name Højbygaard Sugar Factory in 1880.
  In 1878, Frederiksen was a co-founder and the first managing director of Københavns Mælkeforsyning. In 1870-80, he visited England and Alsace-Lorraine on a government stipend to study malted barley. He instigated annual malt barley exhibitions and that Landhusholdningsselskabet in 1883 a malt barley committee of which he was an active  member.
caption: Lolland Sufar Factory
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