page_title: Hans Puggaard
section_title: H. Puggaard & Co.
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Puggaard / H. Puggaard & Co.
caption_attribution_description: English: The Hans Puggaard &amp;Co-owned ship Johannes Hage (type: Skinnertbrig)
context_page_description: Hans Puggaard was a Danish merchant and shipowner who founded H. Puggaard & Co. in 1813. The company became a leading wholesaler of grain and was also active in the market for import of colonial goods such as coffee and especially sugar.
  Puggaard's wife, Bolette Puggaard née Hage, a daughter of Christopher Friedenreich Hage, was a painter. The couple supported many of the artists of the Danish Golden Age. A daughter married Orla Lehmann.
context_section_description: In 1813, Puggaard was finally licensed as merchant and established his own trading house. He went on numerous journeys to Sweden, Hamburg, England and seaports on the Baltic Sea. Puggaard specialized in exporting grain from the countries around the Baltic Sea to England but also traded in timber, herring and wine.
   
  Puggaard's marriage to Bolette Hage, a daughter of Christopher Friedenreich Hage a business partner on Møn, was also a key event in the development of his company. The marriage strengthened the business relationship between the two families and Puggaard later employed his brother-in-law Alfred Hage as head of his company's activities in Nakskov and he later became a partner in the company. The Nakskov branch operated its own fleet. In 1823, it consisted of two schooners, Caroline and Anette Hage', both built in Nakskov, the brig Bolette Puggaard, the barque Johannes Hage and schooner brig (skonnertbriggen) Hother.
  Hans Puggaard's son, Rudolph Puggaard, joined the Nakskov office in 1839 and  worked in a leading position at the head office in Copenhagen from 1842.
  Trade in grain remained the most important business area but the company was also a major importer of colonial goods, such as coffee and sugar, and later also engaged in banking.
  Puggaard and Hage had many disagreements and the younger Hage gradually came to play a more dominant role in the company.
caption: Johannes Hage in 1849
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