page_title: Christoph Cloëtta
section_title: Personal life and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Christoph Cloëtta / Personal life and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Christoph Cloëtta (1835-1897), chokoladefabrikant og schweizisk konsul, medaljon fra gravsted på Assistens Kirkegård, København
context_page_description: Christoph Cloëtta was a Swiss-born Danish chocolatier and founder of the Brødrene Cloëtta chocolate factory. The company was granted a royal warrant in 1993. Cloëtta was appointed as Swiss consul in 1888.
context_section_description: Cloëtta  married Ida Friis (16 March 1848 - 21 February 1901), a daughter of war secretary Nis Fritz Friis (1809-84) and Axeline Louise Adelaide Tuxen (1816-98), on 14.5.1869 in Købelev.
  Cloëtta was appointed as Swiss consul in 1888. He is one of the businessmen depicted on Peder Severin Krøyer's monumental 1895 proup portrait painting From Copenhagen Stock Exchange in Børsen. He died on 30 May 1897 and is buried at Assistens Cemetery. His gravestone features a bronze portrait relief.
  The company was continued by his widow and son Fritz Bernhard Cloëtta (12 February 1876 - 15 May 1950).Fritz Bernhard Cloëtta was from 1901 the sole owner of the company. The operations were that same year moved to a new building at Hørsholmsgade]] 20 in Nørrebro. The company moved to Glostrup in the first half of the 1950s and is now headquartered in Ljungsbro, Sweden.
caption: Bronze portrait relief on Cloëtta's grave
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