Nils August Andresen Butenschøn, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nils August Andresen Butenschøn

Norwegian businessman

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1842

Date of Death: 27-Sep-1935

Profession: banker

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Nils August Andresen Butenschøn

  • Nils August Andresen Butenschøn (3 February 1842 – 27 September 1935) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway) as the only son of banker Nicolay August Andresen (1812–1894) and Nilsine Augusta Butenschøn (1818–1842).
  • He was a grandson of Nicolai Andresen and grandnephew of Johan Henrik Andresen.
  • His forefathers had founded and run a banking company later named Andresens Bank.
  • In 1893, he took his mother's surname, Butenschøn.He joined the company in 1867, as a junior partner of his father and his uncle Engelhart Andresen.
  • They died in 1894 and 1896 respectively, but from 1892 Butenschøn was a partner with his cousins Carl Christian and Engelhart Jr (the latter left in 1902).
  • Butenschøn spent his career as a chief executive in Andresens Bank, and also served as a consul general.
  • He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
  • Olav and a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.Dating to the 1860s, his father had been the owner and developer of Skøyen Manor (Sondre Skoyen) which he inherited.
  • This estate was located in the neighborhood of Skøyen and is today the site of Skøyenparken, a residential park in Oslo.
  • In 1871, he married Hanna Døderlein.
  • They had the son Barthold A.
  • Butenschøn, who married Mabel Plahte, a daughter of Frithjof M.
  • Plahte; through them Nils August was a grandfather of Barthold A.
  • Butenschøn, Jr.
  • His son became a company partner in 1910, and by that time there were two additional partners as well; Herbert and Viktor Plahte, two brothers of Mabel Plahte.

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