Carsten Tank

Carsten Tank ( born April 23, 1766 Halden (now Halden ); † January 28, 1832 in Halden ) was a Norwegian merchant and politician.

His parents were the merchant and stamp paper Administrator Nils Carstensen tank (1725-1801) and his wife Sophie Cathrine luminaires ( 1740-1778 ). He married his first wife about 1794 Bertha Sophie Leth, daughter of the mayor, calibration and official merchandise Examiner Christian Leth ( 1740-1803 ) and his wife Maria Margaretha Ziegler ( 1752-1820 ) (19 January 1777-18 February 1795. ); his second wife he married on August 19, 1796 by Cathrine Cappelen (July 21, 1772-26. June 1837 ), daughter of the merchant Diderik of Cappelen ( 1734-1794 ) and his wife Petronelle Juel ( 1737-1785 ).

Economic rise

Tank grew up in a wealthy merchant family in Halden and took over the company Tank & Co., which was founded by his grandfather. About the family of his paternal grandmother he was related to influential people with good connections to Christiania. He received a commercial education, and its divisions were wholesale, shipping and timber trade. He was a very rich man in the years before the crisis of 1807. He owned more than 100 estates. In 1823 he bought the manor Sanne in Tune (now a part of Sarpsborg ) with Norway's then largest sawmill solos. Some of his farms, he ran as model farms, where the knowledge of the agriculture was widespread in the environment. He also operated a sugar mill and a tobacco factory. In 1811 he donated 10 000 Rigsdaler to the newly established Norwegian University of Christiania. The war, inflation, the Great Fire of Halden, the decline of the timber trade, and bankruptcies at home and abroad brought him into financial distress. His business partner announced him their loans. In 1829 he went bankrupt and had to apply for the State Pension, which was also granted to him by the king.

Political activity

Due to its good trade relations with Sweden, he was a supporter of the early Union with Norway Sweden. In 1790 he met in a secret mission to the King of Sweden Gustav III. seconded General Gustav Mauritz Armfelt together in Värmland, where a Norwegian insurrection against Denmark was discussed. Prince Christian Frederik visited him in 1813 and they became friends. In 1813 he took part in a meeting in Christiania, which dealt with the establishment of a Norwegian Diskonto and credit bank. On January 27, 1814, he attended the meeting of influential men from Christiania with Prince Christian Frederik and on February 16 at the Notables Assembly at Eidsvoll. As of March 2, 1814, he was a member of the Governing Council and was on May 19, the State Council. In June and July 1814, he was witness to the negotiations with the emissaries of the Great Powers who opposed the independence of Norway and demanded compliance with the peace of Kiel on 14 January 1814. One of them described him as hostile danes and advocates of the Swedish - Norwegian Union. Shortly after the departure of the delegations, when the war was no longer avert different tank from the government. Tank traveled to Sweden to negotiate with the Crown Prince and prepared the peace of Moss. On his return he brought the Norwegian Government the draft of a peace treaty and the Union relations. He had defied the specifications King Christian Frederik, and there arose doubts about his political stance, because of tanks sight was the Union with Sweden an advantageous solution. He represented Halden and Fredrikstad in the Stortingsversammlungen 1815-1816 and 1821-1822. 1821 he became President of the Storting. In the first session, he took special care of the Norwegian money and banking, and him the greatest influence on the outcome is attributed.

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