Danish West India Company

The Danish West India Company ( Danish West Indian - Guinean Company ) ( Danish: Vestindisk Kompagni or Det Vestindisk - Guineiske Kompagni ) was a Danish trading company that trade between the Danish colonies on the so-called Gold Coast (now Ghana) and the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix in the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands ) was used.

Prehistory

On March 28, 1659 in Hamburg Glückstädter Africanische company - a front organization Heinrich Carloff, and the Amsterdam Jan de Swaan and Isaac Coymans - by Vincent Klingenberg and Jacob del Boe founded. On May 20, King Frederick III confirmed. in Copenhagen the contract and gave a Octroi for 25 years. The Friedrichsburg fortress, now part of Cape Coast was their main and most distinguished commercial center. " On 16 April, the Danish possessions had fallen by treachery into the hands of the Dutch West India Company, and thus the Glückstädter company actually withdrawn their support already at its foundation. " The Danish government tried to France and England to move against the Dutch West India Company. The end of 1663 Robert Holmes came to the rescue. Nevertheless, the Glückstädter company could not keep up and was in 1671 admitted to the Danish West India Company.

West India Company

It was founded on 11 March 1671, " West India Company " ( Vestindisk Kompagni ) and on 30 August 1680 in "West Indian - Guinean Company " (Det Vestindisk - Guineiske Kompagni ) renamed. On August 24, 1754, the Danish government announced that the company should be converted into Rentekammeret Vestindisk - guineisk renteskriverkontor on November 28, 1754. From 1760 it was known as Vestindisk - guineiske pension -og generaltoldkammer.

This led to a short-term foundation of Det Guineiske Kompagni by a Royal Decree of 18 March 1765 in order to maintain trade with the Danish colony on the Gold coast. In November, while Fort Christiansborg Palace and Fort Fredensborg came into their possession for 20 years, but the company never got back the trade monopoly, which owned the former West India Company. The trade remained for all Danish, Norwegian, Schleswig Holstein and open societies.

In the mid-1770s the company ran into financial problems so strong that it was dissolved on 22 November 1776. Already in August / September 1775, the government had again taken control of the fort.

Credentials

  • European expansion
  • Trading Company
  • Danish colonial history (Africa)
  • Danish West Indies
  • Established in 1671
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Robert Holmes (Royal Navy officer) Osu Castle Duchy of Schleswig Duchy of Holstein
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