Axel Camillo Eitzen (1851–1937)

Axel Camillo Eitzen (30 January 1851 – 1937) was a Norwegian ship-owner.

He was born in Drøbak as a son of postmaster Johan Laur. Eitzen and Cecilia Catharina Cappelen . In 1879 he married ship-owner's daughter Caroline Johanne Hansen.[1]

He finished school in Sarpsborg and started a career at sea in 1867. He became a shipmaster and worked as such until 1890. From then he was a full-time ship-owner and shipbroker.[1] In 1883 he had founded the company Camillo Eitzen, which grew to a major corporation.

He was a board member of Kristiania Port Authority from 1905 to 1911, and of the Nordisk Defence Club.[1] He died in 1937. His son Axel Camillo Eitzen became co-owner in the family company, which was later renamed Tschudi & Eitzen,[2] and another son Johan emigrated to Uruguay to pursue enterprises there. He was the Norwegian General Consul in Montevideo Uruguay. He married Maria Magdalena Ramayon and had a son Johan and twin girls Elsa and Maria Magdalena (Maggie) Eitzen. Elsa Eitzen married and divorced Carlos Deus and had a girl named Maria Cristina Deus Eitzen. Elsa remarried Dirk van der Kaay and had a girl named Solveig van der Kaay Eitzen.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hvem er hvem? 1912
  2. ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1948). "Eitzen, Axel Camillo". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 133. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Eitzen, Juan (Johan) Lauritz". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 135. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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