Benjamin Wegner

Who was Benjamin Wegner?

Jacob Benjamin Wegner was a German-born Norwegian industrialist and landowner. He was the co-owner and Director General of Blaafarveværket, Norway's leading industrial enterprise with around 2,000 employees, from 1823 to 1849, and is noted both as a pioneering industrialist as well as a social reformer who introduced a range of benefits for his workers. He was also the owner of Frogner Manor, the main owner of Hafslund Manor and a co-owner of the Hassel Ironworks. He was the consul general to Norway of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, at the time sovereign city states, and of the Kingdom of Portugal. He was married to Henriette Seyler, a member of the Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty of Hamburg.