Abraham Kløcker

Abraham Kløcker (28 September 1673 - 2 February 1730) was a Danish merchant. He served as director of the Danish West Indies Company.

Early life and education Kløcker was born on 28 September 1873 in Aalborg, the son of Jens Pallesen (dead by 1682) og Helvig Kløcker (1641–1718). He became a merchant in his hometown. In 1707, he was granted citizenship as a merchant in Copenhagen. He was soon counted among the city's most industrious traders.

Career In 1726, he and two other prominent merchants succeeded in obtaining the capital's privilege of being the only place where wine, brandy, salt and tobacco could be stored. The motivation for this step was that it would make smuggling more difficult, but it was also to the greatest detriment of the independent trade in the provincial market towns, and it provoked countless complaints. In 1730 the privilege was therefore revoked again. as well as the country house Kløckers Gård in Gentofte.