Gunni Busck

Gunni Busck (9 June 1840 – 20 March 1920) was a Danish businessman. He was a founder of the Scandinavian Preserved Butter Company and Københavns Mælkeforsyning. He was the paternal uncle of bookdealer Arnold Busck.

Early life and education Busck, born on June 9, 1840, in Roskilde, was the son of farmer August Busck (1806–1869) and Johanne Marie Secher (1801–1882). His ambition was to become a medical doctor, but unfortunately, he had to abandon his studies due to illness at a young age.

Career

Busck was licensed as a businessman in Copenhagen in 1862 and engaged in the export of sweetened, canned butter to the tropics. The company was in 1874 converted into a limited company (aktieselskab) under the name The Scandinavian Preserved Butter Company, Busck jun. & Co. with Busck as managing director. He founded a cooperative dairy in Slagelse the following year, which over the next few years won a reputation for its experiments and education of labour for the dairy industry.

He purchased the townhouse at Ny Kongensgade 3 in 1877. He was created a Knight in the Order of the Dannebrog in 1887. He died on 20 March 1920 in Frederiksberg and is buried at Assistens Cemetery.