Shipowner A.P. Møller, born on 2 October 1876 in Dragør, son of Captain Peter Mærsk Møller and Ane (Anna) Mærsk Møller (née Hans Jeppesen), married 1910 to Chastine Estelle Mc-Kinney, two daughters and two sons.

In 1884 the family moved to Svendborg, and Arnold Peter Møller was sent to the local private “realskole”. Having passed the leaving exam at Svendborg Private Realskole, he was apprenticed to merchant I.N. Bonnesen in Sorø, and three years later, in 1895, he started as trainee with two of his father’s business contacts in Newcastle, England. In 1897 he went to the East Prussian city of Königsberg – today Kaliningrad – where A.P. Møller was employed by an export firm, and in 1899 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he joined a shipbroking firm.

In February 1904 A.P. Møller returned to Danmark to take up the post as manager of the chartering department of C.K. Hansen, one of the major shipping and brokerage firms in Copenhagen of that time. Later in the same year he founded A/S Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg (The Steampship Company Svendborg) together with his father, Captain P.M. Møller.

For further information about the history of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group we recommend the books “With Constant Care…” and “A.P. Møller and the Danish Oil”.

“With Constant Care…” unfolds the story about shipowner A.P. Møller and his many achievements until his death in 1965.

“A.P. Møller and the Danish Oil” is the story about A.P. Møller’s involvement in oil and gas in Denmark during the period 1960-1997.