Jacob Marstrand

Jacob Marstrand (10 August 1848 – 3 June 1935) was a Danish master baker and politician. He was a member of the Copenhagen City Council from 1893 and served as Mayor of the Technical Department from 1904 to 1917. His second wife was the children's book writer Margrethe Marstrand. Early life and career Marstrand was born on 10 August 1848 in Copenhagen, the son of toolmaker Theodor Christian Marstrand (1817–1863) and Anna Henriette Mathilde Jansen Tiaden (1822–1900). He graduated from Schnee-kloth's School in 1865. His father had just died and his economic situation therefore forced him to give up his dream of becoming an engineer to become a baker's apprentice instead. The family lived in a house on Amerikavej where the father also had his tool factory. Marstrand was after completing his apprenticeship in 1874 able to take over the old bakery at Købmagergade 19. The company prospered under his management. In 1885 and 1896, he replaced the old building at Købmagergade 19 with a new one designed by his brother, Sophus Marstrand (1860–1946), who was an architect. In 1904, he passed the bread factory on to his eldest son.