Gunni Busck

Busck was born on 9 June 1840 in Roskilde, the son of farmer August Busck (1806–69) and Johanne Marie Secher (1801–82). He wanted to become a medical doctor but had to give up his studies due to illness in an early age.[1]

Kjøbenhavns Mælkeforsyning, c. 1888

Busck was licensed as a businessman (grosserer) 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.[1]

In 1878, Busck was the founder of Københavns Mælkeforsyning. With its high standards for sanitary installations, quality control and supervision of livestock, it became a model for similar ventures in other Danish towns as well as abroad. A new factory was in 1884 inaugurated at Mælkevej (now Nyelandsvej) No. 25 in Frederiksberg. He also established Solbjerg Dairy at a neighbouring site.[1]

He retired from the butter company in 1915 and both Københavns Mælkeforsyning and Solbjerg Dairy were sold to Det Danske Mælke-Compagni in 1916.[1]

Busck married Charlotte Ann Hutchinson (14 May 1838 – 4 August 1921), a daughter of timber merchant and Swedish-Norwegian vice-consul in Leith Thomas H. and Isabella Wight (c. 1810–95), on 4 January 1887 in Edinburgh.[1] His brother, Theodor Busck, who was principal of Duebrødres Kloster in Roskilde, was the father of bookdealer Arnold Busck.[2]

He purchased the town mansion at Ny Kongensgade 3 in 1877.[3] 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.