Name Axel Eitzen Died 1937 | Role 1851–1937 | |
Axel Camillo Eitzen (30 January 1851 – 1937) was a Norwegian ship-owner.
He was born in Drøbak as a son of postmaster Johan Laur. Eitzen and Cecilia Catharina Cappelen . In 1879 he married ship-owner's daughter Caroline Johanne Hansen.
He finished school in Sarpsborg and started a career at sea in 1867. He became a shipmaster and worked as such until 1890. From then he was a full-time ship-owner and shipbroker. In 1883 he had founded the company Camillo Eitzen, which grew to a major corporation.
He was a board member of Kristiania Port Authority from 1905 to 1911, and of the Nordisk Defence Club. He died in 1937. His son Axel Camillo Eitzen became co-owner in the family company, which was later renamed Tschudi & Eitzen, and another son Johan emigrated to Uruguay to pursue enterprises there. He was the Norwegian General Consul in Montevideo Uruguay. He married Maria Magdalena Ramayon and had a son Johan and twin girls Elsa and Maria Magdalena (Maggie) Eitzen. Elsa Eitzen married and divorced Carlos Deus and had a girl named Maria Cristina Deus Eitzen. Elsa remarried Dirk van der Kaay and had a girl named Solveig van der Kaay Eitzen.