Sunday died the previous forsikringsboss Peter Zobel at the age of 81 years.
As a successful director of Codan and landowner, he was a part of the upper class, and participated in royal feasts, just as he was the same and jagtkammerat with prince Henrik and Christian Kjaer.
With the kind of acquaintances, he pulled out the headlines in the country’s journals, together with his wives and children, but he has never been to find in the heavy end of the economic upper class.
The states former award-winning journalist Søren Jakobsen, who has written several books about the upper classes, including ‘Overklasseliv – From the gentry to the power elite and the jet set’, which deals with, among other things, Peter Zobel.
– The money, the Sable had, some, as he himself has scraped together, and it is not the big amount, when you are talking the upper class, he says.
Bonkammeraterne prince Pignatelli di Strongoli, Peter Zobel, Christian Kjær, prince Henry and count Ditlev Knuth-Wintherfeldt hunting on Bornholm earlier in 2017. Photo: Polfoto/David Høgsholt
Mortgaged for millions
Peter Sable, however, had several significant ownerships.
In 1995 he sold Gyllingnæs Goods from and wrote below at the purchase of Bækkeskov Gods in Næstved Municipality the following year. The estate on Zealand cost 50 million dollars, and according to the public evaluation is still in the price range.
nevertheless, the Sable mortgaged property 71,8 million dollars, so he has mortgages in the estate of 34,7 million dollars.
As participants in the events as prince Henrik’s 70th birthday was Henriette and Peter Zobel often and often in the coloured magazines. Photo: Polfoto/Thomas Sjørup
Peter Zobel also widened the area around the estate in 2013, where he bought a lystgård close to of the land for 3.5 million dollars and added thus thousands of additional square feet to his estate.
he also had a number of companies. Among other things, that the owner of a Vestas wind turbine in Germany. In addition, he has shares in a Ilva in Aarhus, and he is the sole owner of an investment firm in 2016, had a fortune of 36 million kroner.
But he is still far from the country’s billionaires and dobbeltmilliardærer, says Søren Jakobsen
He did not play in any big economic league, the secret behind Peter Zobels overklasseliv was that Codan stood for his great jagtareal in Lille Vildmose and Valdemar Slot. It was not his own, says Soren Jakobsen.
– It was Codan, who bought and traded them. As was his large villa in Vedbæk tennis courts and the entire baduljen Codans villa, and it was sold, when he moved. It has been very on the company’s expense, he adds.
Peter Zobel in his element. He was also a well-known hunter, who could lay down roe deer with bow and arrow.
