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P. Wulff

cigar Manufacturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ56281985
Source-derived summary

P. Wulff was a Danish manufacturer of cigars based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1868 and merged into Scandinavian Tobacco Group in 1975.

History

The company was founded by Peter Wulff (1841–1898) in September 1868. The factory was located at Vester Voldgade 11 but moved to new premises at Holbergsgade 18 in 1879. Wulff's brother-in-law, H. C. M. Heydorn (1851–1914), was a partner in the company from 1883 to 1888.

The company was afterWulff 's death in 1898 continued by his widow Emma f. Heydorn (1846–1926) . Peter and Emma Wulff's eldest son, Oskar Wulff (1875–1946), worked for the company and became a partner in 1901. The company relocated to Toldbodvej 6 (now Esplanaden 6–10) in 1907.

Peter and Emma Wulff's second eldest son, Paul Wulff (1877–1941), who had been part of the management since 1805, became a partner when his mother gave up her share of the company in 1913.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “P. Wulff” is cigar Manufacturer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wulff, cigar and Manufacturer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1868, 1975, 1841, 1898—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1868. For this dossier, Wulff, cigar and Manufacturer is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56281985. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1868, 1975, 1841 and 1898.

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This entry incorporates text from P. Wulff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.