Georg Bestle

[2] Bestle apprenticed as a wine merchant in his father's company from 1870 and then continued his education abroad where he spent most of his time in Bordeaux.

[3][4] Bestle was licensed as a vintner in 1882 and purchased a minor wine store in Nørre Voldgade.

In 1886 he also purchased Gottlieb Bonnesen's wine store at Skindergade 47 and moved his business to this address.

His wine house experienced a commercial breakthrough in 1888 and over the next few years developed into the largest company of its kind in Denmark.

He was a member and for a while president of the Association for the Preservation of Old Buildings (Foreningen til gamle bygningers Bevaring).

He was also a board member of Aktieselskabet til oprettelsen af billige pantelånerkontorer i København and a driving force behind the establishment of Understøttelsesfondet in 1924.

His second wife was Selma Anna Elisabeth Blaumüller Fleisner (30 April 1866 – 30 June 1947), a daughter of a weaver named Anton Georg F. (1833–1885) and Vilhelmine Caroline Schoch (c. 1840–1869).

Georg Bestle's former building at Skindergade 45–47 in Copenhagen
Bindesbøll's drawing of Bestle's house at Vedbæk Strandvej 506 (1897).