Broge greatly expanded exports to England and did significant work in training and educating farmers to produce higher quality products.

While the city council started working on establishing a public gas company instead Hans Broge boarded the same ship as the English negotiator and en route to England bought the gasworks.

On 5 May 1881 the city council received a letter from Broge stating that the condition for paying the disputed amount was that two projects had to be realized.

The city council accepted his offer and both bridge and rail line was inaugurated in 1884,[4] 15 years old he became an apprentice at the prominent merchant Harboe Meulengracht in Aarhus.

Due to his connections in Germany and his brother who worked as a merchant in Hamburg he was able to continue trading during the German sieges of Denmark in 1849 and 1864 which proved a substantial advantage.

[4] In 1864 Broge had turned his attention to England and started exports of agricultural products, especially butter, in return for coal and other raw materials.

Broge also co-founded Aarhus Palmekærnefabrik and Korn- og Foderstof Kompagniet which became major employers in the city and owned a number of smaller businesses such as 2 brickyards, 3 farms and 4 merchant ships.

Hans Broge, along with his son-in-law Otto Mønsted, started various projects to educate farmers in order to heighten quality of their products.

Broge was married to Inger Kirstine Brock on 10 October 1849 and the couple had 6 children; 3 daughters and 3 sons.

In the 1860s the nickname "King Hans" is seen for the first time and during 25th wedding anniversary in October 1874 flags were raised across the city.