Hans Peter Prior

[1] Prior attended Borgerdyd School and later received a technical education in C. P. Jürgensens Mekaniske Etablissement which was later supplemented with a couple of years of theoretical studies.

[2] Upon his return to Copenhagen in 1891, Prior started a small-scale production of cables and electrical wires in a basement at Store Kannikestræde 14.

On 21 February 1898, it was merged with another enterprise as Aktieselskabet Nordiske Kabel- og Traadfabriker with Prior as the merger's first managing director.

During the world war, he also held a number of chairmanships in the special committees that were set up to distribute the imported goods among the individual industrial enterprises, and after the establishment of the German submarine blockade, he traveled with director Christian Cold to America to obtain an arrangement with the United Nations.

[2] In January 1920, when decease forced Alexander Foss to retire, Prior returned to the post as president of the Industry Council.

As a result of his involvement in the Landmandsbanken affair, Prior resigned in 1923 as managing director of Nordisk Kabel- og Traad, just as he also had to give up his post as chairman of the Industrial Council.

[2] After serving his sentence, in 1925 Prior established the Danish Galosche- and Gummifabrik (now Codan Rubber) in Køge, He was the managing director of the company until 1931.

She was the daughter of landowner and hotel owner Niels Adolph Christoph K. (1868–1936) and Sarah Henriette adopt.