Peter Mærsk Møller (/mɛərsk ˈmuːlər/ mairsk MOO-lər; 22 September 1836 – 9 February 1927) was a Danish sea captain and the father of Arnold Peter Møller, founder of the Maersk corporation, and grandfather of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who made Maersk the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world.
[1] He passed his merchant officer's examination at Flensborg Navigation School and became a captain in 1861.
[2] After the Second Schleswig War in 1864, Rømø, as Flensborg, passed under Prussian rule (and from 1871 German territory; Rømø remained so until 1920, and Flensborg – now Flensburg – still is a German city), so Captain Mærsk Møller moved to Dragør, only a few kilometres to the east of Copenhagen.
[citation needed] He did so in 1884, as he moved from Dragør to Svendborg, on the island of Fyn.
Møller to start his own: Dampskibsselskabet af 1912, which eventually became the Maersk business conglomerate.