Hedevig Johanne Bagger

Who was Hedevig Johanne Bagger?

Hedevig Johanne Bagger was a Danish inn-keeper and postmaster.

Daughter of merchant Rasmus Langeland and Anne Marie Jensdatter and married in 1761 to estate administrator Marcus Marcussen Bagger.

Bagger managed the most successful inn of Korsör on Slagelse from 1775. She applied for her inn to be the local post office in 1782 and was in 1798 named royal postmaster. She was unique in her position: there were female postmasters before her, but they were women who inherited their office from their spouses, while Bagger was the first woman to have been granted the position herself. She retired from the postal office in 1810.