WM. BRANDT'S SONS & CO.: The Story of a Family Trading Company:The merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen year old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel. Trading flourished in a variety of commodities including timber, flax, skins and sugar, and in 1805 Wilhelms older brother Emanuel Heinrich moved to London and set up the agency for the Archangel business which