Andreas I. Imhoff

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Portrait of Andreas I. Imhoff ( Nicolas Neufchâtel )

Andreas I. Imhoff (born November 29, 1491 in Nuremberg ; † October 24, 1579 ibid) was a Nuremberg patrician , businessman, banker and politician. In addition, he acted as the foremost slogan and imperial school of the imperial city of Nuremberg and as custodian of imperial regalia .

Life

He was the son of Hans V. Imhoff (1461-1522) and Ursula Lämmel († 1494), daughter of the councilor Johann Lämmel. Andreas grew up in a cosmopolitan home, his father was a close friend of his council colleagues Willibald Pirckheimer and Lazarus Spengler as well as the artists Albrecht Dürer , Adam Kraft and Eobanus Hessus , whom he also supported financially. Andreas' brother Hans VI. († 1526) married Felicitas, the eldest daughter of Willibald Pirckheimer, whose son Willibald Imhoff (1519–1580) was to become a great art collector. Andreas himself married Katharina Muffel (1467–1536) in 1486 , daughter of councilor Gabriel Muffel and Ursula Löffelholz .

From 1528 to 1570 Imhoff headed the Nuremberg Imhoff Society, which operated trade and financial transactions across Europe. With the exception of a foreign exchange deal with Venice, his father had mainly concentrated on trading in goods, while the Augsburg branch operated financial transactions. In 1513, the mansfeld copper was added to the traditional trade objects of the Imhoff house when Andreas' sister married Christoph Fürer . The company had offices in numerous other European cities. The saffron trade began to dominate over the traditional range of goods. In 1510 the Imhoff founded a trading post for the sale of Italian saffron in Bari , where a brother of Hans' V, Ludwig (1466-1533), had moved.

Andreas and his father formed a shopping cartel with the Nuremberg Welsers . In 1505/06 three Imhoffs, the Hirschvogel and the Welser took part in an expedition on the first trade trip of Upper German merchants to India . Under the direction of Andreas, the subsequent reorientation from purely eastern and eastern trade to predominantly western and overseas trade was completed. From 1540 the Imhoff became increasingly involved in financial transactions, especially with loans to the French, Portuguese and Spanish crowns and to the dukes of Bavaria.

literature

Medal with a portrait of Andreas I. Imhoff ( Valentin Maler )
  • Johann August von Eisenhart :  Imhoff, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 37-42.
  • Helga Jahnel: The Imhoff, a Nuremberg patrician and large merchant family: A study of the imperial city economic policy and cultural history at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age (1351-1579). Wuerzburg 1957.
  • Johannes Müller: The business trips and the profit shares of Endres Imhof the Elder as a partner in the trading company "Peter Imhof and Brothers" from 1508-1525. In: Quarterly for social and economic history. Volume 13, 1916, pp. 153-179.
  • Werner Schultheiß: The Nuremberg merchant and diplomat Andreas I. Imhoff and his time (1491-1579). In: Messages from the Nuremberg City Library. Volume 6, No. 1, 1957, pp. 3–12.
  • Dietmar Trautmann:  Imhof, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 148 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Imhoff (1461-1522) , in: Deutsche Biographie
personal data
SURNAME Imhoff, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imhoff, Andreas I .; Imhof, Endres I .; Imhoff, Endres I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant as well as foremost slogan and imperial school of the imperial city of Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1491
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1579
Place of death Nuremberg