Anton Fugger

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Portrait of Anton Fugger (by Hans Maler zu Schwaz )
Wife Anna Rehlinger

Anton Fugger von der Lilie (born June 10, 1493 in Augsburg , † September 14, 1560 in Augsburg) was a German merchant and banker .

In memory of the influential merchant, the city of Augsburg named the Lech Bridge, which was completed in 1997, the Anton Fugger Bridge .

life and work

Anton was born as the third and youngest son of Georg Fugger and his wife Regina Imhof in Augsburg in 1493. In 1525 he took over the Fugger trading empire from his childless uncle, Jakob “the Rich” , together with his brother Raymund and his cousin Hieronimus. Along with Jakob Fugger, Anton Fugger was the most important member of this family, which within a few generations had become the richest family in the world at that time.

In 1527 Anton Fugger married the Augsburg patrician daughter Anna Rehlinger (see von Rehlingen ). The marriage resulted in four sons and six daughters. In 1530 he was raised to imperial count by Charles V. Two years later, Raymund and Hieronimus recognized him as the head of the company. As a result, he expanded the Fugger trade to Buenos Aires , Mexico and the West Indies . He supported the emperors Karl V and Ferdinand I and was considered the "prince of merchants". He conducted his business according to the motto “I guess it's important to keep quiet!”.

One of his greatest achievements was setting the course for the future of the "Fugger name and tribe". So he changed the economic basis with a greatly increased land and lordship. Finally, he prepared the coming social role of the family by specifically marrying his sons and daughters with the landed gentry . He thus established the influence and increased wealth and reputation of the Fugger family.

Fugger also worked as a patron , for example for the humanist and editor Georg von Logau , who in February 1534 dedicated the first Halieutica edition of Ovid to him in a collection of hunting poems .

progeny

The following sons and daughters emerged from the marriage with Anna Rehlinger:

  • Marx (Markus) (1529–1597) ∞ Countess Sibylla von Eberstein (1531–1589)
  • Anna (1530-1549)
  • Hans (Johannes) (1531–1598) ∞ Elisabeth Freiin Notthracht von Weißenstein
  • Catharina (1532–1585) ∞ Count Jacob von Montfort
  • Jeronimus (1533–1573)
  • Regina (1537–1584) ∞ Wolfgang Dietrich Graf zu Hardegg
  • Susanna (1539–1588) ∞ Balthasar Trautson Freiherr von Matrai
  • Jakob (1542–1598) ∞ Anna Ilsung von Tratzberg
  • Maria (1543–1583) ∞ Michael von Eitzing
  • Veronika (1545–1590) ∞ Gaudenz zu Spaur

literature

Web links

Commons : Anton Fugger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg von Logau (ed.): Poetae tres egregii nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratii […] de inuatione Lib. I, P. Ovidii Nasonis Halieuticon liber acephalus. M. Aurelii Olympii Nemesiani Cynegeticon Lib. I Eiusdem carmen Bucolicum. T. Calphurnii Sivuli Bucolica. Adriani Cardinalis venatio. Steyner, Augsburg 1534.
  2. ^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2884.
personal data
SURNAME Fugger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1493
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1560
Place of death augsburg