Benedikt Adam Liebert

Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von Liebenhofen (born January 3, 1731 in Augsburg ; † August 30, 1810 ibid) was a wholesale merchant and banker in Augsburg and the builder of the Schaezlerpalais there .

Life

Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert (1774)

Liebert was the son of the merchant and silver dealer Johann Adam Liebert (1697–1766), who immigrated from Biberach an der Riss and who maintained good relationships as a silver supplier to the Viennese and Munich courts. Within a very short time he brought his family to enormous wealth.

Benedikt Adam received an unusually good school education and played the flute masterfully, so that he even appeared in public academies together with the well-known violinist and composer Pietro Nardini .

He learned the trade first from his father, then at various Augsburg offices and finally in Arbon and Livorno , where he successfully traded bills of exchange on his own account until 1754 ; he also built up good trade relations with Venice . His main business thus became the coin, silver and bills of exchange trade.

In 1763, Benedikt Adam Liebert was ennobled when his father was elevated to the hereditary nobility and patriciate of Augsburg as an imperial knight with the title "Edler von Liebenhofen" . Endeavoring to ensure a befitting, prestigious life, he bought a patrician building in a central location on Augsburger Maximilianstrasse and had a modern rococo palace built in its place , which is now known nationwide under the name Schaezlerpalais and is one of the most magnificent city palaces in Germany.

Liebert had great ambitions in the newly established imperial mint in Günzburg , whereupon his bank received the taler monopoly together with three other trading houses in 1769. In addition, the new Lieberts city palace in Augsburg became the headquarters of the imperial and royal privileged foreign silver dealer .

Benedikt Adam Liebert's great business successes were recognized by Emperor Joseph II in 1770 when he was raised to the baron status. In the same year, his sister Marie Antoinette stopped in Liebert's new city palace in Augsburg on her bridal trip to France .

After ups and downs (in 1778 and 1803 he almost went bankrupt), Liebert learned two years before his death when he was appointed King. bay. Finance Council received one last honor from King Maximilian I before he died on August 30, 1810 in his hometown.

family

Benedikt Adam Liebert married Katharina Barbara Laire (1740–1820) on January 30, 1758 and had eight children with her, five of whom survived:

• Elisabeth Jakobina von Liebert (* around 1758); ⚭ November 13, 1778 Paul von Rad, silver merchant, family raised to the patriciate in 1767.
• Peter Adam Liebert von Liebenhofen (* May 12, 1759; † 1818); ⚭ October 19, 1789 Regina Luise Wolf.
• Johanna Regina Liebert von Liebenhofen (born August 6, 1763); ⚭ April 10, 1780 Johann Heinrich Edler von Schüle .
• Maria Anna Barbara Freiin Liebert von Liebenhofen (born March 18, 1768, † August 21, 1838); ⚭ April 2, 1793 Johann Lorenz Freiherr von Schaezler .
• Regina Barbara Liebert von Liebenhofen (born February 16, 1771); ⚭ Hans Gotthold von der Osten , Prussian captain.

literature

• Björn R. Kommer : The Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2003, ISBN 3-422-06437-0 .