Christian von Münch (banker, 1724)

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Christian II von Münch (born March 26, 1724 in Augsburg ; † May 1780 ibid) was a German banker in Augsburg.

Life

family

Christian II von Münch was a son of the Augsburg banker Christian I von Münch and his wife Anna Barbara, born. from Rauner. He married Sabina Barbara Ploss in Augsburg on September 13, 1751. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Banker and entrepreneur

In 1749, Münch and his brother Johann Carl von Münch took over their father's bank. Another partner became her brother-in-law and distant relative Heinrich Remigius Münch, who, however, left again in 1752 through death.

From 1653, the Münch brothers, like numerous other Augsburg banks, devoted themselves increasingly to the exchange business . The trade in Maria Theresa thalers played a major role . In the Levant in particular , these could be sold as goods at a profit. Individual houses supplied the kuk Münzamt Hall in Tirol with raw silver for the minting of Maria Theresa Talers on their own account. In the following year, the participating banks Köpf, Obwexer, Carli & Comp., Münch and Eberz & Comp. At the Meitinger customs, loads of silver bars were held up, which were mainly intended for the Hall in Tyrol Mint. The Vienna Court Chamber recognized the business model. She wanted to prevent third-party trading and sell the Levantine thalers on her own. Resourceful Augsburg bankers found a way to supply the Hall in Tirol Mint through middlemen in Marseille , Genoa and Venice . A leading role for the Münch bank can no longer be recorded. Nevertheless, the Münch brothers also benefited from the increasing importance of Augsburg as a money market . This reached its peak when a new imperial mint was set up in Günzburg in the margraviate of Burgau in 1764 .

The Münch brothers recognized the increasing importance of Augsburg for textile production early on. They bought especially from the manufacturer Johann Heinrich Schüles large positions in Rohkattun and sold them on fairs .

Under the management of the Münch brothers, the banking house was no longer one of the most important in southern Germany , as it was in the time of Christian I von Münch, but it still remained one of the many renowned exchange houses in Augsburg.

After Johann Carl von Münch and his brother Christian II von Münch died two years later in 1778, his son Christian III took over . von Münch took over the management. In 1808 he gave up banking and retired to his castles Hohenmühringen and Filseck . However, he and his descendants continued to appear in Augsburg as investors in their private assets.

Landowner

The Augsburg patrician and banker Georg Jacob von Köpf bought four small buildings in a prominent inner-city location in Augsburg in 1766/67 and in their place by the master builder Johann Gottfried Stumpe , who had already built the Schaezler Palace in Augsburg , in 1766/67 representative rococo building erected. The frescoes were executed by Matthäus Günther in 1768/69 . When Köpf had to file for bankruptcy in 1772 , construction was not yet complete. Münch acquired the building, which had the character of a city palace, from the bankruptcy estate and had the construction completed. There he not only relocated the business premises of the bank, but also his city residence. The Münch'sche Palais at today's Martin-Luther-Platz 5 was completely destroyed in a bomb attack on Augsburg in 1944.

Christian I. von Münch had left his castles and estates Aystetten , Filseck and Mühringen as entails to his male descendants. For Christian II von Münch these seem to have been of secondary importance. Although he acquired further small shares in the Hohenmühringen and Niedermühringen dominions, which were only partially owned by Münch, they did not come completely into the hands of the Münch family during his lifetime.

Benefactor

On May 15, 1780, Münch established a foundation intended to support mainly Protestant people in need , the purpose of which largely coincided with that of the foundation established by his brother Johann Carl von Münch on September 18, 1778. The substantial foundation capital amounted to 12,000 guilders each. Münch's son Christian III. von Münch took over the administration and increased the capital brought in by his father by 600 guilders. This foundation, like the one established by Christian I. von Münch, was later merged with the Protestant Welfare Foundation.

Appreciation

1971: Gebrüder-Münch-Strasse in Augsburg, Jakobervorstadt-Nord

literature

  • Gustav Heim: The return of the funds united in the Protestant charity fund of the city of Augsburg to their functional purposes. Prepared for the lecture in the magistrate . Publishing house of the Albr. Volkhart'schen Buchdruckerei, Augsburg 1862, p. 84 ff. Digitized
  • Ms. Eugen von Seida and Landensberg: Historical-statistical description of all church, school, educational and charitable institutions in Augsburg. From its origins to the most recent times . Vol. 2. Stagesche Buchhandlung , Augsburg / Leipzig 1811, p. 656 f. Digitized
  • Verlag des Tyroff'schen Wappencomtoirs: Gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen New Adelichen Wappenwerk . Vol. 1, Part 1. Verlag des Tyroffischen Wappencomtoirs, Nuremberg 1791, p. 115 ff. Digitized
  • Georg Wilhelm Zapf: Augsburg library or historical-critical-literary directory of all writings that concern the city of Augsburg and explain its history: An attempt . Vol. 1. Johann Melchior Lotter und Kompagnie, Augsburg 1795, p. 364 ff. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fr. Eugen von Seida and Landensberg: Historical-statistical description of all church, school, educational and charitable institutions in Augsburg. From its origins to the most recent times . tape 2 . Stagesche Buchhandlung, Augsburg / Leipzig 1811, p. 656 f .
  2. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Zapf: Augsburg library or historical-critical-literary directory of all writings which concern the city of Augsburg and explain its history: An attempt . tape 1 . Johann Melchior Lotter and Company, Augsburg 1795, p. 364 ff .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Zorn: Trade and Industrial History of Bavarian Swabia. 1648-1870 . In: Economic, social and cultural history of Swabian entrepreneurship. Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Studies on the history of Bavarian Swabia . tape 6 . Verlag der Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1961, p. 46 ff .
  4. ^ Wolfgang Zorn: Trade and Industrial History of Bavarian Swabia. 1648-1870 . In: Economic, social and cultural history of Swabian entrepreneurship. Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Studies on the history of Bavarian Swabia . tape 6 . Verlag der Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1961, p. 119 .
  5. ^ Gabriele von Trauchburg / Wolfgang Zorn: Houses and gardens of Augsburg patricians . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-422-06306-8 , pp. 47 ff .
  6. ↑ Control center of world trade in the 16th century. In: Open Monument Day 2002. City of Augsburg, 2002, p. 30 , accessed on June 29, 2017 .
  7. ^ A b Günther Grünsteudel / Wolfgang Wüst: Münch, bankers family. In: Augsburger Stadtlexikon, 2nd edition, print edition. 1998, Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  8. ^ Günter Meissner: Matthäus Günther . In: Saur's general artist lexicon . tape 65 , Guerring-Guntbaldus. KG Saur Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23032-5 , p. 67 ff .
  9. ↑ Verlag des Konrad Tyroffischen Wappencomtoirs (ed.): Gender and coat of arms description for the Tyroffischen new aristocratic coat of arms . tape 1 , no. 1 . Verlag des Konrad Tyroffischen Wappencomtoirs, Nuremberg 1791, p. 115 ff .
  10. ↑ Gustav Heim: The return of the funds united in the Protestant charity fund of the city of Augsburg to their functional purposes. Prepared for the lecture in the magistrate . Publishing house of the Albr. Volkhart'schen Buchdruckerei, Augsburg 1862, p. 84 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Münch, Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münch, Christian; Münch on Aystetten, Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker in Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1780
Place of death augsburg