Georg Fugger

Georg Fugger. Colored copper engraving from Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum imagines , 1618.

Georg Fugger von der Lilie (* 1453 in Augsburg ; † 1506 there ) was a German merchant of the Fugger family.

Georg Fugger was born in 1453 as the son of Jakob Fugger the Elder and his wife Barbara, geb. Bäsinger , born in Augsburg . It was clear early on that Georg would become a businessman. In 1486 he and Regina Imhoff , a Nuremberg patrician daughter , married . In 1488 the son Markus (Marx) was born, one year later the son Raymund followed . This was to become the progenitor of the later counts of the Fugger lines "von Kirchberg" and "von Weißenhorn ". The son Anton , born in 1493, later head of the family business and successor to Jakob Fugger the Rich, became the progenitor of the later princely Fugger lines " von Glött " and "von Babenhausen ". Georg Fugger is thus the ancestor of all members of the house "Fugger von der Lilie" who are living today. The company "Ulrich Fugger und seine Gesellschaft" became the first "open trading company" in Europe and soon changed the name to "Ulrich Fugger and Gebrüder von Augsburg". Her were Ulrich (Director of the parent company in Augsburg), George (Head of the Nuremberg branch) involved and Jacob (development of international relations). In 1494 alone the company made a profit of over 54,000 guilders. At that time there was also the other Fugger company, the " Fugger vom Reh ", which would go bankrupt a short time later.

Georg Fugger, together with his brothers, is also the founder of the Augsburger Fuggerei , the oldest social housing estate in the world that still exists today. Georg Fugger died in Augsburg in 1506.

literature

• Franz Herre : The Fuggers in their time. 12th edition. Wißner, Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-89639-490-8 .
• Martin Kluger : The Fugger. The German Medici in and around Augsburg. Context, Augsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939645-13-9 .
• Martha Schad : The women of the Fugger family. With gentle power to world fame. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-23818-2 .

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