Georg Ilsung

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Georg Ilsung on a painting by a contemporary painter, around 1570

Georg Ilsung (* around 1510 in Augsburg ; † December 4, 1580 there ) was a Swabian governor , financial broker and Reichspfennigmeister from 1566 until his death in 1580.

Life

Georg Ilsung was born into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Augsburg , which is said to have lived there since the 12th century. The Ilsung family has been able to acquire a good deal of wealth for several generations and had close ties to the local elites, but also to the Habsburgs.

Already at a young age Georg Ilsung, like his father Achilles Ilsung and his later father-in-law Johann Löble von Greinburg, worked as a financial agent for the Emperors Ferdinand I , Maximilian II and Rudolf II . This was made possible in particular by the local merchants in Augsburg, who had a lot of capital.

Georg Ilsung was probably in the service of Ferdinand I from 1536 onwards, mainly exercising finance-related activities, receiving a salary of 500 guilders per year from 1544 and since then also holding the title of imperial council.

His wife Anna Löble on a painting by a contemporary painter, around 1570

On November 27, 1543, he married Anna Löble in Augsburg, who died in 1571.

In 1544 he succeeded his father as bailiff in Enns . There he settled weavers from Swabia in the years 1548 to 1550 in order to build up an exportable production of barchents , but this failed. After the castle bailiwick was exchanged for the bailiwick of Swabia, which his brother-in-law Georg Gienger had owned until then, he had to manage the bailiwick, which had come to the Habsburgs as pledge in 1486. Despite his position as governor, he remained in the imperial service and was financial advisor to Archdukes Ferdinand II of Tyrol and Charles of Austria .

At the Reichstag in Worms in 1495, the introduction of a general Reich tax, the common penny , was decided. The court pfennig master was charged with bringing in this new tax . From 1553, Ilsung was referred to as the "Imperial Pfennig Master", and in 1566 Ilsung officially took over the office of the Upper German Reichspfennig Master, after he had undermined the position of the actual incumbent Wolf Haller and took over some of his responsibilities from the late 1550s .

In 1568 Emperor Maximillian II raised Ilsung to the rank of Imperial Knight, and a year later he was awarded the (Little) Palatinate, which gave him a. a. authorized to issue coats of arms to citizens in the name of the emperor , to legitimize illegitimate children and adoptions, to crown poets, to award the doctorate or to appoint notaries.

Georg Ilsung died in 1580, and his son Maximilian Ilsung succeeded him in the office of the Upper German Reichspfennigmeister. Just three years later he was replaced by Georg Ilsung's nephew Johann Achilles Ilsung . This in turn was replaced by Rudolf II in 1589 due to insufficient credit and deficiencies in the collection of imperial aid by the more promising Zacharias Geizkofler .

Georg Ilsung is recorded in the records with around 283,000 guilders in the period from 1549 to 1577 as one of the emperors' largest lenders. In addition, he is listed with over 430,000 guilders in indemnity letters or insurance. In the case of the indemnity letters, however, it is not clear whether money actually flowed here or whether they only contained the promise to compensate for a loss.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilians II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 38 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  2. ^ Friedrich Blendinger:  Ilsung, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 142 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilians II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 35 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Volkhard Huth: An Augsburg coat of arms of the 16th century and its issuer . In: InstItut für PersonalgeschIchte (Ed.): Information from the InstItut für PersonalgeschIchte . Volume XIV, December 2011, p. 2 ff . ( Personengeschichte.de [PDF]).
  5. ↑ a b Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 39 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Lukas Winder: The creditors of Ferdinand I, Maximilians II and Rudolf II (1521-1612) . Vienna 2013, p. 10 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Ilsung, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swabian governor, finance broker and Reichspfennigmeister
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1580
Place of death augsburg