Johann Heinrich Geymüller
Johann Heinrich Geymüller (born May 17, 1754 in Basel , † April 1, 1824 in Vienna ) was a Swiss- Austrian banker .
Life
Together with his brother Johann Jakob Geymüller , he entered the banking house of the Swiss Peter Ochs in Vienna, which they continued to run under the name Geymüller & Co after his death in 1804 . Among other things, the bank raised the amount of 32 million francs that Napoleon asked for as a contribution after the French occupation of Vienna in 1806.
The Geymüllers were among the pioneers of Vienna's Second Society in the first half of the 19th century. In addition to the bank, they owned other properties in Lower Austria and Vienna, as well as in Bohemia . Johann Jakob owned the Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf , which at that time did not yet belong to Vienna. Johann Heinrich owned the Pötzleinsdorf Castle . The brothers, who were ennobled in 1810, also owned a palace in Vienna's Wallnerstrasse, the Palais Caprara-Geymüller . This palace was one of the focal points of social life in Vienna in Vormärz . This is how Franz Grillparzer met his eternal bride Kathi Fröhlich , whose sister was the music teacher of the Geymüller's daughters.
Another castle in Bohemia was the castle in Kamenitz . Johann Heinrich set up a library there. This was under a descendant Rudolf von Geymüller (* February 24, 1848 in Vienna; † January 14, 1923 in Hollenburg ) and again by his son Georg (* December 1, 1891 in Hollenburg; † April 16, 1962 in Nussdorf ob der Traisen ) expanded. Today it is in the administration of the Prague National Museum
Johann Heinrich von Geymüller is considered to be the co-founder of the Austrian National Bank . In 1817 he first became a member of the first board of directors and shortly afterwards vice governor of the National Bank.
Johann Heinrich was married to Barbara Schmid, with whom he had eight daughters and two sons. The majority of these children were born before Geymüller's marriage to Schmid. The son of Johann Heinrich's sister Ursula, Johann Heinrich von Geymüller the Younger , also worked in the bank.
In 1894, Geymüllergasse in Vienna- Währing (18th district) was named after him.
literature
- Geymüller Johann Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 436.
- Günther Chaloupek , Peter Eigner, Michael Wagner: Vienna: Economic history, 1740–1938. Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-224-16051-9 , p. 931.
- Egon Scheffer: Banking in Austria. Burgverlag, Vienna 1924, p. 87 f.
- Stefan Hess : Geymüller [Geyllmüller] [from]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gustav Otruba : Geymüller, Johann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Heinrich Geymüller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Geymüller in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg Megerle of Müehlfeld: Austrian aristocracy encyclopedia of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , accessed on March 8 in 2009.
- ^ Felix Czeike : Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis , page 150
- ↑ Memories of the youth of Konrad Mautner's sister, Käthy Breuer, accessed on June 23, 2015.
- ^ Handbook of German historical book stocks in Europe , Münster 1997, p. 94 (google books, accessed on March 10, 2009).
- ↑ ÖBL 2, 1954, page 436
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geymüller, Johann Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Austrian banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1824 |
| Place of death | Vienna |