Johann Jakob Geymüller

Johann Jakob von Geymüller

Johann Jakob Geymüller (born September 6, 1760 in Basel ; † May 10, 1834 ) was a Swiss banker .

Life

Together with his brother Johann Heinrich Geymüller (1754-1824) 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 lords of Hollenburg and Eisenthür and 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.

The son of Johann Jakob's sister Ursula, Johann Heinrich von Geymüller the Younger , also worked in the bank.

literature

Geymüller, Johann Heinrich (the Elder) Frh. Von. 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. J and V, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-224-16051-9 , p. 931.
Stefan Hess : Geymüller [Geyllmüller] [from]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Gustav Otruba : Geymüller, Johann Jacob Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ). (with the wrong origin of Geymüller's wife Clara Forgang)
Egon Scheffer: Banking in Austria. Burgverlag, Vienna 1924, p. 87 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Georg Megerle von Müehlfeld: Austrian Adels Lexicon of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , (books.google, accessed on March 8, 2009).
^ Felix Czeike : Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis, page 150 (books.google, accessed on March 8, 2009).
↑ Memories of the youth of Konrad Mautner's sister, Käthy Breuer , agso.uni-graz.at, accessed on June 23, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Geymüller, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss banker
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1834

[1] Johann Georg Megerle von Müehlfeld: Austrian Adels Lexicon of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , (books.google, accessed on March 8, 2009).

[2] Felix Czeike : Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis, page 150 (books.google, accessed on March 8, 2009).

[3] Memories of the youth of Konrad Mautner's sister, Käthy Breuer , agso.uni-graz.at, accessed on June 23, 2015.