Johann Lorenz von Schaezler

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Johann Lorenz Schaezler

Johann Lorenz Freiherr von Schaezler (born September 15, 1762 in Ansbach , † March 19, 1826 in Augsburg ) was a German entrepreneur and banker. He was raised to baron in 1821 and founded the von Schaezler family .

Live and act

He was the son of the margravial court, town and country surgeon Wilhelm Friedrich Schaezler and Laurentia Frederike Loesch. Johann Lorenz Schaezler attended the Protestant grammar school in his hometown, which he left at the age of 15 to begin a business apprenticeship in Frankfurt am Main . From 1781 he worked in a Frankfurt exchange and department store and four years later in a cloth factory in Aachen . He built an embroidery factory in Aachen. In 1789 he took over the lead mines containing copper and silver in Trarbach on the Moselle . The company was unsuccessful and he lost almost all of his fortune.

After the financial failure, Johann Lorenz Schaezler joined the Augsburg banking house of Benedikt Adam Freiherr Liebert von Liebenhofen as an assistant in 1791 , whose daughter Marianna Barbara he married two years later. In 1795 he was accepted into the management of the Liebert banking house. On January 1st, 1800 Johann Lorenz Schaezler founded his own bank, which quickly became very successful. By 1812 he had increased his fortune twentyfold. In 1821 he bought the palace built in Augsburger Maximilianstrasse from his father-in-law , which today bears his name.

Schaezler Palace

The banker also granted loans to the Bavarian royal family from 1807, for which he was appointed royal finance councilor. In 1821 he was raised to the hereditary baron status and then acquired the court brands Sulzemoos near Dachau and Scherneck near Augsburg. He also bought Thyrnau Castle with a brewery near Passau .

Baron von Schaezler, a staunch representative of the constitutional monarchy , belonged to a delegation from the imperial city of Augsburg and, as such, negotiated several times with Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1818 he was elected to the board of directors of the municipal representatives, and also to the deputy of the city of Augsburg in the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian Estates Assembly.

Johann Lorenz Freiherr von Schaezler was involved in the charitable field. For example, he supported the Augsburg soup house, the Protestant orphanage and the general hospital with considerable sums and financed the free treatment in the poor institution. In 1822 the baron initiated the founding of today's Stadtsparkasse Augsburg .

Shortly before his death, the baron had accepted his sons Ferdinand Benedikt Freiherr von Schaezler and Ludwig Karl Freiherr von Schaezler as partners in his bills of exchange and goods dealership.

progeny

Johann Lorenz von Schaezler married Maria Anna Barbara Freiin Liebert von Liebenhofen on April 2, 1793 in Nördlingen (born March 18, 1768 in Augsburg; † August 21, 1838 there). The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Ferdinand Benedikt Freiherr von Schaezler (born June 8, 1795 in Augsburg, † August 1, 1856 in Munich); ⚭ 1819 Emilie von Froelich
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Schaezler (* 1797 - 13 November 1887); ⚭ March 21, 1833 Wilhelmine Louise von Stetten
  • Friederike Elisabeth von Schaezler (born December 31, 1798 in Augsburg; † October 10, 1883 ibid); ⚭ June 18, 1816 Markus Paulus von Schnurbein-Meitingen
  • Ludwig Carl von Schaezler (* 1800; † 1861)
  • Marianne Caroline Johanna von Schaezler (born November 30, 1801 in Augsburg, † December 15, 1871 in Munich)
  • Catharina Augusta Emilie von Schaezler (born August 24, 1803 in Augsburg)
  • Laura von Schaezler (born October 10, 1810 in Augsburg, † December 20, 1834)

literature

  • Hans Frei, Barbara Beck (ed.): Life pictures. History and art in portraits from Swabia , Oberschönenfeld 2002, pp. 260–261

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the Evangelical Orphanage and Klauckehaus Foundation Augsburg at www.sewk-augsburg.de , accessed on October 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schaezler, Johann Lorenz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaezler, Johann Lorenz Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1826
Place of death augsburg