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Anton Fugger (10 June 1493 – 14 September 1560) was a German merchant and member of the Fugger family. He was a nephew of Jakob Fugger . Biography. Anton was the third and youngest son of George Fugger and Regina Imhof. He was born in Augsburg on 10 June 1493.
Jakob Fugger morreu em 1525 sendo considerado na altura um humanista e benfeitor. O herdeiro da sua fortuna foi o seu sobrinho Anton Fugger, em 1526, que manteve negócios com a Casa de Habsburgo e interferiu na eleição de Fernando I. Foi durante a gestão de Anton que a fortuna dos Fugger atingiu um nível mais elevado.
Under his successor, Anton, the firm's operations began to move increasingly to Spain. The firm ceased its activities there in 1650. With profits from commerce, three generations of Fuggers acquired extensive properties and estates. Beginning with Anton Fugger, these became the family's new economic and social foundation.
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Founding
The founder of the family was Hans Fugger, a weaver at Graben, near the Swabian Free City of Augsburg. The last name was originally spelled "Fucker" – the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moved to Augsburg in 1367, with the local tax register laconically noting Fucker advenit, "Fugger has arrived".He married Klara Widolf and became an Augsburg citizen. After Klara's death, he married Elizabeth Gattermann. He joined the weaver's guild...
Jakob Fugger "the Rich"
Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger, born in 1459, was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. In 1498, he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg (German: Großbürger zu Augsburg). They had no children, but this marriage gave Jakob the opportunity to elevate to Grand Burgher of Augsburg and later allowed him to pursue a seat on the city council (Stadtrat) of Augsburg. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roma...
Later years
Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger, son of his elder brother Georg. Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560. In 1525, the Fuggers were granted the revenues from the Spanish orders of knighthood together with the profits from mercury and silver mines. The formerly rich yield of the Tirolean and Hungarian mines decreased, but Anton established new trade ties with Peru and Chile and started mining ventures in Sweden and Norway. He was involved in the slave tra...
Kirchberg and Weißenhorn with Wullenstetten and Pfaffenhofen (Roth)(1507)Kluger, Martin (2014). The Fugger Dynasty in Augsburg – Merchants, Mining Entrepreneurs, Bankers and Benefactors. Augsburg: context verlag. ISBN 978-3-939645-74-0.Steinmetz, Greg (2015). The Richest Man Who Ever Lived. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-8855-9.After his death in 1525, Jakob Fugger's nephew and successor Anton moved more of the firm's business to Spain and invested in the purchase of lands and manorial estates. In the following decades, Anton's forward-looking business practices ensured the firm's economic viability.
Anton Fugger von der Lilie (* 10. Juni 1493 in Augsburg; † 14. September 1560 ebenda) war ein deutscher Kaufmann, Reichsgraf und Bankier . Zum Gedenken an den einflussreichen Kaufmann gab die Stadt Augsburg der 1997 fertiggestellten Lechbrücke den Namen Anton-Fugger-Brücke .
Anton Fugger gives up his share in Spanish commerce and plans the dissolution of the firm. 1550 In his will, Anton Fugger tells his sons to travel and study foreign languages so that they might find »honourable positions« in the imperial or royal courts.
