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Karl, 5th Prince Fugger Von Babenhausen
Karl Georg Ferdinand Jakob Maria, 5th Prince Fugger of Babenhausen (15 January 1861 – 5 July 1925) was an Austrian landowner and officer. After serving in various Hussar regiments, he commanded the 3rd Hussar Regiment as Colonel during World War I. A member of the high nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a Mediatized Sovereign Prince of the Empire, he was made chamberlain at the Viennese imperial court and from 1906 until his death, was the head of the House of Fugger-Babenhausen, Lord of Boos, Heimertingen, Wald, Wellenburg, Burgwalden, and Markt. Early life Fugger von Babenhausen, who was known as "Cary", was born on 15 January 1861 in Klagenfurt. He was the son of Countess Friederike von Christalnigg von und zu Gillitzstein (1832–1888) and Karl Ludwig, 4th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (1829–1906), First President of the Chamber of Imperial Councillors. In 1885, his father succeeded his childless older brother, Leopold, 3rd Prince Fugger von Babenhausen, as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fugger Babenhausen - Tyroff HA
The House of Fugger () is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patrician (post-Roman Europe), patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser, Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market. This banking family replaced the House of Medici, Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the House of Habsburg whose rise to world power they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patricians of German free imperial city, free imperial cities, such as the Tucher von Simmelsdorf, Tuchers, they never converted to Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton, 2nd Prince Fugger Von Babenhausen
Anton Anselm Fürst Fugger von Babenhausen (13 January 1800 – 28 May 1836) was a German nobleman of the Fugger family. He was the titular Prince of the Principality of Babenhausen (mediatized to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806), in what is now the Landkreis Unterallgäu. Early life Anton was born on 13 January 1800 in Babenhausen. He was the eldest son of Anselm, 1st Prince Fugger von Babenhausen and Countess Maria Antonia Elisabetha von Waldburg zu Zeil-Wurzach (1774–1814). Among his siblings were Countess Maria Josepha Fugger von Babenhausen, who married their cousin, Leopold, 2nd Prince of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach. His paternal grandparents were Count Anselm Viktorian Fugger and Countess Maria Walburga von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Wolfegg. His paternal aunt, Countess Maria Walpurga Franziska Fugger von Babenhausen, married Hereditary Count Leopold von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (eldest son and heir apparent of Eberhard, 1st Prince of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach). Career On the death of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger Von Glött
Graf Carl Ernst Maria Fidel Alfred Anton Fugger von Glött, since 1914: Fürst Fugger von Glött (2 July 1859, Oberndorf am Lech – 25 April 1940, Kirchheim in Schwaben) was a member of the noble family of the Fugger. He was a jurist, president of the imperial council of the crown of Bavaria and royal colonel marshal of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Furthermore, he was Lord of Kirchheim in Schwaben, Lord of Oberndorf am Lech, Oberndorf and Count of Kirchberg and Weißenhorn. Early life Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött was the oldest of seven children and one of four sons of Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, Lord of Oberndorf am Lech, Oberndorf and Lord of Kirchheim in Schwaben, Kirchheim (1821–1885) and Maria Luise Alexandra, Freiin von Künsberg (1834–1901). He visited the clerical residential schools in Metten Abbey, Metten und Stella Matutina (Jesuit school), Feldkirch/Vorarlberg and studied laws at the universities Munich, Würzburg and Erlangen. Career As a jurist he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburg (district)
Augsburg (; Swabian German: ''Augschburg'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the city of Augsburg and the districts of Aichach-Friedberg, Landsberg, Ostallgäu, Unterallgäu, Günzburg, Dillingen and Donau-Ries. The city of Augsburg is not part of the district, but nonetheless is its administrative seat. History In Roman times the Via Claudia connected the city of Augsburg and Italy. In 233 the Alamanni broke through the limes, and the Roman rule over Swabia was ended. During the time of the Holy Roman Empire Augsburg was a bishopric principality. The city and the adjoining regions became subordinate to Bavaria after the Napoleonic Wars. The district of Augsburg was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Augsburg and Schwabmünchen and parts of other adjoining districts. More than twice as old as Nuremberg or Munich, Augsburg was founded in 15 B.C. by the Roman commanders Drusus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fugger Family
The House of Fugger () is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patrician (post-Roman Europe), patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser, Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market. This banking family replaced the House of Medici, Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the House of Habsburg whose rise to world power they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patricians of German free imperial city, free imperial cities, such as the Tucher von Simmelsdorf, Tuchers, they never converted to Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Jockey Club
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
