Hans Fugger ''von der Lilie'', full name ''Hans, Freiherr Fugger, Herr zu Kirchheim, Glött, Mickhausen, Stettenfels und Schmiechen'', (4 September 1531 – 19 April 1598; buried in

Kirchheim in Schwaben Kirchheim or Kirchheim in Schwaben ( engl. ''Kirchheim in Swabia'') is a municipality and a market town in the district of Unterallgäu in the region of Swabia (Schwaben) in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. The town was greatly influenc ...

) was a German arts patron, businessman and politician of the

Fugger The House of Fugger () is a German upper bourgeois family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and vent ...

family.

Life

He was the second son of

Anton Fugger 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 o ...

(1493–1560) and Anna Rehlinger. As befitted the family's new standing, he and his brothers

Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 p ...

(1529–1597), Hieronimus (1533–1573) and Jakob (1542–1598) received a cultural and philosophical education as well as a mercantile one. Throughout his life Hans served the family's commercial interests in different areas, ranging from the Netherlands to Spain to his native Augsburg. After his father Anton's death in 1560 he and his brothers managed the now-substantial family estates and business together. In 1573 the brothers divided the business up between them, with Hans getting (among others) the lands in Kirchheim,

Glött Glött is a municipality in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria in Germany. History Glött castle and estates were purchased by Anton Fugger in 1537. The Lordship of Glött became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806. The current municipa ...

Burg Stettenfels Stettenfels Castle is a medieval castle above the town of Untergruppenbach in Heilbronn. It was once owned by Hans Fugger and is now used for cultural events. History The castle was built in the 11th century, probably at about the same time as ...

and Duttenstein. In 1583 Hans and his brothers had their lands made

Imperial State An Imperial State or Imperial Estate ( la, Status Imperii; german: Reichsstand, plural: ') was a part of the Holy Roman Empire with representation and the right to vote in the Imperial Diet ('). Rulers of these Estates were able to exercise si ...

s in the Schwäbischen Reichsgrafenkollegium and raised to Kreisstand status in the Swabian Imperial Circle. On his brother Marx's death in 1597, Hans was elected head of the whole Fugger business. Hans was a great patron of the arts, partly to impress his business clients, showing off his collections in his Burg Stettenfels, the Fuggerschloss Kirchheim and what are now known as the ''Badstuben'' in the

Fuggerhäuser The Fuggerhäuser (''Fugger houses'') is a complex of houses on the Maximilianstraße in Augsburg, built for the Fugger family of businessmen. It is now owned by the Fugger-Babenhausen branch of the Fugger family who resides at Wellenburg castle ...

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. His correspondence is also to be found in

cartulary A cartulary or chartulary (; Latin: ''cartularium'' or ''chartularium''), also called ''pancarta'' or ''codex diplomaticus'', is a medieval manuscript volume or roll (''rotulus'') containing transcriptions of original documents relating to the fo ...

s now in the Fuggerarchiv in

Dillingen an der Donau Dillingen or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen at the Danube) is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative center of the district of Dillingen. Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages ...

- precises of these have recently been made available.

Family tree

Bibliography

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek The Bavarian State Library (german: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called ''Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis'' before 1919) in Munich is the central " Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the bigg ...

München: ''Die Fugger im Bild . Selbstdarstellung einer Familiendynastie der Renaissance'', Ausstellungskatalog; Quaternio Verlag Luzern 2010 * Johannes Burkhardt: ''Das Ehrenbuch der Fugger'', Faksimile, Transkription und Kommentar, 2 Bände, Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2004 * Christl Karnehm: ''Die Korrespondenz Hans Fuggers von 1566–1594. Regesten der Kopierbücher aus dem Fuggerarchiv''. München 2003, * Franz Karg: ''Schloss Kirchheim Kunstführer.'' 2. Auflage. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2001, * Georg Lill: ''Hans Fugger (1531–1598) und die Kunst. Ein Beitrag zur Spätrenaissance in Süddeutschland''. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908
Digitalisat als PDF
* Johannes Burkhardt/Franz Karg (Hg): Die Welt des Hans Fugger (1531–1598) Materialien zur Geschichte der Fugger Bd. 1. Wissner, Augsburg 2007, * Mark Häberlein: ''Die Fugger. Geschichte einer Augsburger Familie (1367–1650).''

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, Stuttgart 2006,

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Genealogical data on Hans Fugger
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