Anton Fugger (10 June 1493 – 14 September 1560) was a German merchant, banker, and member of the

Fugger 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 patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. ...

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

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on 10 June 1493. At his death on 30 December 1525, Jakob Fugger bequeathed to his nephew Anton Fugger company assets totaling 2,032,652

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. He ran his uncle's business along with his brother Raymund and his cousin Hieronymus Fugger. As a result, he expanded trade to

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and the

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. He supported the Emperor Ferdinand I and Charles V. He was regarded as the "Prince of Merchants". His greatest achievement was to set the course for the future of the Fugger family. He prepared the next generation of the family through arranged marriages of his sons and daughters with the nobility.

Marriage and issue

In 1527, he married Anna Rehlinger. They had four sons and six daughters.

References

Family tree

1493 births 1560 deaths Anton 16th-century German businesspeople Merchants from the Holy Roman Empire {{Germany-business-bio-stub