The story of the Fuggers is absolutely amazing: Jakob Fugger was the outstanding business
genius of the Renaissance. He financed the imperial thrones of Maximilian I and Charles V
minted coins for the popes and created a major European banking trading mining and precious
metal corporation. His nephew and successor Anton acquired even more wealth. Anton Fugger
provided credit to the House of Habsburg to kings and to the Medici. Never again was one
company to have such enormous political and economic influence. Still today one can hear about
the Age of the Fuggers. The Fugger family were known as the German Medici because of their
wealth their love of the arts and their investment in splendour. This travel guide The Fugger
Dynasty in Augsburg. Merchants Mining Entrepreneurs Bankers and Benefactors with a wealth of
photos and informative texts takes you on a trip through Augsburg the city of the Fuggers to
the world-famous Fuggerei the Fugger castles and churches. The places of interest described
here all bear witness to a major chapter in European economic and social history.
