Georg Fugger

A son of Jakob Fugger the Elder and his wife Barbara Bäsinger (whose sons also included Ulrich and Jakob the Younger), Georg was born and died in Augsburg; it became clear early in life that he would become a merchant.

The firm was so successful that Georg was able to commission his portrait from the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini in 1474.

In 1494, the firm made over 54,000 Guilders and the three brothers were also co-founders of the Fuggerei, the oldest social housing project in the world.

In 1486, he married Regina Imhoff, daughter of a patrician of Nuremberg.

Another son, Anton, was born in 1493 – he later became head of Jakob Fugger the Younger's family business and founder of the "von Glött" and "von Babenhausen" princely lines of the Fugger family.