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44-532: Although the company itself has a relatively short history, its origins go far back. In 1487, a mine and foundry was founded by the Fugger family. In 1657, all Fugger properties in Tyrol were taken over by the state. Due to exhaustion of the copper and silver deposits, the mine changed its focus to iron. The company was acquired by Julius and Theodor Reitlinger in 1881. In 1909, the mine ran out of iron as well, and after

88-649: A boom during the First World War only the foundry was left. In 1914, Friedrich Reitlinger took over the factory after the death of Julius Reitlinger, making it a state-protected company at the start of the First World War. In 1938, shortly after Austria's annexation to the National Socialist German Reich, he committed suicide with his daughter after being held captive in his home by the National Socialists. The company

132-551: A consortium of German and Italian businessmen that loaned Charles V 850,000 florins (about 95,625 oz(t) or 2974 kg of gold) to procure his election as Holy Roman Emperor over Francis I of France . The Fuggers' contribution was 543,000 florins. In 1494, the Fuggers established their first public company. Jakob's aim was to establish a copper monopoly by opening foundries in Hohenkirchen and Fuggerau (named for

176-539: A goldsmith. His fortune progressed, and by 1461, he was the twelfth richest man in Augsburg. He died in 1469. Jakob's eldest son, Ulrich, took over the business on his father's death, and in 1473 he provided new suits of clothes to Frederick, his son Maximilian I , and his suite on their journey to Trier to meet Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the betrothal of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria. Thus began

220-564: A great-grandson of Anton , was elevated to the rank of a Bavarian prince in 1913 with Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött ; the branch ended in the male line with his son Joseph-Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött (1895–1981), husband of Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern (1895–1975), his estate including the castle at Kirchheim in Schwaben (acquired in 1551 by Anton Fugger) being inherited by his sister Maria's (1894–1935) son, Albert Count von Arco-Zinneberg (b. 1932), whom he adopted, and who took on

264-494: A number of almshouses for needy citizens. By 1523, 52 houses had been built, and the Fuggerei had come into existence. It is still used today. Jakob died in 1525. He is considered to be one of the richest persons of all time, and today he is well known as Jakob Fugger "the rich". At its peak his wealth is estimated to be 2% of Europe's GDP. Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger , son of his elder brother Georg. Anton

308-766: A very profitable relationship between the Fugger family and the Habsburgs . With the help of their brother in Rome; Marx, Ulrich and his brother George handled remittances to the papal court of monies for the sale of indulgences and the procuring of Church benefices. From 1508 to 1515, they leased the Roman mint. Ulrich died in 1510. When the Fuggers made their first loan to the Archduke Sigismund in 1487, they took as security an interest in silver and copper mines in

352-413: Is Jenbacher's newest product, a V20 gas engine delivering up to 9.5 MW (12,915 PS). When it is put into production it will be Jenbachers most efficient gas engine available with an electrical efficiency of 48.7%, and a combined heat and power thermal efficiency of over 90%. The J920 uses Miller cycle valve timing and two-stage turbocharging , along with a 'three-module' construction consisting of

396-631: Is Prince Hubertus Fugger von Babenhausen who owns Jakob the Rich's former business seat, the Fuggerhäuser in Augsburg, as well as nearby Wellenburg Castle and the castle at Babenhausen, Bavaria (purchased by Anton Fugger in 1539 and today housing a museum on the family history); he is also co-owner of a small private bank, the Fürst Fugger Privatbank , in Augsburg. The branch Fugger von Glött , descendants of Johann Ernst,

440-521: 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. Alongside the 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

484-496: Is used to refer to the rolling stock in a train. In the United States, the term rolling stock has been expanded from the older broadly defined "trains" to include wheeled vehicles used by businesses on roadways. The word stock in the term is used in a sense of inventory . Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset , or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to

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528-953: The Austrian Federal Railways and other railroad companies. Jenbacher Werke designated their locomotives according to a system derived from the type of power transmission, approximate performance, wheel arrangement or application and the operating weight. The ÖBB series 2060 was therefore the work designation DH200B28. The other models carried the name JW. The Railway engineering department was taken over by Molinari Rail . Jenbacher currently specializes in lean burn gas engines , including cogeneration plants and containerized power generator sets utilizing said gas engines. Jenbacher began producing gas engines in 1957. Jenbacher's main facility still resides in Jenbach in Austria, and employs over 1400 workers. Jenbacher manufactures

572-775: The Tuchers , they never converted to Lutheranism , as presented in the Augsburg Confession , but rather remained with the Roman Catholic Church and thus close to the Habsburg emperors. Jakob Fugger "the Rich" was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511 and assumed the title Imperial Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn in 1514. Today, he is considered to be one of

616-618: The Tyrol . This was the beginning of an extensive family involvement in mining and precious metals. The Fuggers also participated in mining operations in Silesia , and owned copper mines in Hungary . Their trade in spices, wool, and silk extended to almost all parts of Europe. Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger , born in 1459, was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. In 1498, he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg,

660-417: The rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles , including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives , freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars . Passenger vehicles can be un-powered, or self-propelled, single or multiple units. In North America, Australia and other countries, the term consist ( / ˈ k ɒ n s ɪ s t / KON -sist )

704-480: The slave trade from Africa to America , but was more successful in the spice trade and the importation of Hungarian cattle. Eventually, he was forced to renounce the Maestrazgo lease after 1542 and to give up the silver mines of Guadalcanal . In 1530 and 1531 the Fuggers held exclusive rights to trade through the strait of Magellan . While European trade with Asia through this route was thought to be possible,

748-713: The European copper market. This banking family replaced the 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 cities , such as

792-622: The Fugger company was completely dissolved after the Thirty Years' War when Leopold Fugger returned the mines in Tyrol to the Habsburgs in 1657. The burial chapel of the Fuggers in St. Anne's Church, Augsburg of 1509 is the earliest example of Renaissance architecture in Germany with its memorial relief tablets in the style of Dürer in the choir of the church. It became the burial place of

836-511: The Fuggers never developed this route. Decades later the Manila galleon would inaugurate trade with Asia across the Pacific with no Fugger involvement. After hard times under Anton's nephew and successor Johann Jakob , Anton's oldest son, Markus , carried on the business successfully, earning some 50,000,000 ducats between 1563 and 1641 from the production of mercury at Almadén alone, but

880-545: The Pope to rescind or amend the prohibition on the levying of interest . The imperial fiscal and governmental authorities in Nuremberg brought action against him and other merchants in an attempt to halt their monopolistic practices. In 1511, Jakob deposited 15,000 florins as an endowment for some almshouses . In 1514, he bought up part of Augsburg and in 1516 came to an agreement with the city that he would build and provide

924-401: The atmosphere, to turn waste into energy. Methane has a much higher global warming potential than CO 2 , and it is therefore interesting for operators to burn gas in engines instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. Further applications include data centers, greenhouses or heat & power units for industrial use. They are also offered as containerised units. The Jenbacher J920 FleXtra

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968-528: The camp. In 1945 it was occupied by the American army. After the collapse at the end of the Second World War the factory was placed under public administration. It had to be converted to civilian production, and started out with cookware , but also started with the repair of railway wagons. Because of the availability of appropriate specialists and skilled workers, it was decided to concentrate on

1012-409: The daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg ( German : Großbürger zu Augsburg ). They had no children, but this marriage gave Jakob the opportunity to elevate to Grand Burgher of Augsburg and later allowed him to pursue a seat on the city council ( Stadtrat ) of Augsburg. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511, made Imperial Count in 1514, and in 1519, led

1056-611: The engine itself, the electrical generator and the turbocharging unit consisting of both turbochargers and charge air coolers along with intake and exhaust piping and bypass valves. In common with most current marine diesel engines , the J920 has a segmented camshaft , along with combining individual cylinder heads , the cylinder liner , piston and connecting rod into one easily removable modular 'power unit' for ease of maintenance and overhaul . Fugger The House of Fugger ( German pronunciation: [ˈfʊɡɐ] )

1100-513: The family is Markus Fugger von dem Rech (born 1970). Hans Fugger's younger son, Jakob the Elder , founded another branch of the family. This branch progressed more steadily and they became known as the "Fuggers of the Lily" after their chosen arms of a flowering lily on a gold and blue background. Jakob was a master weaver, a merchant, and an alderman . He married Barbara Bäsinger , the daughter of

1144-546: The family was Hans Fugger, a weaver at Graben , near the Swabian Free City of Augsburg . The last name was originally spelled "Fucker" – the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moved to Augsburg in 1367, with the local tax register laconically noting Fucker advenit , "Fugger has arrived". He married Klara Widolf and became an Augsburg citizen. After Klara's death, he married Elizabeth Gattermann. He joined

1188-828: The family, in Carinthia ) and by expanding the sales organization in Europe, especially the Antwerp agency. Jakob leased the copper mines in Besztercebánya in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Banská Bystrica , Slovakia ) in 1495, eventually making them the greatest mining centre of the time. At the height of his power Jakob Fugger was sharply criticized by his contemporaries, especially by Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther , for selling indulgences and benefices and urging

1232-407: The former Hungarian locomotive works Ganz- MÁVAG . On December 12, 1991, JTS attained majority share capital of Telfos, and bought out General Electric 's remaining share in 1993. In 1997, Jenbacher attempted to enter the tram market with help from AEG through a Jenbacher daughter company called Integral Verkehrstechnik AG Jenbach. Integral lost over 22 million Euros from 1997 to 2001, and led to

1276-577: The gas engines from the ground-up at this facility, including in-house crankshafts . Jenbacher gas engines are exclusively Otto cycle units with industrial grade spark plugs providing ignition. Smaller models utilize stoichiometric combustion, while the larger engines are lean burn engines with prechamber ignition. Jenbacher engines run on natural gas , landfill gas , sewage gas , biogas , mine gas , coal gas , syngas and hydrogen . Due to this flexibility they are often used in applications where gas would normally be flared off or released into

1320-595: The licensee. The plant thus became the largest armaments factory in Tyrol. There was massive use of Nazi forced labor: two thirds of the 3,000 employees were forced laborers. [2] A women's camp, which was a subcamp of the Reichenau labor education camp under the control of the Gestapo, was located at the Jenbacher Heinkel-Werke. The Ukrainian forced laborer Eugenia Kaser reports deplorable conditions in

1364-471: The name Fugger von Glött. The comital branch Fugger von Kirchberg und zu Weissenhorn is today represented by countess Maria-Elisabeth von Thun und Hohenstein , née countess Fugger, heiress of Kirchberg Castle at Illerkirchberg (bought in 1507 by Jakob Fugger). She also heads the charitable family foundations including the Fuggerei in Augsburg and Welden monastery. In Augsburg, a museum of Fugger and Welser history (Fugger und Welser Erlebnismuseum)

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1408-505: The production of diesel engines . The first product was a 15 hp two-stroke engine, which was very successful and was manufactured in large quantities. This was followed by more two-stroke and four stroke models of engine. The JW 15, 8 TO 15 Hp; the JW20, 15 to 20 Hp; and the JW20M, the same engine, but with inertial mass damping to counteract the vibrations of the single cylinder. The company

1452-507: The rest, and that the burial place of the Fugger family, who are considered strictly Catholic, is now in a Protestant church. Adding to the oddity is that Jacob Fugger's loans to Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg and the indulgence to repay them were what triggered Martin Luther's Reformation. Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (1766–1821) was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803. The present head of this branch

1496-484: The sale of the Jenbacher rail car division to Connex . In 1998 Jenbacher started its relationship with Clarke Energy which is now one of its largest gas engine distributors, The remaining gas engine-energy division was acquired by General Electric in 2003. In 2018 GE sold its Jenbacher and Waukesha brands to the private equity company Advent International which created the new company INNIO. In 2020, Innio takes over

1540-625: The share capital. In 1979, 1,550 people were employed at the plant. In 1988 the majority of the company was acquired by Auricon Beteiligungs AG. In 1991 it was organized into the Jenbacher Energy Systems AG (JES) and the Jenbacher Transport Systems Ltd. (JTS) divisions. In the same year, JTS acquired 29.9% of the British company Telfos Holding, which gave the company an influence on Ganz -Hunslet,

1584-475: The spare parts manufacturer and gas engine service specialist PowerUP, which was founded in 2016 by former Innio employees. Jenbacher's railway activities started in 1945, when they started performing repairs of rolling stock for the French occupation forces. In 1949, they started making diesel engines, power cars , trucks and compressors powered by the aforementioned engines. In addition, they made rail cars for

1628-533: The three brothers Jacob Fugger , Georg Fugger and Ulrich Fugger the Elder and their two nephews Raymund Fugger and Hieronymus Fugger (1499–1538). When St. Anne's Church became Protestant in 1548, the Fugger Chapel remained Catholic because the Fugger Foundation continued to look after it and contributed to the upkeep of the church. Hence. part of the church is denominationally different from

1672-616: The wealthiest people ever to have lived, with a GDP-adjusted net worth of over $ 400 billion, and approximately 2% of the entire GDP of Europe at the time. While the company was dissolved in 1657, the Fuggers remained wealthy landowners and ruled the County of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn. The Babenhausen branch became Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803, while the Glött branch of the family became Princes in Bavaria in 1914. The founder of

1716-426: The weaver's guild, and by 1396, he was ranked high in the list of taxpayers. He added the business of a merchant to that of a weaver. His eldest son, Andreas Fugger , was a merchant in the weaving trade, and was nicknamed "Fugger the Rich" after buying land and other properties. The Fugger family itemized and inventoried a large number of Asian rugs, an unusual undertaking at the time. Andreas's son, Lukas Fugger ,

1760-572: Was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560. In 1525, the Fuggers were granted the revenues from the Spanish orders of knighthood together with the profits from mercury and silver mines. The formerly rich yield of the Tirolean and Hungarian mines decreased, but Anton established new trade ties with Peru and Chile and started mining ventures in Sweden and Norway . He was involved in

1804-561: Was confiscated and Aryanized for the benefit of the state of Tyrol. At the beginning of World War II , all of Tyrol was seized and Aryanized, and the company was to 'work for the benefit of the country'. The plant made brake pads for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , and from 1939 they made airframe parts and rocket motors in Jenbach (some to liquid-fueled aircraft rocket engine designs from Hellmuth Walter KG ) for Heinkel as

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1848-534: Was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III , a golden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed "the Fugger of the Deer". He would eventually go bankrupt. His descendants served their cousins of the famous younger branch and later went to Silesia. Contemporary members of the Fugger of the Deer ( German: Fugger vom Reh) are descendants of Matthäus Fugger (1442–1489/92). The current head of

1892-487: Was now pushed to develop generators, compressors and pumps of the same quality. In 1959 the company was constituted as Jenbacher Werke AG, the main shareholders being Creditanstalt with 35% and Mannesmann with 26%, the rest being free float . Creditanstalt increased its share steadily and after the purchase of Mannesmann's share through the CA-controlled Andritz AG they acquired a vast majority of

1936-621: Was opened. In April 2019, Dutch maritime investigators unearthed a 16th-century shipwreck during an exploration for container ship MSC Zoe which lost containers overboard in January 2019. Copper plates with emblem of the Fugger family were found in the ship built around 1540 in the Netherlands during the reign of Charles V . The following historic buildings are still owned by the Fugger family: Andreas vom Reh (1394–1457) Rolling stock The term rolling stock in

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