Friedrich Thyssen

Johann "Friedrich" Thyssen (Aachen, October 1, 1804 – Eschweiler, May 25, 1877) was a German banker.

Ancestry

He was the son of Nikolaus Thyssen (Aachen, December 21, 1763 – Aachen, October 15, 1814) and wife (m. Aachen, November 4, 1792) Christine Nellessen (Aachen, September 22, 1766 – Aachen, May 8, 1818), paternal grandson of Nikolaus Thyssen (Gut Schlottfeld, November 5, 1727 – Aachen, October 2, 1778) and wife (m. Aachen, January 16, 1763) Anna Maria Hungs (Aachen, April 17, 1740 – Aachen, July 16, 1825), and great-grandson of Isaak Lambert Thyssen (c. 1685 – 1773) and first wife (m. bef. 1720) Johanna Wirtz (d. c. 1728), married secondly at Laurensberg, on August 24, 1730 Anna Maria Charlier (d. c. 1738), and thirdly at Aachen, c. 1740 Mechtild Deutz (b. Aachen, February 26, 1701). His family had settled in the rural Aachen in the 18th century.

Marriage

He married in Aachen, October 1, 1838 with his cousin Katharina Thyssen (Aachen, September 28, 1814 – Düsseldorf, February 11, 1888), daughter of Isaak Thyssen (Aachen, July 15, 1766 – Aachen, April 1, 1815) and wife (m. Köln, June 22, 1803) Margaretha Kluck (Köln, October 6 1784 – Aachen, February 28 1868).

Career

He was the beginner of the Thyssen fortune and the father of August Thyssen and Joseph Thyssen, both of whom joined his bank.

ee also

* Thyssen
* Thyssen family

External links

* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/f/francescathyssenanc1958.htm Ancestors of Baroness Francesca Anne Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/e/eleonoreaustriaanc1994.htm Ancestors of Archduchess Eleonore of Austria]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/f/ferdinandaustriaanc1997.htm Ancestors of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/g/gloriaaustriaanc1999.htm Ancestors of Archduchess Gloria of Austria]
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/thyssen.html Thyssen-Bornemissza de Kászon et Impérfalva Family]