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    Welser was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence in international...
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    Leopold Maria Möst (born 16 August 1960), known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor. He is currently music director of the Cleveland...
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    Philippine Welser (1527 – 24 April 1580) was the morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. She was granted the titles Baroness of Zinnenburg...
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  • Welser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bartholomeus V. Welser (c. 1475 – 1559), Augsburg merchant and banker Bartholomeus VI. Welser...
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    Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and Crab Island in the 16th and 17th centuries. Klein-Venedig...
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    of its concerts at Severance Hall. Its current music director is Franz Welser-Möst. The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by music-aficionado Adella...
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    Prince Bartholomeus Welser (25 June 1484 in Memmingen – 28 March 1561 in Amberg) was a German banker. In 1528 he signed an agreement with Charles V, emperor...
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    Daniel Welser (born February 16, 1983, in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria) is an Austrian professional ice hockey player who retired with the EC Red...
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    Mark Welser (1558–1614) was a German banker, politician, and astronomer, who engaged in learned correspondence with European intellectuals of his time...
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    Maria von Welser (born 26 June 1946 in Munich) is a German TV journalist and the President of UNICEF Germany. She is by marriage a member of the preeminent...
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    Klein-Venedig (category House of Welser)
    Carvajal had von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser executed. King Charles V revoked Welser's charter. Welser transported to the colony German miners, and...
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  • Bartholomeus VI. Welser (the younger, 26 October 1512 – c. 17 May 1546) was a member of the Welser banking family, which had acquired the colonial rights...
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    Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (31 December 1663 – 1 February 1711 Nuremberg) was a mayor of Nuremberg. He was the son of Carl Welser (born 6 April 1635)...
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    Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According...
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    there had been assigned to the Welser family by the Emperor Charles V. When Philipp von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser were on a expedition to find...
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    interchange (A23) – Vienna Rothneusiedl interchange (S1) 0 0 Plans rejected A 25 Welser Autobahn Haid interchange (A1)– Wels interchange (A8) 20 12 Open A 26 Linzer...
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    Domingo by the Welser family of Augsburg, who had signed an agreement to explore the territory of Venezuela. As an agent of the Welser family, Federmann...
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    The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he was married to Philippine Welser in his first marriage. In his second marriage to Anna Juliana Gonzaga, he...
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    (1895–1976), writer Dieter Kronzucker (born 1936), journalist Maria von Welser (born 1946), journalist Steffen Seibert (born 1960), journalist Sandra Maischberger...
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    Klein-Venedig (1528 - 1546), the concession of Venezuela Province to the Welser banking family by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Hutten...
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  • Orchestra led by conductor Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland, Ohio, on 23 January 2003. The piece is dedicated to Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra...
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    diverse as metals and spices. Fuggers Jacques Cœur Tripp of Dordrecht Welsers Marc Rich – oil John D. Arnold – natural gas Louis Bacon – cotton Jay Gould...
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    the first time was during the Klein-Venedig period (1528–1546), when the Welser bankers of Augsburg received a concession over Venezuela Province from Charles...
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    Carvajal had Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser executed. Subsequently, Charles V revoked Welser's concession. The Welsers transported German miners to the colony...
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    banking dynasties – notably, the Medicis, the Pazzi, the Fuggers, the Welsers, the Berenbergs, and the Rothschilds – have played a central role over...
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    international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the...
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    the Klein-Venedig period in Venezuela (1528–1546), agents of the German Welser banking family (which had received a concession from Charles I of Spain)...
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    National de Paris 2009–2021 Succeeded by Gustavo Dudamel Preceded by Franz Welser-Möst Generalmusikdirektor, Vienna State Opera 2020–present Succeeded by...
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    as Semyon Bychkov and Franz Welser-Möst were largely unknown in London. No successor was appointed until 1990 when Welser-Möst was named as the new principal...
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    when it was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig. It has its origins with the 1527 foundation...
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