House of Welser - Welser

Japanese: ウェルザー家 - ウェルザーけ（英語表記）Welser

An old Augsburg city noble family, the second largest German financial family after the Fuggers. Engaged in Italian trade since 1368. In 1473, Lucas Welser formed a trading company with his three brothers, and his son Anton joined his wife's father, the Föhlin family, and established the Welser-Föhlin firm in 1498. He accumulated great wealth mainly through commercial activities and lent money to the Habsburgs, but even when the Fuggers became usury capitalists, he continued to work hard on commercial activities. In 1505, he attempted East Indies trade with Lisbon as his base, and after Anton's death, Bartholomew advanced into the New World, managing the copper mines of Haiti and colonizing Venezuela, but failed. In the second half of the 16th century, the family gradually declined due to the bankruptcy of the Habsburgs and Spanish royal families, and went bankrupt in 1614. The family split into the Nuremberg Welser family and the Ulm Welser family, the former of which was an important merchant and capitalist family and continued to exist as an old family until the 19th century, while the latter was also active until recently.

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Japanese:

アウクスブルクの古い都市貴族で，フッガー家に次ぐドイツ財閥の家系。 1368年以来イタリア貿易に従事。 1473年ルーカス・ウェルザーは3兄弟と商事会社を結成，その子アントンは，妻の父フェーリン家と結び，98年ウェルザー・フェーリン商会を設立，主として商業活動により巨富を積み，ハプスブルク家への貸付けを行なったが，フッガー家が高利貸資本家化したときも，商業活動に終始努力を払った。 1505年にはリスボンを根拠地として，東インド貿易を試み，アントンの死後，バルトロメウスは新大陸に進出，ハイチ銅山の経営，ベネズエラの植民に努めたが失敗。 16世紀後半にいたり，ハプスブルク・スペイン王家の破産の影響を受けて次第に衰退，1614年破産した。なお同家は，ニュルンベルク・ウェルザー家と，ウルム・ウェルザー家とに分家し，前者は傑出した商業資本家として活躍し，19世紀まで旧家として存続。後者も最近まで活躍していた。

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