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Joseph Anton von Maffei
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Joseph Anton von Maffei

German industrialist (1790–1870)

Joseph Anton Ritter von Maffei (4 September 1790 – 1 September 1870) was a German industrialist. Together with Joseph von Baader (1763–1835) and Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett (1817–1884), Maffei was one of the three most important railway pioneers in Bavaria.2

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Born Sep 4, 1790, died Sep 1, 1870.1

Companies

Early life and education

Joseph Anton Maffei was born in Munich, in the Electorate of Bavaria, the son of an Italian tradesman from Verona. The Palazzo Maffei still stands today on the Piazza delle Erbe. His father came to Munich in order to run a tobacco wholesale business, that Joseph Anton Maffei continued. In 1835 Maffei was one of the founding shareholders of the Bavarian Mortgage and Discount Bank (Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank).

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, engineer, politician.8

  • 1843 to 1850Chair, Industrie- und Handelskammer für München und Oberbayern7
  • Date not recordedFounded Maffei3
  • Date not recordedFounded KNDS Deutschland4
  • Date not recordedFounded KraussMaffei5
  • Date not recordedMember of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies6

Personal life

  • BornSep 4, 1790, Munich9
  • DiedSep 1, 1870, Munich10
  • CitizenshipKingdom of Bavaria11

The surname von Maffei or Maffei is a patronymic name derived from the personal name Matthäus (German). In ancient times the Maffei family settled in Verona from Germany.

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Awards

  • 1851Golden Citizen's Medal of the City of Munich12

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