Benjamin Metzler (* 1650 in crane number, cure principality Saxonia; "† 1686 in Frankfurt/Main) were a cloth dealer and a founder of the banking house B. Metzler seel. Son & CO. KGaA. Benjamin Metzler comes of to an old Saxonian minister family.

Metzler moved 1663 at the age from 13 years to Nuremberg, in order to complete in a trading firm commercial teachings there. It remained there eight years and pulled 1671 to Frankfurt/Main. Here Benjamin Metzler worked first as an accountant in a well-known draper's shop, before he made himself independent in the year 1674 with a trading firm.

Several of its brothers followed it to Frankfurt, worked there at strange trading firms and created also own enterprises. A younger brother of Benjamin, August Metzler, went to Stuttgart and created 1682 the J.B. Metzler' publishing house.

Benjamin Metzler acted predominantly with linen and Wollstoffen, in addition, with yarns, wool and flax as well as with clothes.

Its trade relations handed Wesel from Saxonia to Strasbourg, from Basel until.

In the year 1674 he married the daughter of a successful buyer on 27 April Katharina Voss. From the marriage five children followed, from whom two in the infancy died. The citizen right of the city Frankfurt it acquired 1676.

After its early death in the year 1686 Benjamin Metzler of its wife and its three minor children left, the successfully introduced and flourishing enterprise created by it.

First its wife took over the management together with the Frankfurt one "commercial man and "Johann Zwirlein, which she married 1687. The draper's shop created by Benjamin Metzler is since its establishment in family estate and developed over 11 generations to the today's banking house Metzler.

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