Welser

This article is about the merchant family of Augsburg. For other uses of the term, see Welser (disambiguation).

Welser is the surname of an important German banking and merchant family, originally from Augsburg. Along with the Fugger family, the Welser family controlled various sectors of the European economy, and accumulated enormous wealth through trade and the German colonization of the Americas.

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