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'''The Fanmayer Group''' is a multinational holding company founded in 1732 by [[The Fanmayer Group#History|Johannes Fanmayer]]. | '''The Fanmayer Group''' is a multinational holding company founded in 1732 by [[The Fanmayer Group#History|Johannes Fanmayer]]. | ||
The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has interests in a wide range of businesses, including banking, insurance, real estate, private equity, and hedge funds. The Fanmayer Group is one of the largest private companies in Germany and employs over 10,000 people. The company was founded in | The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has interests in a wide range of businesses, including banking, insurance, real estate, private equity, and hedge funds. The Fanmayer Group is one of the largest private companies in Germany and employs over 10,000 people. The company was founded in 1732 by Johannes Fanmayer, a Swiss businessman and entrepreneur. The company has been family-owned and operated for over eight generations. The Fanmayer Group is one of the oldest companies in Germany and has a long history of success. | ||
The company has a diversified portfolio of businesses and assets. The Fanmayer Group's businesses include banking, insurance, real estate, private equity, and hedge funds. The company has a global reach and operates in over 50 countries. The Fanmayer Group is a major contributor to the German economy and is one of the largest private companies in Germany. The company employs over 10,000 people and has a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. The Fanmayer Group is a major philanthropic donor and supports a number of charitable causes. The Fanmayer Group is a major funder and contributor to the [[Young Thought Leaders in Media]] summit. | The company has a diversified portfolio of businesses and assets. The Fanmayer Group's businesses include banking, insurance, real estate, private equity, and hedge funds. The company has a global reach and operates in over 50 countries. The Fanmayer Group is a major contributor to the German economy and is one of the largest private companies in Germany. The company employs over 10,000 people and has a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. The Fanmayer Group is a major philanthropic donor and supports a number of charitable causes. The Fanmayer Group is a major funder and contributor to the [[Young Thought Leaders in Media]] summit. | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
[[File:Baron Gustav Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813).jpg|thumb|Johannes Fanmayer, 1738]] | [[File:Baron Gustav Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813).jpg|thumb|Johannes Fanmayer, 1738]] | ||
Johannes Fanmayer founded the company in 1732. The company has been family-owned and operated for over eight generations. The Fanmayer Group is one of the oldest companies in Germany and has a long history of success. | Johannes Fanmayer founded the company in 1732. The company has been family-owned and operated for over eight generations. The Fanmayer Group is one of the oldest companies in Germany and has a long history of success. In 1769, Johannes Fanmayer's son, Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer took over the company. | ||
== | == Colonial America == | ||
The Fanmayer Group | Under the leadership of Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer, In 1774 The Fanmayer Group, which at this time mostly included N.J. Fanmayer and his brothers Markus and Andreas, embarked on an initiative to acquire certificates which allowed them to operate with legal impunity throughout not only the British colonial territories of North America, but the french and Spanish territories as well. | ||
Over the course of about 30 years, The Fanmayer Group was able to gain the blessings of most European powers in North America, allowing them to establish a shipping empire there but also enabling their role as an intermediary between the various world powers of the day. This placed the Fanmayer Group in a strategic position as a power broker between various European royals. | |||
== | === Role In The American Revolution === | ||
According to historians, it is unclear where The Fanmayer Group's loyalty lay during the years of the American Revolution, however one thing remains clear; that The company profited handsomely after the event, quadrupling their revenue between 1774 and 1790 | |||
== 19th Century == | |||
By the time Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer II took over the company in 1812, the company was well established as one of, if not the largest private company on earth. During the 1820s, N.J. Fanmayer II took a number of visits to Northern England where he observed a new type of industrial manufacturing. This inspired him to divert attention to a new fledgling type of industrial manufacturing business model in which raw goods were pumped at extreme efficiency. By the 1840s, The Fanmayer Group had been responsible either directly or indirectly for constructing over 90 percent of the earths railway systems. | |||
In 1852 Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer III took over the company and expanded its operation to include banking and finance. With the help of his son NIkolas Johannes Fanmayer IV, the company manufactured the worlds first mass produced YoYo in 1878, the same year N.J. Fanmayer IV took over as its leader. | |||
== 20th Century and Today == | |||
By the 1920s, The Fanmayer Group was a heavily diversified company, having allocated its billions in capital reserves into almost every industry on earth that was available for them to do so. During the months of August and September 1929, the companies CEO Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer V had orchestrated one of the most bizarre and elaborate actions taken by a company to date, which was the total allocation of the companies funds into millions of gold bricks. Fanmayer was short with reporters that year as to why he was taking seemingly pointless and irrational steps to liquidate the companies funds into gold. To make things stranger, Fanmayer planned to store the gold bricks in large underground Caverns across the United States, Europe, and South America. | |||
On October 27th, 1929, the last $100.23 of Fanmayer's capital holdings was converted into solid gold. The next day on October 28th, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined nearly 13 percent, marking the end of the roaring twenties and a start to the great depression which crippled both American and Global Markets. | |||
Over the Following 15 Years, The Fanmayer Group slowly but surely traded in their gold bricks for equity in most major western public corporate entities as well as propped up various powerful families that had lost everything in the crash. By World War II, the Fanmayer's had emerged owning a sizable portion of the entire earth's money. The company went public in 1962. | |||
Today, The Fanmayer group is still operated by the Fanmayer family and is led by it's CEO Nikolas Johannes Fanmayer VIII, the great great great great great great grandson of the companies founder Johannes Fanmayer. | |||
== Controversy and Lawsuits == | == Controversy and Lawsuits == | ||