Maximilian Speck von Sternburg built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Maximilian Speck von Sternburg as German wool merchant and art collector.
Maximilian Speck von Sternburg was born at Gröba in 1776.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as merchant, entrepreneur and art collector.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
Maximilian Speck von Sternburg died in 1856, aged 80. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
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