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Praha (Prague), Česko |
By the age of twenty-one, Simon von Lämel had his own wholesale warehouse |
- Simon von Lämel encouraged improvements in sheep raising, and created new ways to card and manufacture their wool.
- During the Napoleonic wars, Simon von Lämel helped Austria in any way he could. He bought all the supplies from magazines captured by the French, and later all the captured artillery pieces as well. He saved the Austrian Empire over 3,000,000 gulden. In 1809, he bought 450 tons of biscuits for the troops, declining any profits or commissions. He loaned the government considerable sums of money, which culminated in 1809, with his lending the state his entire fortune to speed the withdrawal of French troops from Vienna.
- In March, 1811 , Simon von Lämel asked to be allowed to buy a house in Vienna, but the emperor refused his permission. Later that year, Simon von Lämel was elevated to the hereditary nobility, giving both him and his children the right to live in Vienna. In 1813, he was appointed commissary of the army by Field Marshal Prince Schwarzenberg, which released him from having to quarter soldiers.
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