1) Banking family 
The family of Höchstetter (also rendered Hechstetter or Hochstetter) from Höchstädt near the banks of the Danube were members of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg. For a time, the international mercantile bankers and venture capitalists whose most notorious member was Ambrosius Höchstetter were on a par with...