Joseph Engelbert Claudius Baron von Schwerin

Since 1807, the manufactory was assigned to the "General Mining Administration", which in turn was subordinate to the Ministry of Finance. Its director until 1820 was Joseph Claudius von Schwerin, who was thus also responsible for the manufactory and was very committed to its interests. In 1810, he himself took over the overall management. A year earlier, the painter Paul Böhngen had already been appointed "factory factor" and entrusted with running the technical operations. From 1815, von Schwerin appointed as "factory commissioner" the mining councilor Karl Schmitz, son of Johann Jakob, who after Böhngen's death had already taken over the technical management and from 1822 also the administrative tasks of the manufactory. Thanks to Schwerin's application and a subsequent decree issued by the king, Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory was granted privileges in 1815.