Georg Giese

Georg Giese (1497–1562) was a Hanseatic merchant of Danzig, the son of the city's mayor Albrecht Giese. His family maintained an office at the Steelyard in London. From the 1520s he spent at least twelve years in London managing that office, and became the Alderman's Deputy there in 1533.

In 1532 Hans Holbein the Younger painted his portrait amid the letters and seals of his counting house. He returned to Danzig in 1535, married the daughter of a leading merchant, and died there in 1562.