Carl Christian von Seeger

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Carl Christian Gottlob Seeger , from 1801 Freiherr von Seeger , (born December 21, 1773 in Bietigheim ; † May 24, 1858 ) was a Württemberg hydraulic engineer .

Life

Seeger, a son of Johanna Louise von Seeger and her husband, the director of the High Charles School Christoph Dionysius von Seeger , attended this educational institution from 1780. In 1787 he was praised there for "excellent and noble behavior", in 1791 he received a prize for "arts composition" and in 1792 he became a lieutenant. His military career led him in 1798 further to the quartermaster patent , in 1801 he became captain in 1805 Major, in 1806 he was awarded the Major and Quartermaster General Lieutenant patent, a year later he was lieutenant colonel and colonel , and in 1811 finally Major General . As early as 1801, his father had been raised to the baron status.

In the same year Carl Christian von Seeger also became State Councilor and General Hydraulic Engineering Director in Württemberg. In this capacity he was temporarily the superior of Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofers .

From 1836 to 1839, Seeger worked with Georg von Bühler on studies for railway lines in Württemberg , where Seeger was entrusted with the northern and western lines . He retired in March 1841 and received the commentary cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in the same year .

to travel

In 1797 and 1798, von Seeger undertook study trips on the subject of hydraulic engineering, which took him to Kassel , Saxony and Thuringia , but also to Holland and Austria . In 1837 he went to England to get to know the local railways.

family

Seeger married Caroline Zentgraf in 1803, a daughter of the princely Löwenstein court advisor Franz Reinhard Zentgraf. Several children were born from the marriage. The documents of the von Seeger family are in the main state archive in Stuttgart.

literature

  • Fritz Bürkle: Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer (1758–1836). Pioneer of hydraulic engineering in Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-91521-4 ( Publications of the Stuttgart Archive . Volume 41).
  • Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohen Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon. Kohlhammer 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021563-4 . P. 489.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/einfueh.php?Stock=6827 he was born on December 21st, but according to a document description from the State Archives, the baptism took place on December 3rd.
  2. ↑ Birgit Hummler: You almost missed the connection. Bietigheim and the Württemberg Northern Railway . In: Energy - New powers for Heilbronn . City Museums Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1997, ISBN 3-930811-65-0 , p. 31-42 .
  3. ↑ http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=1-122861
  4. ↑ http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=1-122863 ; according to Fritz Bürkle , Der Neckar und Freiberg im Wandel der Zeit , Freiberg 1989, p. 249, note 788, this career move only followed in 1813.
  5. ↑ Andreas M. Räntzsch: Württembergische railroad history. Volume 1: 1830-1854. Planning phase and implementation of the building project . H&L publications, Schweinfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928786-36-9 .
  6. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1858. p. 35.
  7. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?Stock=6827&klassi=001& AnzeigeKlassi= 005
personal data
SURNAME Seeger, Carl Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seeger, Carl Christian Gottlieb Freiherr von (full name); Seeger, Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Bietigheim
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1858