Carl Theodor von Seyssel d'Aix

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Carl Theodor Graf von Seyssel d'Aix (born June 20, 1780 in Düsseldorf - Bilk , † April 26, 1863 in Koblenz ) was a Prussian officer as well as a Bergisch and Prussian administrative officer .

Life

childhood and education

Carl Theodor Seyssel d'Aix comes from a dynasty belonging to the ancient Savoy nobility. His father was the Bavarian treasurer and general Maximilian Claudius Maria Graf von Seyssel d'Aix (1742–1816), his mother the Friderica Augusta Albertine nee. Baroness von Reitzenstein (1739-1816). Ten year joined Carl Theodor as a second lieutenant in the Ansbach'sche Fusilier - Bataillon of Reitsenstein one. As a result of the sale of the principalities of Bayreuth and Ansbach to Prussia (1791), he switched to his service in 1792. In 1799 he received his appointment as prime lieutenant and in 1806 as staff captain . On April 9, 1808, he resigned from the Prussian military at his own request.

Seyssel in the Rhineland

Seyssel moved to the Rhineland when Johann Franz Joseph von Nesselrode-Reichenstein offered him the position of head of division (head of department) in the Ministry of the Interior of the Grand Duchy of Berg on June 1, 1808 , and he took up this position after being appointed by Grand Duke Joachim Murat . From this position he took over the provisional administration of the arrondissement Elberfeld - Duisburg - Wesel on January 1st, 1809 . On May 1, 1809, he was appointed receveur général (arrondissements tax recipient) based in Mülheim / Rhine , before he was promoted to sub-prefect of the Elberfeld-Duisburg-Wesel arrondissement in the Rhine department on March 19, 1813 . Its duties included the arrest of the parents of refugee conscripts in order to persuade them to return. Napoleon 's younger brother Jérôme Bonaparte , then King of Westphalia , had to wait for Seyssel to stop in Elberfeld when he fled to Paris in the fall of 1813. During this phase, Seyssel was able to avert the demolition of the Haspeler Bridge , ordered by the advancing French General Rigaud , as was Jacques Claude Beugnot's request to arrest six respected Elberfeld citizens and bring them to Düsseldorf. Under the Prussian State Councilor Justus von Gruner , who from the end of 1813 took over the administration of the previous Grand Duchy of Berg, now called Generalgouvernement Berg , and from February 1814 became Governor of the Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein , Seyssel was not only allowed to remain in the civil service, but rather switched with Gruner from 1 February to June 15, 1814 as councilor of the Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein. Seyssel had known Gruner since 1800. On December 3, 1814, Seyssel d'Aix was appointed district director in Elberfeld, which included the later districts of Elberfeld, Solingen and Wipperfürth . The appointment as district commissioner followed on April 23, 1816. At least temporarily, he was also entrusted with the administration of the Solingen district , before Wilhelm von Voss took the position there in June 1816, initially provisionally and from January 1817 also definitively.

District Administrator of the Elberfeld District

Seyssel d'Aix was the first Prussian district administrator in the Elberfeld district . After his formal appointment on January 12, 1817, he held this position for almost 31, including the previous years of service even 33 years. From October 2, 1820, he was also in charge of the Mettmann District Office , until the two districts were merged on November 1, 1820. On September 30, 1847, he resigned at his own request (Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of July 2, 1847) ) to retire.

family

The Catholic Carl Theodor Seyssel d'Aix married Ernestine von Crailsheim for the first time on February 23, 1806, widowed von Holz (* March 6, 1781 Frühstockheim; † June 1, 1815 in Elberfeld). Their daughter Maria (born October 30, 1821 in Elberfeld; † July 26, 1900 in Düsseldorf) married Constantin von Briesen on April 17, 1852 in Koblenz .

In her second marriage on April 17, 1820 in Elberfeld, Adelheid Peltzer, a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church (born October 23, 1798 in Elberfeld, † 1882 in Koblenz). Their children were raised Protestants. Adelheid Seyssel d'Aix was the daughter of the wholesaler Wilhelm Peltzer, whom he had met around 1815. According to Grote, Carl Theodor Seyssel d'Aix was born on June 20, 1780 in the former moated castle Haus Goor near Gelsenkirchen- Hessler, which was only owned by the family until he was sold in 1847 and that later as a result of industrial development of the Ruhr area was canceled.

Honors

literature

  • Max Bär : The administrative constitution of the Rhine province since 1815. (Publications of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde XXXV), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 (second reprint of the Bonn 1919 edition), ISBN 3-7700-7600-1 , pp. 71, 231, 244 .
  • Gustav Grote: Carl Theodor Graf v. Seyssel d'Aix. 1780-1863. In: Wuppertal biographies. 10th episode, Wuppertal 1971, pp. 91-104 (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, volume 19)
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 745 f .
  • Charles Schmidt: The Grand Duchy of Berg 1806-1813. A study on French supremacy in Germany under Napoleon I (= Bergische Forschungen. Sources and researches on Bergische history, art and literature, XXVII) Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 1999, ISBN 3-87707-535-5 , p. 484f u . Note 136.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gustav Grote: Carl Theodor Graf v. Seyssel d'Aix. 1780-1863. In: Wuppertal biographies. 10th episode, Wuppertal 1971
  2. ^ A b Max Bär: The constitution of the authorities of the Rhine province since 1815. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde XXXV), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 (second reprint of the Bonn 1919 edition), ISBN 3-7700-7600-1
  3. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 379-380 .
personal data
SURNAME Seyssel d'Aix, Carl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyssel d'Aix, Carl Theodor Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf - Bilk
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1863
Place of death Koblenz