Christoph Dionysius von Seeger

Christoph Dionysius Seeger around 1775, painting by Johann Konrad Schleehauf

Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Schöckingen

Christoph Dionysius Seeger , from 1801 Freiherr von Seeger , (born October 7, 1740 in Schöckingen , † June 26, 1808 in Blaubeuren ) was one of the earliest teachers and a main organizer of the High Charles School .

Life

Christoph Dionysius Seeger was a son of the Schöckingen pastor Johann Gottlieb Seeger and was born in the local parsonage. Originally also intended for clerical status, he attended the seminars in Blaubeuren and Bebenhausen , but then joined the Grenadier Regiment à cheval von Phull as a flag junior and took part in the campaign against Prussia . For his further education he studied at the University of Tübingen . His main interest was mathematics.

Duke Carl Eugen initially entrusted him with road construction tasks and later with the management of the leveling and gardening work at Solitude Palace . Seeger also had sons of soldiers to train there as gardeners. From these beginnings the "nursery school" Carl Eugen later developed. Seeger inspired the Duke to train not only craftsmen but also officers in this school, and soon afterwards became director of the Charles School. In this capacity he was responsible for drafting the curricula, supervising the lessons and exams, selecting the teachers and generally leading the education of the pupils. After Carl Eugen died on October 21, 1793, the management of the Karlsschule, which had had university status as the Hohe Karlsschule since 1781 , was in Seeger's hands. However, it was closed the following spring because Duke Ludwig Eugen did not want to continue the work of his predecessor.

Seeger was now a colonel in the Swabian district . From 1800 on, he was in charge of the Württemberg Reich contingent. He fought with his troops in the battle of Höchstädt . In 1801 he was raised to the baron status by the emperor, in 1805 he was commander of the Württemberg auxiliary corps under Napoleon against Austria. A year later he resigned from active duty as major general and brigadier for health reasons and died in 1808 while staying with his daughter Caroline Friederike von Kauffmann in Blaubeuren.

In addition to this daughter Caroline, he and his wife Johanne Louise had their son Carl Christian von Seeger , who became State Councilor and General Director of Hydraulics, as well as their daughters Charlotte Maria and Franziska Wilhelmine and their son Eugen.

Commemoration

Since 1987 a memorial plaque has been commemorating Christoph Dionysius von Seeger on the birth house.

Written certificates etc.

Caricature by Joseph Anton Koch : Seeger beats a defiant student

Numerous written documents by Seeger, who controlled the entire correspondence of the Hohen Karlsschule, are in the main state archive in Stuttgart. Seeger also started a collection of silhouettes; It also contained a painted silhouette of the young Friedrich Schiller , who can be considered the earliest surviving picture of the poet.

literature

• LJ von Stadlinger: History of the Württemberg warfare from the earliest to the most recent times , Stuttgart 1856.
• A. Pfister: Memories from the Württemberg war history of the 18th and 19th centuries following the history of the 8th Infantry Regiment , Stuttgart 1868.
• Eugen Schneider :  Seeger, Christoph Dionysius Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 570-572.
• Robert Uhland: History of the High Charles School in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1953 (depictions from the history of Württemberg 37)
• Hans Pfeifer: An officer from Württemberg over Ellwangen in 1802. in: Ellwanger Jahrbuch 1967/68, pp. 135–140.
• Ralf Fritze: Military schools as scientific training centers in Germany and France. in: Francia 16/2, 1989, pp. 213-232.
• Günter Cordes: The Württemberg army at the time of Napoleon. in: Baden and Württemberg in the age of Napoleon 2. Stuttgart 1987, pp. 275–296.
• Franz Quarthal: The "Hohe Carlsschule" , in: "O Fürstin der Heimath! Happy Stutgard ”. Politics, culture and society in the German southwest around 1800. ed. by Christoph Jamme and Otto Pöggeler, Stuttgart 1988 (Deutscher Idealismus 15), pp. 35–54.
• Regina Keyler: The High Charles School and its director Christoph Dionysius von Seeger. in: moments. Contributions to cultural studies. 1/2004, pp. 15-16.

Web links

• Main State Archives Stuttgart
• A letter from Schiller to Seeger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Lautenbach, Lexicon Schiller Quotes , (Iudicium) 2003, ISBN 3-89129-805-6 , p. 710
2. ^ Commemorative plaque for Schöckinger rectory . In: Leonberger Kreiszeitung, November 23, 1987.
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