Christoph von Seiler

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Christoph von Seiler , full name Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Alphons von Seiler (born May 29, 1822 in Nuremberg ; † October 11, 1904 ibid) was a German lawyer and second mayor of Nuremberg .

Life

Christoph Seiler, son of the 3rd pastor of St. Sebald, attended the Egidiengymnasium in Nuremberg until 1840 . He studied in Erlangen , Heidelberg and Munich Law and resumed in the District Court Kulmbach , at the district and municipal court Nuremberg and on crime and Circuit Court Ansbach operate also at different lawyer. During his studies in Erlangen, he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1841 . During the revolution of 1848/49 Seiler joined the constitutional association. In 1851 he was elected to the Magistrate of Nuremberg for one year as administrator of a legal council office. From 1852 to 1861 he was a legally qualified magistrate. During these years, Seiler was particularly committed to the reorganization of the arts and crafts school under the new director August Kreling and in 1857 organized the purchase of the Scherleinsgarten for the Marienvorstadt complex for the city .

From 1861 to 1893, Seiler was the second mayor with the first mayors Maximilian von Wächter and Otto Stromer von Reichenbach at the head of the city administration. In this function, he was primarily concerned with urban finance and made a name for himself as a proven administrative expert during these years. His activities were characterized by urbanization and industrialization as well as the Prussian occupation as a result of the German War of 1866 .

In the 1880s, Seiler had to give up his goal of creating sustainable cover for current household needs and thus avoiding the city becoming indebted in the course of necessary major projects (water supply, school building, sewerage , slaughterhouse). On Seiler's initiative, the formation of a beautification committee and the establishment of the city gardening department (horticultural department) go back. From 1860 he was also at the head of the Albrecht Dürer Association . In 1861, as the second member of the board, he was significantly involved in the organization of the German Singing Festival.

In the course of the discussion about the demolition of the Nuremberg city fortifications, he strongly advocated its preservation. Seiler was the first local civil servant to be made an honorary citizen of the city when he retired in 1893. He is buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

His sons were the sculptor and painter Johannes Seiler (1871–1954) and Christoph Seiler, co-owner of the Nuremberg Art Institute Johann Balthasar Stieber GmbH.

Honors

Fonts

  • Insights into the Nuremberg city budget from 1818 onwards . Nuremberg 1868.
  • A new company program for the city of Nuremberg . Nuremberg 1888.
  • The extraordinary undertakings to be carried out in the period up to 1900 . Nuremberg 1892.

literature

  • Christoph von Seiler . In: CVs from Franconia Volume 2, 1922, pp. 406–417.
  • Oskar Schneider: Seiler, Christoph von . In: Christoph von Imhoff: Famous Nuremberg residents from nine centuries . 2nd edition 1989.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 411.

Archival material

  • Nuremberg City Archives, C 7 / I No. 2400; E 1.
  • StBN, Gen. Ropes 136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II, Erlangen 1936, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Susanna Partsch : Gnauth, Adolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 294.
personal data
SURNAME Seiler, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiler, Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Alphons; Seiler, Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Alphons from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Second Mayor of Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1904
Place of death Nuremberg