Eugen von Seyfried

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Eugen Maria von Seyfried (born February 2, 1816 in Salem ; † December 15, 1889 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Life

Eugen von Seyfried was the son of the margravial councilor and grand ducal chief bailiff Willibald von Seyfried . When the father died in 1824, his widowed mother was left with six children, of whom Eugen von Seyfried was the second oldest. As a half-orphan he began his studies in Ravensburg, where he was in the care of his uncle Franz von Zwerger . In 1829 he went to the Lyceum in Constance . He then began to study law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . During his studies in 1834 he became a member of the Euthymia Freiburg fraternity . With Bernhard von Beck he became active in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg in 1836 . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1837 he passed the legal state examination with distinction and was a legal intern at the Heiligenberg Office from 1838 to 1839. After a brief assignment at the Baden Oberpostdirektion, he went to France for half a year in 1840 to further deepen his legal studies. French civil law was the inspiration for the Baden land law , which has been in force since 1810 . He then came to the court of Konstanz as a secretarial trainee , where he was appointed secretary in 1845. In 1847 he was transferred to the Mannheim court as assessor , where in 1849 he took over the duties of public prosecutor. In 1851 he was promoted to court judge and in 1852 he also took over the business of public prosecutor at the Badischer Oberhofgericht .

In 1853 Eugen von Seyfried was appointed ministerial advisor to the Baden Ministry of Justice in Karlsruhe, where he remained active until 1886.

In 1865 he was appointed as a secret trainee, in 1872 as a privy councilor, second class, in 1878 as a presiding council and in 1884 as a ministerial director. His tasks included the preparation of drafts for numerous state laws, which were necessary in the first instance in particular due to the separation of the judiciary from the administration in 1857, their presentation in the two chambers of the Baden Estates Assembly and their executive ordinances.

From 1854 to 1884 Seyfried was a member of the board of directors of the widows' fund for employees and from 1865 to 1886 he was also a member of the board of directors of the widow general and fire fund. In 1886 he became President of the Baden Administrative Court. In 1887 he also took the position of President of the Competence Court. In 1889 he was appointed Privy Councilor, First Class.

politics

From 1887 to 1888 Seyfried was appointed member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly by Grand Duke Friedrich and initially served as 1st Vice-President in 1887, and shortly thereafter as President of the Chamber until 1888.

Max Honsell , who was also appointed by the Grand Duke as a member of the First Chamber from 1904 to 1906 and Minister of Finance in 1906, is his nephew, and his father-in-law Bernhard August Prestinari is a long-time colleague in the Baden ministerial authority and also a member of the first and, previously, the second chamber.

family

Eugen von Seyfried had been born with Anna since 1846 . Schalk married, who died in 1860. In 1865 Seyfried married Thusnelda Schalk , the sister of his first wife. In 1889 Seyfried fell ill and died with his children and grandchildren as a result of an operation that had become necessary.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 35 , 214.
  2. ↑ Lilly Braumann-Honsell : Small world - big world! Oberbadische Verlagsanstalt Merk & Co., K.-G., Konstanz, 1938, pp. 35-36, 229
personal data
SURNAME Seyfried, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyfried, Eugen Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1889
Place of death Karlsruhe