Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Seippel

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Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Seippel (born May 17, 1788 in Hamm an der Sieg ; † June 17, 1850 there ) was a German Protestant pastor. He was godfather , confirmator and most important educator of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen .

Life

His father Johann Konrad Seippel (born January 10, 1731 in Butzbach ; † November 7, 1794 in Hamm (Sieg)) was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Hamm an der Sieg from 1774 to 1794 . His mother Maria Regina Garenfeld (* December 1744 in Eckenhagen ; † April 15, 1798 in Hamm (Sieg)) died when he was nine years old. He was then raised by an uncle, Ludwig Wilhelm Molly, pastor of the Reformed community in Hamm. Seippel studied at the High School in Herborn , was ordained on November 10, 1810 and was then first second pastor in Dierdorf . In February 1815 he succeeded his uncle, who moved to Schöneberg , to become pastor of the Reformed community in Hamm. After the Reformed and Lutheran congregation merged to form the Evangelical Church Community of Hamm in 1819, Seippel was the sole pastor of the now uniate congregation from 1828 .

Georg Wilhelm Seippel was committed to helping the poor in his community: in 1817, following a call from Joseph Görres, he and his pastor colleague founded one of the first aid associations to give poorer community members free or cheaper bread. The first aid association founded by FW Raiffeisen in Weyerbusch was organized in a similar way and was probably founded in memory of the descriptions by Seippel.

The poor relief was then the task of the pastor. For a time, however, the state had taken over it as a communal task, for which it also used the money from the church's offering box. When the task was delegated back to the parishes, it was unclear to whom the funds from the offering box belonged due to incompletely clarified competencies. Since Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Seippel lacked funds for poor relief, he broke open the church sacrificial stock in order to send the contents to those in need. As a result of this action there was a procedure before the Prussian High Presidium of the Rhine Province, about the outcome of which there are no records that have survived.

Because FW Raiffeisen was unable to attend school again after primary school for financial reasons, a position in the Prussian military was decided as the best alternative for him. Since he could only enter there at the age of 17, he was privately taught by Seippel in the three years prior to that in the subjects of German, history, modern languages ​​and mathematics.

Seippel was married to Sophie Charlotte Wilhelmine Altgelt (born November 10, 1787 in Neviges , † January 16, 1858 in Hamm (Sieg)) since October 28, 1821 . The marriage remained childless. He died on June 17, 1850, at 1:00 a.m. in Hamm.

Significance for Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

Werner Abresch called Seippel an "enthusiastic humanist in the age of Goethe", whose wish it was that Raiffeisen should study in order to then achieve something in the humanities. After this was not possible, his private lessons laid the roots for his future work.

Even Michael Klein sees a formative influence by Seippel in later social interaction of Raiffeisen. Upbringing according to the catechism laid the foundation for Raiffeisen's actions, which were strongly influenced by the idea of ​​duty.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Georg Wilhelm Henrich Seippel at heidermanns.net (accessed on November 20, 2016)
  2. ^ A b c d e Michael Klein : Life, work and aftermath of the founder of the cooperative, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen: (1818–1888) , Rheinland-Verlag, Pulheim 1997, ISBN 978-3-7927-1682-3 , pp. 9-12.
  3. ↑ Johann Konrad Seippel at heidermanns.net (accessed on November 20, 2016)
  4. ↑ Maria Regina Garenfeld at heidermanns.net (accessed on November 20, 2016)
  5. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Molly was in his second marriage to Seippel's aunt Regina Luisa Susanna
  6. ^ Ingrid Bauert-Keetman: Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen - A life for the future , Steinbock Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-921951-22-4 , p. 18.
  7. ↑ Werner Abresch, Friedhelm Kaiser: Future Winning , Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover, 1968, p. 53
personal data
SURNAME Seippel, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and educator of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm an der Sieg
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1850
Place of death Hamm an der Sieg