Gotthold Samuel Abraham seaman

Gotthold Samuel Abraham Seemann (born January 9, 1772 in Frankfurt an der Oder , † November 10, 1835 in Goldap , East Prussia ) was a Prussian educator and administrative officer.

Life

(in other sources called "Gotthilf" or "Gottfried" instead of Gotthold) Seemann's father Gotthilf Abraham Seemann, who died in 1783, was a Protestant chief preacher at Frankfurt's Nicolaikirche , his mother was Christiane Louise Holzinger. Seemann studied theology at the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt . Since Easter Monday 1794 he preached several times at the Frankfurt upper church. After completing his studies in theology, he became a private tutor to a noble family in Fraustadt . In 1795 he went to Berlin , where he taught at the Hartung Private School and the Dittmarschen Private School. He then worked as a private tutor to the son of General Friedrich Wilhelm Christian von Zastrow , in whose house he spent several years.

Under the influence of the general, Seemann gave up his work as a teacher and entered the military. He was in Bartenstein v regimental quartermaster of the newly formed infantry regiment. Courbiere. From there he was transferred to Goldap . Here he married a Dorothea Wilhelmina Caroline v. Gufer. After the outbreak of the Third Coalition War , the regiment went to Königsberg i. Pr. , Then to Danzig , where it withstood the French siege, and after the end of the war to Graudenz . There he said goodbye and returned to his family in Goldap.

In the following year, Seemann took over the post of police mayor of Gumbinnen . Then he held the office of district director. From Gumbinnen he was transferred to Tilsit as district director in 1814 . Due to an administrative reform in 1818 he lost this office because he was not a landowner and was forced to work for a while in Gumbinnen in a lower position for the government. He was advised to take the law exam and his new place of employment was Posen or Koblenz . Out of consideration for his wife and children, he did not want to change location. He hoped to increase his income by buying a small country estate, but the management of the estate did not bring him any profit. One advantage, however, was that as a landowner he could now be employed as a district administrator in Goldap.

In the office of District Administrator in Goldap, which he held with great energy and conscientiousness, he devoted himself in particular to the fight against poverty in the district, which he traveled by horse and cart as often as possible; he knew almost every resident citizen of the district personally. He suffered a severe personal setback in 1834 when his house burned down in Goldap.

Seemann died in 1835 of complications from pneumonia . With his wife he had three sons (August Adolph S. 1803, another unknown name and Ludwig Eduard Werner S. 1802-1894) and four daughters (Josephine * + 1805, Ida 1807, Ludewike Natalie 1810-1844, Amalie Alexandrine 1812) . His eldest son, who had studied and trained by traveling, was a landowner on Kraupischken near Tilsit. His second son had studied medicine and was a medical officer

Seemann's brother August Nathanael Friedrich Seemann * August 6, 1769 Frankfurt ad Oder +4. April 1825 was a private tutor and private scholar in Halberstadt and a well-known writer. He remained without offspring. His sister Johanne Seemann married Ehrenreich Wehmer, the successor of the father-in-law Gotthilf Abraham Seemann in the office of pastor of the Nicolaikirche.

literature

• New necrology of the Germans . Thirteenth year (1835), part II, Weimar 1837, pp. 979–981.