Ludwig Seiterich

Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Seiterich (born July 5, 1904 in Karlsruhe , † July 29, 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator in the districts of Waldshut and Konstanz .

Life

The son of a grand ducal court coach and brother of the later Archbishop of Freiburg, Eugen Seiterich, attended school in his home town of Karlsruhe and then studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg . He received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1929.

His professional path led him as a government assessor to the district office of Karlsruhe (1930 to 1931), to the Oberversicherungsamt Freiburg (1931 to 1932) and, for a short time, to the district office of Neustadt. From 1932 to 1934, Seiterich was a councilor for the city of Karlsruhe, before he was transferred to the district office of Lörrach in 1934, first as a government assessor, then as a councilor. In 1938 he was transferred to the Emmendingen District Office, where he held a position as a government councilor until 1946, but served most of the time as a war administrator in Belgium , northern France and Italy . In the period between 1933 and 1945, Seiterich was politically discriminated against for his commitment to Catholicism.

After a short American captivity, Seiterich was released in September 1945 and returned to the District Office of Emmendingen as a provisional district administrator . In 1946 he was transferred to the Baden Ministry of the Interior in Freiburg, where he was first a councilor and then a senior councilor until 1949.

In 1949 Seiterich became district administrator in the district of Waldshut and was then district administrator in the district of Konstanz from 1954 until his retirement in 1968. For a period of five months he was also district administrator in Waldshut and in Constance.

In addition to his main job as district administrator, Seiterich had taken on numerous part-time tasks. So he was:

• Founding chairman of the regional planning association Westlicher Bodensee-Linzgau-Hegau (1957)
• Lecturer for civics at the women's class II of the Radolfzell women's college (from 1958)
• Member of the Presidium of the Baden-Württemberg District Assembly (Deputy Chairman; 1966–1968 Chairman)
• Member of the German District Assembly
• Member of the television council of the Second German Television

natural reserve

As Constance district administrator, Seiterich was strongly committed to nature conservation. The preservation of the cultural landscape was a particular concern of his, and so it is essential to him that large parts of the western shore of Lake Constance have been preserved and are freely accessible to this day. As a district administrator, he designated the landscape protection areas of Bodanrück and Höri and was significantly involved in the designation of the nature reserve Bodenseeufer, whereby he had to face fierce resistance.

Honors

• 1967: 40th anniversary in public service
• 1966: Felix von Hornstein Medal for services to landscape and people
• 1967: Alexander von Humboldt Medal for successful work in the interests of nature conservation
• 1967: Decoration in gold of the German Red Cross for his work as 1st chairman in the DRK district association in Konstanz
• 1968: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1976: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Fonts

• District directorate and district government in the former Grand Duchy of Baden and the historical development of their responsibilities . Dissertation University of Freiburg 1929. Also in: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. NF Vol. 42
• Words . Hegau 20:226. 1965
• The stars have faded, the songs fade away . Memories. Dörzbach 1968
• 16 years of regional planning on Lake Constance . Volume 13: Linzgau Planning Association for West Lake Constance. Edited by the planning community Westlicher Bodensee, Linzgau, Hegau. 1973

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 526-527 .
• Bruno Helmle: Laudation on the occasion of the farewell to District Administrator Dr. Ludwig Seiterich on May 2, 1968. Hegau 25: 245-246. 1968.
• Herbert Berner: District Administrator Dr. Retired Ludwig Seiterich. Hegau 25: 241-242. 1968
• Alfred Diesbach: Address on the 60th birthday of District Administrator Dr. Ludwig Seiterich. Hegau 25: 242-245. 1968
• Werner Dierks: Consecration and handover of the Hegau cross to District Administrator Dr. Ludwig Seiterich on May 7, 1968 on the Sickerberg near Weiterdingen. Hegau 25: 247-249. 1968
• Philipp Brucker: Farewell to Dr. Seiterich. Archaeological news from Baden 23: 31-32. 1979
• Franz Götz: Dr. Ludwig Seiterich (1904-1979) . Hegau 24/25: 172-177 1979/1980.
• Franz Götz: Dr. Ludwig Seiterich (1904-1979) . Hegau 56: 289-296. 1999
• Bärbel Häcker: 50 years of nature conservation history in Baden-Württemberg . 305 pages, Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-4472-7

Web links

• Works by and about Ludwig Seiterich  in the German Digital Library
• Entry in the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Ruck : Corpsgeist and State Consciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972 , Munich, 1996, p. 234
2. ↑ Portrait of the Baden-Württemberg District Assembly (PDF; 55 kB)