Seidel (gardener family)

The listed botanical collections of azaleas and camellias at Castle Beimendorf in Pirna are based on the breeding of several generations of the Seidel family.

The gardener family Seidel has been a Saxon family that has been active since the 18th century , and has become internationally known for breeding new varieties of azaleas , camellias and rhododendrons . Through their work, Dresden and the surrounding area established themselves for a long time as the center of horticulture in German-speaking countries. Several family members were Saxon court gardeners and designed various parks and gardens in the city of Dresden sustainably, such as The Duchess Garden .

Family roots

Epitaph Christoph Seydels at the Radeberg Church

The origins of the Seidel family (initially also in the Seydel spelling ) can be found in Bohemia . In the 17th century, during the Thirty Years' War , the family was forced to leave their homeland for religious reasons and to move to Saxony. The city of Radeberg near Dresden initially became the new residence of the Seydel family.

Christoph Seydel

Christoph Seydel (1670–1747), born in Seidenberg in what is now the Polish part of Upper Lusatia, was originally a carpenter , at the same time he was considered an experienced mineralogist . From 1707 he became mayor of Radeberg, in the then usual annual change with the vice-mayors he held this office until 1744. After the devastating city fire of July 13, 1714, he looked for suitable materials for reconstruction in the area around the city. In a wooded right side valley of the Große Röder , the Tannengrund , he came across old mining tunnels in 1717. Together with private investors, he resumed mining activities, but found neither enough building materials nor the precious metals also suspected there. Instead, he discovered a healing spring in one of the tunnels in 1717 and opened a spa in 1719. This facility , later called Augustusbad , helped him and the area to become nationally known for several centuries. In his honor, the north-eastern Radeberger bypass, built in 1993, between Badstrasse and Pulsnitzer Strasse was named "Christoph-Seydel-Strasse".

Johann Georg

Christoph's son, Johann Georg Seydel (1709–1775), was entrusted with gardening and landscaping tasks in his father's spa in addition to his job as a “mechanic” and instrument maker. After Christoph's death, Johann Georg's eldest brother, Johann Christoph, took over the management of the bath, the other siblings received their shares. Johann Georg, who in addition to his duties in the Augustusbad also owned a small gardening business, left Radeberg with his family in 1751 and moved to Dresden, where he was the tenant and landlord of the inn "Zum last Heller" in the Dresden district of Hellerberge , then in the tavern “Green Door” worked in Dresden's Friedrichstadt . In the first years of the family in Dresden, the spelling of the surname changed from Seydel to Seidel .

First generation: Johann Heinrich

Johann Heinrich

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Johann Heinrich Seidel (1744–1815) is considered the "father of Dresden horticulture". He completed an apprenticeship as a gardener with Johann Jeremias Unger, the electoral art gardener of the Great Garden in Dresden. After seven years of journeyman migration through Europe, he worked in the Duchess Garden in Dresden, where he acted as the electoral court gardener from 1779. Under his direction one of the largest European plant collections of that time was created. Catalogs from 1806 list 4300 plant species and varieties in Johann Heinrich Seidel's collection. He was also one of the first German gardeners to take up camellia breeding. Johann Heinrich Seidel had several personal contacts with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who studied Seidel's plant collection and his specialist knowledge and used it as a source of information for his scientific work The Metamorphosis of Plants . After Seidel's death, Goethe kept his plant directories in his Weimar library.

Second generation: the sons of Johann Heinrich

Four sons also learned the trade of gardener from Johann Heinrich's descendants. Jacob Friedrich and Traugott Leberecht founded the Seidel gardening business, Carl August took over his position as court gardener and Gottlob Friedrich opened a commercial gardening business in Dresden. Two of Johann Heinrich's daughters married other court gardeners.

Traugott Leberecht and Jacob Friedrich - the Seidel nursery

Jacob Friedrich

Jacob Friedrich (1790–1860) completed a horticultural training in 1810 in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Legend has it that he came back to Germany as a soldier in Napoleon's service during the Russian campaign in 1812 , where he deserted and went back to Dresden. He is said to have brought three camellia plants in his backpack, which formed the basis of his plant breeding; However, this tradition is not sufficiently historically documented. According to other research, Seidel left Paris as a civilian. Since Johann Heinrich describes a blooming camellia in one of his catalogs as early as 1792, the basic stock of Jacob Friedrich's camellia breeding probably comes from his father's inventory, who had been selling camellias since 1807.

In 1813 he and his brother Traugott Leberecht (1775-1858) leased a plot of land on Kleine Plauenschen Gasse in Dresden's Seevorstadt district and on June 24 that year founded an ornamental plant nursery, the first German commercial nursery to specialize in ornamental plants . Seidel's gardening is considered to be the cornerstone of horticulture in Saxony. Initially, the Seidel brothers dealt with many different types of plants, but just a few years after the founding they specialized in the cultivation of camellias, and later also on azaleas and other rhododendrons. In 1819, Seidel's nursery was relocated to the Pirnaische Vorstadt due to lack of space . A one hectare nursery was built on the Äußere Rampischen Gasse .

Traugott Leberecht married a woman from Vienna . By the year 1825, he moved there over and opened in the suburb of Penzing one camellias and azaleas trade, he also ran a camellias eatery in town. Guests in his nursery and restaurant included the Austrian Emperor Franz I and Marie-Louise of Austria . Traugott Leberecht's varieties based on the Dresden plants were honored with several awards at the first public plant show in Vienna in 1827.

Nursery with a magnificent glass house on Äußere Rampischen Gasse

Jacob Friedrich took over the company in Dresden. The business grew steadily, so that the nursery had to be enlarged several times. In 1827, Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach visited the nursery together with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who had already corresponded with the brothers' father, and was enthusiastic about the camellia breeding. The number of camellia varieties was constantly expanded under the direction of Jacob Friedrich. In 1824 19 varieties were listed. After 50 varieties in 1830, the number rose to 308 varieties by 1836. The largest number of varieties on offer was reached in 1862 with 1100. For economic reasons, the number of varieties was reduced to 500; under the management of his son Hermann, 190 varieties were still recorded in 1894. Seidel began with the cultivation of individual special camellias. The cultivars of the Seidel nursery quickly gained national recognition, Jacob Friedrich was popularly referred to as "Camellia Seidel". In 1842 it had 100,000 plants, this number grew to 136,000 plants in 1849. In order to make his cultivars known internationally, Jacob Friedrich took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and organized his own flower shows in Dresden. Seidelsche Gärtnerei exported camellias to Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia and today's Ukraine. In 1852 Jacob Friedrich built the so-called “magnificent glass house” in his nursery, a 23-meter-long, 10-meter-wide and 8.50-meter-high building made of steel and glass, in which he set an English park landscape with various camellias, azaleas and other rhododendrons set up and made available to the public.

In addition to camellias, Seidel also traded azaleas. The catalog of 1836 listed twelve varieties, in 1846 the number had already increased to 200. The now known Erika was first listed in Germany in a Seidel catalog in 1846.

Carl August

Carl August Seidel (1782–1868), like Johann Heinrich, learned the profession of art gardener. He initially worked as an adjunct for his father in the Duchess Garden until he took over the post of court gardener in 1815 after his death. Carl August's most important field of activity was the maintenance of the orangery and the fight against the so-called orange disease , damage to the citrus plants that had already erupted at the old location of the orangery in the kennel . He published his findings in dealing with the plant disease in 1842 in the book Detailed instructions for the correct care and treatment of large orangeries .

Thank God Friedrich

Gottlob Friedrich Seidel (1779-1851) opened his market gardening and seed shop in the Grünen Gasse in the Wilsdruffer suburb (today Green Street) in the immediate vicinity of the Duchess Garden , where his father Johann Heinrich and later his brother Carl August worked as court gardeners. In addition to herbal and vegetable seeds, Gottlob Friedrich also sold ornamental plants such as camellias, begonias and various heather plants . In addition to the gardening, Gottlob Friedrich was also active as the author of various essays and writings. His most important work is considered to be The Exotic Gardener, or the way the English treat and propagate the plants in the greenhouses , a translation and expansion of the English original by John Cushing, which was published in several editions between 1818 and 1825.

Third generation: Traugott Jacob Hermann

Seidel's nursery in Striesen

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Hermann Seidel (1833–1896), the son of Jacob Friedrich, took over the business of Seidel's nursery in 1860. During his apprenticeship years in England and France, he had learned about breeds of hardy rhododendrons, which were still unknown in Germany at the time, and began to cultivate them in his homeland. In 1865 he relocated the nursery to Striesen for reasons of space , which in the following years became internationally known as the most influential breeding location for azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons in the German-speaking region. His varieties were shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , among others . King Albert of Saxony wanted to give Hermann the title of Kommerzienrat for the organization of the 1st International Horticultural Exhibition in 1887 , but the latter refused with the words "I will remain the old art and commercial gardener Seidel, who I was before". The Striesener nursery has been expanded several times over the decades, among other things Seidel acquired a pine forest in which he cultivated his rhododendrons and which he named "Sansibar" because of the location at the time on the edge of the inhabited areas. The Hermann Seidel Park has been located on this part of the former nursery in Striesen since the 1920s . In Laubegast a street was named after Hermann in 1897.

After the first German azalea cultivation by the Dresden gardener Ludwig Leopold Liebig in 1843, Seidel was the second German gardener to bring his own azalea cultivation onto the market in 1867. From 1884 Seidel introduced an azalea refinement on the rhododendron variety Cunninghams White , which quickly became established as a new refinement base and led to a leap in quality and thus to the displacement of the previously strong Belgian competition. Three varieties of Seidel azaleas from 1890 are now part of the collection in Castle Beimendorf . The variety in the collection, Frau Hermann Seidel (1880), comes from the Mardner brothers, plant breeders from Mainz.

Fourth and fifth generation: the descendants of Hermann

Hermann's sons Traugott Jacob Rudolf (1861–1918) and Traugott Jacob Heinrich (1864–1934) began to work in their father's gardening business in 1883 and 1889, respectively. In 1885, Rudolf and his father transported over 2,000 rhododendron plants, including 30 varieties they had grown themselves, to the capital by train in eight wagons for an exhibition in Berlin's Central Hotel , where they planted a 520 square meter area in the hotel's winter garden. Rudolf and Heinrich acquired a large area in Laubegast while their father was still alive and established the new location for the family nursery there in 1893. At the beginning of the 20th century, the company was significantly expanded when it took over the neighboring Helbigschen nursery in 1902.

After Hermann's death, Traugott Jacob Rudolf and Traugott Jacob Heinrich also acquired a large moorland on the Wasserstrich between Grüngräbchen and Schwepnitz in 1897 , on which they began to plant rhododendrons. On January 1, 1900, the brothers split up the company. Heinrich took over the Dresden business and Rudolf has been running the business in Grüngräbchen ever since.

Hermann's daughter Rosalie married into the gardening dynasty Bouché .

Dresden branch: Traugott Jacob Heinrich, Traugott Jacob Otto Herbert and Frieda Seidel

Seidelsche nursery in Laubegast

On the company's 100th anniversary in 1913, the TJ Seidel horticultural company in Laubegast was 15 hectares in size, had 84 greenhouses and employed more than 125 people in the summer months. Existing documents show a stock of 500,000 azaleas (130,000 of which are ready for sale per year), 120,000 camellias (30,000 ready for sale), 35,000 rhododendrons (10,000 ready for sale) and 20,000 ericas sold annually. Heinrich Seidel was appointed Knight First Class of the Albrecht Order on the occasion of the anniversary . The outbreak of the First World War almost brought the nursery to a standstill. The loss of exports, especially those to Russia, had a major impact on Seidel's economic situation. Plant production was severely restricted and, to a large extent, switched to the cultivation of useful plants. However, Heinrich succeeded in working with his brother-in-law Friedrich Bouché to preserve the cultivated varieties.

Traugott Jacob Heinrich's son Traugott Jacob Otto Herbert (1896–1941) joined the management team in 1921. After the hyperinflation in 1923 , Seidel developed the nursery again into a successful and respected company. With the Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture , he organized the horticultural exhibition in Dresden in 1926, which more than three million people visited within six months. An advertisement from 1926 describes the Seidelsche Gärtnerei as “the oldest and largest mail order nursery in Dresden special cultivations”, which grows plants in “90 greenhouses, 34 heatable cold frames and other cultural facilities” on an area of ​​16 hectares. 150,000 azaleas, 10,000 more rhododendrons, 30,000 camellias, 25,000 heather and 15,000 palm trees were given as the annual number of plants to be sold by the nursery . Herbert was the first chairman of the "Association of Azalea, Camellia and Erik Breeders in Germany", founded in 1929, which had committed itself to promoting practical plant protection. After the death of his father in 1934, Herbert took over the company. He continued an assortment of 63 camellia varieties. The 1938 sales figures show 175,000 azaleas, 35,000 camellias, 5,000 rhododendrons, 15,000 ericas and 45,000 hydrangeas. After Herbert's death in 1941, his widow Frieda Seidel (1899–1986) ran the nursery until it was closed after World War II . The Seidel varieties were largely preserved during the war.

Grüngräbchener branch: Traugott Jacob Rudolf and Traugott Jacob Herrmann

Seidel rhododendron cultivations from Grüngräbchen, 1903

Traugott Jacob Rudolf began growing hardy rhododendrons in Grüngräbchen in 1897. The original varieties came from the Dresden nursery. The average temperature in Grüngräbchen, which was about 4 degrees Celsius below that in Dresden, and the boggy soil formed an ideal basis for the rhododendrons. In the winter of 1899/1900, temperatures fell to minus 30 degrees Celsius, which meant that only really hardy varieties survived. Rudolf used these to cross new hybrids . In Grüngräbchen, the change from rhododendron cultivation as a special culture in the sense of an ornamental plant to a tree nursery culture took place. Rudolf's rhododendron breeding quickly gained international renown, for example his plants were honored at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . A special train was used between Grüngräbchen and the venue for the 1904 International Art Exhibition and Large Horticultural Exhibition in Düsseldorf's Rheinpark Golzheim , which transported rhododendron plants up to three meters high in nine wagons. Rudolf was in contact with the Russian Tsar Nicholas II , and the last German Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of his customers. A plant population of 300,000 has been handed down for 1910. In the same year the company was renamed "TJ Rudolf Seidel, garden management Grüngräbchen".

After Rudolf's death in 1918, his son Traugott Jacob Herrmann (1890–1957) took over the business in Grüngräbchen and continued breeding hardy rhododendron hybrids. As early as 1920, plant production had returned to the pre-World War II level. Seidel also prepared the nursery for the public. For the 1930s, daily visitor numbers of up to 3,000 were recorded during the rhododendron bloom. The last crossings for the time being were made by Herrmann in 1938. Due to war and imprisonment, Herrmann came to the western part of Germany, where he died on July 26, 1957 in Hanover.

Rosalie Bouché (née Seidel)

Rosalie (left) with family

Hermann's daughter Rosalie Seidel (1867-1945) linked the business of Seidel with those originally from Berlin coming gardeners Dynasty Bouché . In 1895 she married the Royal Saxon Obergarten Director Friedrich Bouché , who made a name for himself primarily through the maintenance and expansion of the Great Garden , as a founding member of the Association of German Garden Artists and as chairman of the Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture . The couple had a daughter (Johanna, 1896–1957). During the First World War , the Seidel-Bouché connection made it possible to use the court gardening facility at Pillnitz Castle as a breeding and wintering location for the Seidel plant varieties and as a teaching and research facility. In this way, the Seidels' breeds were preserved, since all other nurseries had to switch their production to useful plants due to the war. The Pillnitz collection formed a basis for the flora of the camellia castle in Beimendorf .

After Rosalie, the Seidel rhododendron breeding Mrs. Rosalie Seidel was named, which the Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung in 1885 described as "an important advance in the series of white-flowering rhododendrons".

Sixth and seventh generation: the family business from 1945 to the present

After the Second World War, the nursery in Laubegast was expropriated and incorporated into a state-owned company. Plant cultivation was resumed at the Grüngräbchen site and has continued to the present day.

Wolfgang Seidel (* 1928), son of the last Seidel owner of the Dresden nursery, opened a tree nursery near Sala in Sweden in 1968 , which his descendants have continued to this day (as of 2013).

Dresden branch

The Dresden branch of the company was confiscated in the post-war period and expropriated by a referendum in Saxony in 1946 . Until 1949 the company was run as the "Dresden Azalea and Camellia Cultures", after which it was transferred to a municipal business enterprise. From 1953 to 1967 the former Seidelsche Gärtnerei was part of the VEB (K) Gartenbau, after which it was affiliated to the VEG Saatzucht Zierpflanzen Erfurt. From 1984 to 1989 the former company was part of the VEG Saatzucht Zierpflanzen Dresden, after the fall of the Wall until it was finally dissolved by the Treuhandanstalt in 1990, it belonged to the Dresdner Pflanzen GmbH. The nationalized nursery continued to breed on the basis of the Seidel camellia varieties, in 1956 the camellias were designated by the Nossen Variety Office as the “GDR maintenance range”. After 1990 the area of ​​the nursery was built over with a residential complex. The gardeners of the state-owned company succeeded in transferring the Seidel plant varieties to the botanical collections at Castle Beimendorf .

Grüngräbchener branch: Ursula Seidel, Ludwig and Christian Schröder

In Grüngräbchen , unlike in Laubegast, the expropriation of the nursery was prevented with the help of the mayor after the Second World War. Herrmann's daughter Ursula Seidel (1917–1997) resumed breeding rhododendrons because her father, who had ended up in the British occupation zone as a prisoner of war, was unable to return to Grüngräbchen. Later her husband Ludwig Schröder (1915–2005) also joined the management. In 1986 they handed over the nursery to their son Christian (* 1955). At the “Dresdner Blumenfrühling” exhibition in 1988, numerous rhododendrons from green graves were shown on the subject of “175 years of Saxon moorland cultures”, which were then brought to the botanical collections at Palace Castle. After the fall of the Wall, different breeds were added again. The company operates today (as of 2017) under "T. J. Rud. Seidel rhododendron cultures ”. Plants are grown on an area of ​​five hectares, and old rhododendrons are found on another ten hectares. In total, more than 300 different rhododendrons grow in Grüngraben. One street in the village was named “Rudolf-Seidel-Straße” in honor of the founder of the Grüngräbchen branch of the company. During the heyday in late spring, the Grüngräbchener Härtnerei is a meeting point for thousands of visitors every year.

Family Achievements and Legacies

“Rhododendron forest” with annual plants in Grüngräbchen, 1912

The cultivations and activities of the gardening family had a decisive influence on the Dresden and Saxon horticulture for several centuries and in some cases continue to do so to the present day. In addition, the Seidel plants shape several botanical and genetic collections.

Horticultural location Dresden

Johann Heinrich had already laid the foundation stone for the so-called “Saxon bog bed cultures” in his plant collection. This was understood to mean plants that require similar soil conditions (in this case boggy, acidic soils), but belong to different families (camellias: tea bushes; rhododendrons and heather : heather plants ). The founding of Seidel's nursery in 1813 is considered to be the transition from the previously predominant court and hobby nurseries to art and commercial nurseries . The Seidel brothers were the first German ornamental plant breeders to commit themselves to a special culture with camellia breeding. Many other companies followed their example in the decades to come. In the 19th century, Dresden was the world's largest cultivation area for bog bed cultures. After Hermann moved the nursery to Striesen in 1865, the place developed into a center of Saxon horticulture. By 1890, a total of 52 art and commercial gardeners had settled. Both the worldwide exports of the cultivars, with which Jacob Friedrich began, as well as the presentation of the plants to the public at exhibitions and international trade fairs, ensured that Saxony, and especially Dresden, was considered a center of German horticulture for a long time.

The "Japan"

One of Seidel's developments that had a lasting influence on horticulture in Saxony was the so-called "Japan". The Japan was a special variant of a greenhouse that was mainly used in camellia breeding. The invention is dated to the time of Jacob Friedrich and his son Hermann. Who of the two was the actual inventor or whether they developed the Japan together is inconsistent in various sources. In order to safely overwinter the camellia breeds, the plants had to be stored at temperatures above freezing point. In order to avoid the financial burden that would have arisen from building the required heated greenhouses, Seidel had the camellias planted in large boxes, some of which were buried in the ground. In winter these were covered with boards and leaves, so only a small amount of heating was required. The name is said to come from a friend of the Seidel family who after a trip saw this type of planting in the nursery and exclaimed: "The camellias grow here like in Japan". The Japanese model successfully established itself in many Saxon horticultural companies and was used by nurseries and tree nurseries until the 20th century.

Flora - Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture

Seidel cultivations at the II. International Horticultural Exhibition Dresden 1896

The Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture ("Flora") was actively influenced by several generations of the Seidels. Jacob Friedrich supported the first plant shows in 1828 with several of his breeds and gave lectures on the cultivation of camellias. From 1843 to 1845 he held the post of the company's second director. He was therefore responsible for the organization and implementation of the annual spring and autumn botanical exhibitions in Dresden. Jacob Friedrich's son Hermann also became a member of the Flora. He was part of the Plant Novelty Review Committee , handled the company's financial affairs, and was instrumental in organizing the annual exhibitions. Hermann Seidel and the Flora achieved worldwide fame when they organized the 1st International Horticultural Exhibition in Dresden in 1887 . Hermann's sons Rudolf and Heinrich, also in collaboration with Flora, were the driving forces behind the organization of the international horticultural exhibitions in 1896 and 1907. After the First World War, Heinrich was also chairman of the examination board of the gardening school operated by Flora. Heinrich Seidel, together with Theodor Simmgen and Wilhelm von Uslar, planned the anniversary horticultural exhibition held by the company in 1926 . After the successful exhibition with over three million visitors, Seidel was made an honorary member of the society.

Horticultural training in Saxony

The Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture founded the "Horticultural School of the Society Flora" in 1874 after the gardening school of the Agricultural District Association of Dresden, which opened in 1856, was dissolved. At its general meeting in 1888, the Association of Saxon Horticultural Associations, to which Flora was also a member, demanded the establishment of an independent teaching facility to promote the training and further education of Saxon horticulturalists. The first higher horticultural school, which worked closely with the Dresden nurseries, was opened in Striesen in 1892. Rudolf Seidel, chairman of the Horticultural Association for the Kingdom of Saxony, emphasized in 1897 the need to give the students an insight into the horticultural businesses. Due to the great popularity, the educational establishment had to be enlarged in 1907 and was then relocated to Laubegast on the grounds of the Seidel nursery. This horticultural school was the forerunner of the “Höhere Staatslehranstalt” founded in 1922 in Pillnitz , which has existed to the present day as a technical school for agricultural engineering and horticulture .

Botanical collections

Camellia at Castle Beimendorf

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the palace in Pirna was renovated. The extensive botanical collections housed there afterwards are largely based on Seidel varieties. The camellia collection is considered to be the most important German gene library for this plant species. The basis for this collection was the camellia breeding of Johann Heinrich and his sons, which could be preserved by the following generations and which also survived the world wars and the nationalization of the company during the time of the GDR. The Azalea collection in Zuzendorf also goes back in part to Seidel breeding. During the First World War, these were housed in the royal gardening center in Pillnitz and continued to be bred there until the end of the 1980s, before they were brought to Schloss Beimendorf. The rhododendron collection in Beimendorf contains around 50 varieties from the Seidel nursery in Laubegast as well as numerous plants from the Grüngräbchen branch of the company. Since 1993 the Azalea and Camellia Collections in Zusendorf have been under monument protection and are owned by the Free State of Saxony.

The camellia collection at Koenigsbrück Castle , which is internationally known for having the oldest standing camellias in Europe, contains nine camellias that originally came from the Seidel collection at the time of the court gardening.

The company TJ Rud. Seidel Rhododendron Cultures in Grüngräbchen is a partner of the German Rhododendron Genebank , an initiative for the preservation and documentation of the diversity of rhododendrons that was founded in 2008 by the teaching and research institute for horticulture Bad Zwischenahn in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture and has been coordinated by the Bundessortenamt since 2014 .

In the collection of the Bad Zwischenahn teaching and research institute there are 110 Seidel rhododendron hybrids from Grüngräbchen.

family tree

Christoph Seydel (1670–1747) mayor, founder of the Augustusbad ; Radeberg (Mayor from 1707 to 1744)

Johann Georg (1709–1775) gardener (Augustusbad), florist, landlord; The family moves to Dresden

Johann Heinrich (1744–1815) court gardener, plant breeder; "Father of Dresden Horticulture" The Duchess Garden

Traugott Leberecht (1775–1858) commercial gardener, plant breeder; Founder of the Seidel nursery; Seevorstadt , later Pirnaische Vorstadt

Gottlob Friedrich (1779–1851) commercial gardener, seed dealer

Carl August (1782–1868) art gardener; Successor as court gardener

Jacob Friedrich (1790–1860) commercial gardener, plant breeder; "Kamellien-Seidel" founder of the Seidel nursery; Seevorstadt , later Pirnaische Vorstadt

Traugott Jacob Hermann (1833–1896) gardener, plant breeder; Hermann Seidel Park ; Striesen

Traugott Jacob Rudolf (1861–1918) commercial gardener, plant breeder; in Laubegast until 1900 , then move to Grüngräbchen

Traugott Jacob Heinrich (1864–1934) commercial gardener; Leaf guest

Rosalie Bouché b. Seidel (1867–1945) wife of Friedrich Bouché , ( gardener family Bouché )

Traugott Jacob Herrmann (1890–1957) commercial gardener

Traugott Jacob Otto Herbert (1896–1941) commercial gardener; Owner until 1941

Frieda Seidel born Rüger (1899–1986) Managing Director until 1946 ( expropriation and transfer to state-owned companies)

Ludwig Schröder (1915–2005) ran the business with his wife

Ursula Schröder born Seidel (1917–1997) took over the business after the Second World War

Christian Schröder (* 1955) since 1986 owner of T.J. Rud. Seidel Rhododendron cultures Grüngräbchen

literature

• Mustafa Haikal : The camellia forest . The story of a German nursery. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Sandstein Verlag , Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-942422-17-8 .
• Klaus Hofmann, Stephan Wartenberg, Enrico Bär: Ornamental plant cultivation in central Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries: considerations over 200 years of production and breeding . Ed .: State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology , State Association of Horticulture Saxony, Association of former Dresden-Pillnitzer. Laske-Druck, Pirna 2013, DNB  1033536520 (NA: Notschriften, Radebeul 2015, ISBN 978-3-945481-24-0 ).

Web links

• Saxon biography , search term Seidel
• Seidelsche Gärtnerei and Hermann-Seidel-Park on dresdner-stadtteile.de
• TJ Rud. Seidel rhododendron cultures

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} both, as also for his grandchildren Traugott Jacob Herrmann (1890-1957) in different sources of Hermann Seidel (1833-1896), the notation Herrmann and Hermann handed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lars Herrmann: Seidelsche Gärtnerei. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Radeberger Chronik 1550-1839 . Handwritten manuscript. Archive no. 00003476. Museum Schloss Klippenstein Radeberg
3. ↑ Friedrich Bernhard Störzner : How have discovered the healing springs Augustusbad at Radeberg . In: What the Heimat tells . Legends, historical images and memorable events from Saxony. Contributions to Saxon folklore and local history. Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, p.  39–41 ( What the Heimat tells on Wikisource ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Felix Pietschmann: Johann Heinrich Seidel . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
5. ↑ "If some man only knew who some man would be ..." History of the inn "To the last Heller". Archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 .  
6. ↑ Mustafa Haikal: The camellia forest. P. 17.
7. ↑ Mustafa Haikal: The camellia forest. P. 16 ff.
8. ↑ 200 years of growing ornamental plants in Saxony. P. 16.
9. ^ ^{A b c d e} Marion and Matthias Riedel: The "Kamellien-Seidel" was clever and original . In: Dresden University Journal . No. 5/2010 , March 16, 2010, p. 4 ( online as PDF; 1.8 MB).
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Camellias - The Seidel Camellias Collection. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .  
11. ↑ Mustafa Haikal: The camellia forest. P. 51 ff.
12. ↑ ^{a b} 200 years of ornamental plant cultivation in Saxony. P. 19 ff.
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