Seiller (noble family)
The Barons von Seiller are a family of lower nobility from southern Styria , whose direct line of tribe goes back to Kaspar Seiller .
history
Kaspar Seiller was kuk court and court advocate in Marburg an der Drau and died there in 1815. His son Johann Kaspar von Seiller (1802–1888) was kuk court and court advocate in Vienna and president of the Vienna City Council . In this position he was raised to the Austrian knighthood with the award of the Leopold Order on March 15, 1850 in Vienna . In the next function Johann Kaspar von Seiller was mayor of Vienna and was raised to the Austrian baron on January 19, 1860 with a diploma from April 6, 1860 . Motto: "Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo."
Johann Kaspar's brother Anton Seiller was an entrepreneur (wholesaler and factory owner) in Lower Styria and Krain (today's Slovenia) and in Timisoara / Banat . This branch of the family has meanwhile expired.
With the Nobility Repeal Act of 1919, the nobility themselves and the nobility designations have expired in Austria . Some descendants still live in Vienna today, their family name being Seiller without "von".
Important family members
- Johann Kaspar von Seiller (1802–1888), 1851–1861 mayor of Vienna
- Aloys von Seiller (1833–1918), kuk secret council, envoy
- Anton von Seiller (1835–1908), director of the Pottendorfer cotton spinning mill
- Viktor von Seiller (1880–1969), Imperial and Royal Councilor, Austrian military attaché in Rome, lieutenant colonel in the general staff
- Erich Bielka (1908–1992, son of Hedwig von Seiller), Austrian diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria 1974–1976
- Mario Seiller-Tarbuk (1925–2008), businessman, board member of FM Tarbuk & Co. AG
- Marina Seiller-Nedkoff (1944–), artist
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau and Otto Gruber (coat of arms drawings): Mayor of Vienna. In: Austrian Wappenalmanach. Self-published by Adler, Vienna 1969.
- Cajetan Felder: Memories of a Mayor of Vienna. Forum Verlag, Vienna 1964.
- Felix Czeike: Vienna and its mayors. Seven centuries of Viennese city history. Youth and People, Vienna 1974.
- Felix Czeike: The great Groner Vienna Lexicon. Vienna 1974.
- Felix Czeike: History of the City of Vienna. Vienna 1981.
- Brigitte Hamann: Elisabeth, reluctant Empress. Vienna 1981.
Web links
- Search results for Seiller on the Geneall.net website .