Seisser (merchant family)
Seisser (also Seißer ) is the name of a Bavarian merchant family who worked in the textile and food trade in Würzburg and Munich .
history
The family immigrated to Würzburg from Württemberg, Austria or South Tyrol in the 16th century. In 1585 or 1558 the name "Seusser" appears for the first time in Würzburg. The secured line of tribe begins with Johann-Conrad Seusser (Seißer) in 1638 with the reference that the family immigrated from Gundelsheim, but came from Tyrol. These documents from Haug Abbey were destroyed in 1945. The family had been in the cloth and silk trade since the 18th century, and later they also ran a fashion and textile trading company in downtown Würzburg with offices in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. The textile trading company M. Ph. Seisser, founded in 1773, was one of the oldest in its branch in Germany. One branch and several generations of the family had been active in the food trade in Munich since the 19th century, including Kathreiner ’s Malzkaffee, Unifranck and Allgäuer Alpenmilch .
Two members of the family were raised to the Bavarian nobility. The family was related and related by marriage to many long-established Würzburg and Bavarian merchant families, such as B. the Miegs (General Hans v. Mieg), the Völk as well as with the Sedlmayr families (Spaten-Bräu), Oberhummer and Kathreiner in Munich. They also had connections with members of well-known families of officials and professors, such as B. with the families of Adolf Strecker, Oliver von Leube, von Franque, the physician and biologist Valentin Leiblein and the anatomist Franz von Leydig .
coat of arms
A colored sketch (original in the Bavarian main state archive in Munich) of the Seisser's coat of arms, which was probably created in the Baroque era, was approved by the Ministerialrat in Royal Bay in 1885. State Ministry of Finance Andreas (v.) Seißer to the bay. Reichsherold submitted as Seisser's family coat of arms and adopted as personal coat of arms by the same on the occasion of its inclusion in the Bavarian nobility register after being awarded the Order of Merit of the bay. Crown. The Reichsherold accepted the coat of arms and adopted the family coat of arms for Andreas von Seißer without any change or increase in the nobility diploma in the lower class of the Bavarian nobility. Only the shape of the shield was historicized in the final diploma. In the diploma, the shield is bevelled and tilted sharply to the left (heraldic right). Since then, the coat of arms has been used in this form by the entire family. A picture of the coat of arms cast in metal was located on the back building of the company (M.Ph.) Seißer in Martinstraße until the renovation of the family's main house, the Würzburger Kürschnerhof, in 2007.
Known members
- Georg-Philipp Seisser (1749–1826), founder of the M. Ph. Seisser company (Würzburg)
- Michael-Philipp Seisser (1789-1859), namesake of the trading house M. Ph. Seisser, Councilor (Würzburg)
- Andreas von Seisser (1837–1911), President of the Bavarian State Bank (Munich)
- Ludwig Franz Barbarossa ("Louis") Seißer (1839–1926), commercial judge and banker, royal bay. Kommerzienrat (1902), (Würzburg and Munich)
- Ludwig Seisser (1866–1936), pharmacist and entrepreneur, kgl. Bay. Kommerzienrat (Munich)
- Michael-Philipp Seißer (1854–1943), secret councilor and wholesale merchant (Würzburg and Munich)
- Georg Seisser, Commercial Court Accessist, Commercial Council, (Würzburg)
- Rudolf Seisser, councilor, physician and researcher in Würzburg (Würzburg)
- Valerie Seisser (1862–1953), superior at the Red Cross in Munich, founder of the Red Cross Sisters in Würzburg
- Philipp Seisser, Medical Councilor, on the board of the Red Cross Clinic in Würzburg
- Hans von Seißer (1874–1973), President of the Bavarian State Police (Munich)
- Franz Philipp Seisser, chief physician at the Würzburg women's clinic
- Adolph Seisser (1898–1979), owner of the textile company Völk in Würzburg, member of the board of directors of Kathreiners Malzkaffe-Fabriken, Munich
- Paul Seisser, General Manager of the IHK in Würzburg
- Anton Franz Seisser († 1966), textile merchant, Würzburg city council from 1933 to 1945, member of the board of directors of Kathreiners Malzkaffe-Fabriken, Munich
- Rolf Seisser (1922–2019), association official (Frankfurt)
swell
- State Ministry of Finance (Hrsg.): Finance ministerial sheet for the Free State of Bavaria . 1906.
- Bavarian court calendar . Munich 1911.
- Würzburg diocesan history sheets . tape 58 .
- Josef Balduin Kittel: An old Würzburg trading house: Seisser department store . 1922.
- Gerhart Nebinger, Fritz Sigether: Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria . Degener, 1952.
- Brochure of the company Seisser Modesalon national costumes and loden clothes . Univers.-Druckerei Würzburg (around 1920).
- Seisser fashion house (Würzburg), Charlotte Breyer: Two hundred years of Seisser . Mainpr.-Verlag, 1973.
- Werner Dettelbacher: Back then in Würzburg: Photo documents from the period 1914–1945 . Würzburg 1971, ISBN 3-8003-0050-8 .
- Werner Dettelbacher: Würzburg: the years after 1945 . Würzburg 1974, ISBN 3-8003-0084-2 .
- Werner Dettelbacher: Memory of Old Würzburg: Photo documents from the period 1866-1914 . Stürtz, Würzburg, ISBN 3-8003-0045-1 .
- Otto Handwerker: The three hundred and fifty anniversary of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1932 . Stütz, 1932.
- DAV, Würzburg section (ed.): Members lists . (around 1919).
- Berlin clinical weekly . tape 54 .
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? tape 10 . Verlag Herrmann Degener, 1935.
- Mieg's Chronicle . Würzburg (private property, Gauting, around 1910).
- Akt Bay HST Archive, Munich Akt 46950
- The successors of Franz Kathreiner from Munich . Family chronicle. Own print (private collection, Gauting, around 1920).