Wilhelm Seybold

Wilhelm Seybold

Josef Wilhelm Friedrich Seybold (born May 2, 1799 in Nordheim , † September 9, 1874 in Stuttgart ) was a landowner in Nordheim, a mill tenant in Heilbronn , Belgian consul and member of the Württemberg state parliament.

Life

In addition to four sisters, he was the only son of the court clerk Christian Gottfried Seybold (1757-1816) and Susanne Herrlinger (1763-1834). The father gave him to the boarding school of the Waldensian pastor Mulot in Nordhausen , where he acquired French language skills in particular . From 1813 he was an apprentice in a grocery store in Heilbronn . After completing his apprenticeship, he went to Antwerp as a trader and later to France. He increased his parents' already sizeable property in Nordheim by purchasing more land, which he had authorized agents do. After his mother's death in 1834, he returned to Nordheim to take care of the inheritance and to manage an estate based on his inheritance himself. In 1835 he married Amalie von den Velden (1808–1890) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1836 he settled in Heilbronn and had the property in Nordheim run by an administrator. In Heilbronn, he initially planned to open his own cloth factory, but was unable to do so. From 1837 to 1846 he was the tenant of the municipal grinding mill on the Hefenweiler in Heilbronn. In 1842 he became Belgian consul in Württemberg and Heilbronn, in 1850 he became Belgian consul in Stuttgart, when he abdicated in 1856 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold as Consul General hc .

In 1848 and 1849 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg as a member of Heilbronn . In 1849 he moved to Stuttgart. From 1851 to 1855 he was a member of the state parliament for the city of Ludwigsburg. At that time, he had the architect Georg von Morlok build a stately home on Nordheimer Marktplatz (today's Nordheimer Rathaus), which the family only lived in during the summer months, while Stuttgart remained their main residence. In the state parliament, Seybold advocated the introduction of weight instead of spatial dimensions for grain transport. He was a member of the advisory board of the Central Office for Trade and Industry, the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and the Royal Württemberg Railway Construction Commission. During the construction of the Northern Railway , he campaigned for the connection of Nordheim and Klingenberg to the railway network. In 1850 he was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal nobility was associated. In 1868 he was appointed Privy Councilor and in 1872 was awarded the Commentary Cross 2nd Class of the Order of Frederick . He died after a long illness in Stuttgart and was buried in the Prague cemetery.

His two daughters Agathe (1836–1917) and Clara (1845–1901) came from his marriage to Amalie von den Velden. In his will, Wilhelm Seybold determined a family entrepre- neurship in 1862 so that his possessions in Nordheim should remain undivided. In addition, he set up a foundation in Nordheim in 1867, which he provided with large funds and a building for the toddler school. The Fideikommiss possession finally came through inheritance to his great-grandson Kurt von Marval (1888–1980), who equipped the Von Marval'sche Family Foundation with it.

literature

• Karl Wagner: Kurt von Marval and his ancestors in Nordheim. From Marval'sche Family Foundation, Nordheim 1987
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 864 .