Wilhelm von Seldeneck

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Baron Wilhelm Rudolf von Seldeneck (born March 18, 1849 in Mühlburg , † March 3, 1925 in Karlsruhe ) was a German entrepreneur .

family

Wilhelm von Seldeneck was the only child of the Baden chamberlain Wilhelm von Seldeneck (born September 15, 1823 in Karlsruhe; † December 10, 1863 there) and his wife Jenny (born October 27, 1829 in Basel; † October 19, 1851), daughter Born by Johann Rudolf Forcart. In his second marriage, his father was married to Julie (born April 1, 1841 in Koblenz, † March 16, 1918 in Karlsruhe), daughter of the lawyer Bernhard Brand von Lindau . His stepsisters were:

His great-great-grandfather was Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden-Durlach , the younger brother of the Baden Grand Duke Karl Friedrich .

Wilhelm von Seldeneck was since 1872 with Emma Helene Anna (born January 23, 1851 in Strasbourg; † March 2, 1914), daughter of the Baden lawyer and politician Karl Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim (1813-1891); married; they had six children together:

  • Jenny von Seldeneck (born April 2, 1873 in Karlsruhe, † March 1, 1944 in Potsdam ), married to Karl von Borcke (1866–1945);
  • Elsa von Seldeneck (born February 14, 1875 in Karlsruhe; † December 11, 1941 in Bollschweil), married to Max von Holzing-Berstett (1867–1936), Prussian major general, whose daughter was the writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz ;
  • Wilhelm von Seldeneck (born May 29, 1876 in Karlsruhe, † August 30, 1876 there);
  • Hans Wilhelm von Seldeneck (born February 25, 1878 in Karlsruhe; † 1934 at Gut Höllhof in Reichenbach ), landowner, first married to Josephine Ellen Horstmann (born November 24, 1885 in Rotterdam ; † November 21, 1970 in The Hague ) and in second marriage with Claudia, geb. Luschka (born April 5, 1891 in Karlsruhe; † April 27, 1965 there);
  • Hertha von Seldeneck (born August 6, 1881 in Karlsruhe; † February 4, 1963 ibid), married to Louis Jay (born March 3, 1862 in Clifton; † March 14, 1933 in Orselina )
  • Rolf von Seldeneck (born December 3, 1890 in Karlsruhe, † January 24, 1917 in Courland ), died as a soldier in the First World War.

Life

His father died in 1863 and he received further education from relatives of his biological mother in Basel and in the Karlsruhe cadet corps . In 1869 he joined the Baden cavalry and was promoted to corporal and shortly thereafter to deputy sergeant in the following year . He took part as second lieutenant in the reserve in the 2nd Dragoon Regiment , later in the 1st Leibdragoner Regiment in the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

After the end of his military service, he took over the management of the Seldeneck brewery, which the family had run in Mühlburg since 1770 . Late 19th century, he acquired several courts, including the Höllhof in Gengenbach , which also rests on these courts burn rights went over to the new owner, in addition he promoted the beer delivery to Alsace-Lorraine and France , thereby contributing to a significant extent to at the beginning of the 20th century that Karlsruhe became the third largest beer producing city in Germany after Munich and Dortmund . By transforming the company into Mühlburger Brauerei AG in 1900 and through further technical innovations, he succeeded in securing the future of the company in the time of competition between the large Karlsruhe breweries; so he mainly expanded the production of brandy.

When, after the end of the First World War, the provisions of the Versailles Treaty resulted in a ban on exporting beer to France, this led to the economic decline of Mühlburger Brauerei AG , whereupon he sold the company to Sinner AG in 1920; he sat on their board of directors until his death .

The Tempel cultural center is located in the former Seldeneck brewery in Mühlburg .

He was both entrepreneurial and non-profit and donated Karlsruhe in 1909 to the Siegfriedbrunnen in Weststadt on the former family estate of his family.

At the time of his death he was the Grand Duke of Baden Chamberlain, Oberschlosshauptmann and Oberjägermeister .

Trivia

Baron von Seldeneck is still sold today as a beer brandy .

Memberships

  • He was a member of the Baden Association for the Promotion of the Rhine Canal . The aim of the association was to build a side canal on the right bank of the Upper Rhine . It did not come to fruition.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sinner AG. In: Annual Report 1920. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Cultural Center Tempel in Karlsruhe | Society. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche: Karlsruhe Rhine Port, 1901-2001 (= Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe [Ed.]: Publications of the Karlsruhe city archives . Band 22 ). INFO Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88190-270-0 , p. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Seldeneck, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seldeneck, Wilhelm Rudolf von; Seldeneck, Wilhelm R. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Muhlburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1925
Place of death Karlsruhe