Johann Kaspar von Seiller
Johann Kaspar von Seiller ( born October 20, 1802 in Marburg an der Drau / Southern Styria, today: Maribor / Slovenia, † February 10, 1888 in Vienna), judge, lawyer, was from 1848 to 1851 President of the Municipal Council of the City of Vienna, 1851 to 1861, the first freely elected mayor of Vienna.
He was charged with awarding the Order of Leopold on March 15, 1850 in Vienna in the Austrian equestrian. Ten years later he was elevated as mayor of Vienna on January 19, 1860 with a diploma of 6 April 1860 in the Austrian baron.
Life
Johann Kaspar von Seiller was born the son of Kaspar Seiller (1764-1856) and Antonia Noble v. Peritzhofen and Ehrenheimb ( 1777-1864 ). In 1823 he worked as an educator at Carl Leonhard Graf Harrach. He graduated in 1817 with three years in Graz, then in Vienna and in 1823 received his doctorate at the University of Vienna to the Doctor of Laws. He was subsequently in 1826 initially working as a judge in 1831 as a court and court lawyer and notary in Vienna. In the wake of the 1848 revolution, the conservative Liberal Seiller was elected to the Vienna City Council and was its president until 1849. The adopted on March 17, 1849 Provisional Municipal Code was confirmed the following year by Emperor Franz Joseph. and entered into force on 9 March 1850. On January 26, 1851 Seiller was then elected the mayor.
During his tenure, the marriage of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth in Bavaria, as well as a number of urban development of important measures fell, as the demolition of the Vienna city wall, planning and construction of the Ringstrasse, planning the 1st Vienna gas lighting, the regulation of the Danube and the Vienna's central cemetery. In 1860 the railway line Vienna -Salzburg- Munich was opened. 1865, the Ringstrasse was partially opened.
Special care was devoted to the medical and education system, and the expansion of street lighting and paving. Finance large scale projects was made possible through wise and frugal financial management, and in spite of reduction in revenue to avoid a debt increase.
Had he even under difficult conditions, the Mayor assumed office as were loud Municipal Archives / Fields estate assets of the city when he left 10 million guilders. His impeccable office leadership was also recognized by his opponents and the newspapers, because never tried Seiller from his office personally to capitalize and even renounced his annual salary of 10,000 guilders.
In the Red Room of the Vienna City Hall a portrait of the mayor Seiller by Friedrich von Amerling depends. The writer Adalbert Stifter mentioned a portrait cable coupler from the hand of the engraver Joseph Axmann, about its quality, he praised expressed in a letter of 29 January 1858. Various documents from the life rope coupler are obtained Museum or the Vienna City Library Vienna: eg correspondence cable coupler with Franz Liszt, Johann Nestroy and Others
Johann Kaspar Seiller was married to Maria, born Weigl (1802-1866) and father of six children:
- Josef Freiherr von Seiller, * 1833, courtyard u.Ger.Adv.
- Aloys of Seiller, (1833-1918) Diplomat, k.u.k. Privy Council, Envoy, bev. minister
- Anton Freiherr von Seiller, * 1835, Prok of kukpriv. Pottendorfer cotton spinning and twisting
- Maria Walpurga v. Schwaiger, 1836 *
- Viktor Freiherr von Seiller, (1838-1866), kukHauptmann
- Maximilian Freiherr von Seiller, * 1872, High Court Judge.
1861 Seiller leaned from his re-election and lived from then on withdrawn.
At the age of 85 years he died and was buried in the parish cemetery Penzing.