Johann Kaspar Schiller

Johann Kaspar Schiller (27 October 1723 – 7 September 1796) was an army officer and court gardener to the Dukes of Württemberg.

He was born in 1723 at Bittenfeld to mayor Johannes Schiller (1682–1733), whose ancestors were mainly vintners and craftsmen in Remstal, and his wife Eva Margarete Schatz (1690–1778).

Due to his interests, in 1775 he became the head of the ducal court gardens on the castle Solitude, which later, from 1858 to March 31, 1942, belonged to Gerlingen and since then to Stuttgart.

Many scattered fruit stands that still exist today, both in Gerlingen and in the other middle Neckar region, can be traced back to Schiller's activities.

On 22 September 1749 in Montag Schiller married Elisabetha Dorothea Kodweiß (1732–1802), daughter of the innkeeper and baker Georg Friedrich Kodweiß (1698–1771) and his wife Anna Maria Kodweiß, nee Munz (1698–1773), with whom he had six children, with whom he had six children, including his only son Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), of outstanding importance for German literature, and the well-known eldest daughter Elisabeth Christophine Friederike (1757–1847), which subsequently painter and was a wife of librarian and linguist Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Reinwald [de] (1737–1815).