在Laravel 4播种机中找不到类用户

In my Laravel 4 app, I would like to use the User object in my Seeder class.

My seeder looks as follows:

use App\Models;

class UserSeeder extends Seeder {

    public function run()
    {

        $name = "Name";
        try 
        {   
            $user1 = new User;
            $user1->name        = $name;
            $user1->save();
            $this->command->info("Seeded user: $name.");
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->command->error("Error seeding user $name: ".$e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

No matter how I rewrite the use statement, I keep getting the error:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'User' not found

I've tried:

• Use App\Models\User;
• Use \App\Models\User;
• Use Models\User;
• Use \Models\User;
• Use App\Models;
• Use \App\Models;
• Use Models;

• Use \Models;

• new \User;

• new Models\User;
• new \Models\User;
• new App\Models\User;
• new \App\Models\User;

Anyone any idea why the User class is not available in my Seeder? The DB object is, but I need to do something with complex relations, therefor I would like to use the User class.