Gottfried Höch

Gottfried Höch was chairman of the first Legal City Council of Ludwigshafen.

Heinrich Gottfried Höch
Chairman of the City Council of Ludwigshafen
In office
August 28, 1849  1853
MonarchMaximilian II of Bavaria
Succeeded by1853–1862: Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger (1811-1872)
Personal details
Born(1800-01-01)January 1, 1800
Mannheim
DiedApril 12, 1872(1872-04-12) (aged 72)
Munich
Resting place5 - 5 – 56 Alter Südfriedhof
Spouse(s)Henriette Wilhelmine Höch
ChildrenHeinrich Theodor Höch
FatherGrand Ducal official

Hoech was the eldest son of a Grand Ducal official and had purposefully gained a respected position in the Baden administration as an expert on municipal finances.[1] In 1841 he was Baden court economist in Mannheim and acquired on the Mannheimer Rheinschanze a Land lot, where in 1846 he built a house.

On July 15, 1849 at the end of the Hecker uprising, during the Battle of Ludwigshafen democratic forces destroyed the warehouses by a cannonade. August 28, 1849 Höch became chairman of the Local Commission of Ludwigsburg, which reached that the damages of the cannonade of Ludwigshafen, were compensated by the Kingdom of Bavaria.[2]

References

  1. Willi Breunig, Kommunalpolitik und Wirtschaftsentfaltung in Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1843-1871, Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen, 1995 - 50 p., p. 18
  2. Willi Breunig, Kommunalpolitik und Wirtschaftsentfaltung in Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1843-1871, Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen, 1995 - 50 p., p. 17


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