Gottfried Höch (1800-1872) was chairman of the first Legal City Council of Ludwigshafen.
Heinrich Gottfried Höch | |
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| Chairman of the City Council of Ludwigshafen | |
| In office August 28, 1849 – 1853 | |
| Monarch | Maximilian II of Bavaria |
| Succeeded by | 1853–1862: Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger (1811-1872) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 1, 1800 Mannheim |
| Died | April 12, 1872 (aged 72) Munich |
| Resting place | 5 - 5 – 56 Alter Südfriedhof |
| Spouse | Henriette Wilhelmine Höch |
| Children | Heinrich Theodor Höch |
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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]
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