Gottfried Höch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gottfried Höch

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1800

Place of Birth: Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1872

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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