Gottfried Höch

Gottfried Höch (1800-1872) 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 1849-07-15 at the end of the Hecker uprising, during the Battle of Ludwigshafen democratic forces destroyed the warehouses by a cannonade. 1849-08-28 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.