| Heinrich Gottfried Höch | |
| Term End: | 1853 |
| Successor: | 1853–1862: Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger (1811-1872) |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1800 |
| Birth Place: | Mannheim |
| Death Place: | Munich |
| Resting Place: | 5 - 5 – 56 Alter Südfriedhof |
| Spouse: | Henriette Wilhelmine Höch |
| Children: | Heinrich Theodor Höch |
| Father: | Grand Ducal official |
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.[1] In 1841 he was Baden court economist in Mannheim and acquired on the a Land lot, where in 1846 he built a house.
On at the end of the Hecker uprising, during the Battle of Ludwigshafen democratic forces destroyed the warehouses by a cannonade. 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]