Franz Leonhard Roth

Franz Leonhard Roth (born November 3, 1706 in Heilbronn ; † March 15, 1769 there ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1766 to 1769 .

Life

Roth was the son of the Strasbourg flour dealer Franz Roth, who had come to Heilbronn towards the end of the 17th century. Franz attended grammar school in Heilbronn and enrolled at the University of Jena and on April 5, 1729 at the University of Strasbourg in the field of law . After completing his studies, he traveled for a long time before settling in Heilbronn, where he was appointed to the small, inner council ("von den burgern") in 1738. In 1754 he was tax master , from 1757 he was the city school. After Mayor Esaias Meyer resigned from office for reasons of age in 1765, Roth became the third mayor of Heilbronn. After a short three-year term of office, from which no significant events were recorded, he died after a long dropsy in March 1769 and was buried in the cemetery on Weinsberger Strasse .

He was married to Maria Sara Schmalz (1721–1762), a Mannheim merchant's daughter. The marriage had eleven children.

Roth was quickly forgotten after his death. In the Heilbronner Chronik by Karl Friedrich Jaeger (1828) his first name is wrongly reproduced, in the chronicle of Friedrich Dürr (1895) he does not appear at all.

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber: Mayor of Heilbronn in the 18th century (IX) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 6 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, June 11, 1966, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century . Tübingen 1980, p. 88 (admission thesis).