Johann Felix Schoch

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Johann Felix Schoch (* 1768 in Bäretswil ; † on August 17, 1817 in Rottenbuch ) was a Swiss farmer and entrepreneur . As already in 1798 at the Helvetic Revolution , he participated in 1804 in the Bock War , a popular uprising against the city of Zurich . He was the only leader sentenced to death to avoid execution. He escaped to Bavaria under the code name Rudolf Rutishauser . There he was first administrator, then tenant of monastery property , which the Swiss revolutionary family Meyer from Aarau had acquired. Four of his great-grandson commanded in World War Associations of the Bavarian army .

Life

From farmer's son to revolutionary

The farmer's son from Hinterburg (municipality of Bäretswil) peddled as an iron trader and founded a company with brothers and friends. He learned how the city of Zurich withheld their subjects from the country the freedom of trade and industry. In 1787 he married Susanna Spörri (1770–1822) von Sternenberg . On the occasion of the Stäfner trade of 1795, he joined the patriots who demanded political rights for the rural population. After the Helvetic Revolution, he was elected President of the Wald District Court (today the Hinwil District Court ). In 1802 he supported the government troops under General Andermatt when they besieged the counterrevolutionary city of Zurich. In 1803 he became a member of the Grand Council (today the Cantonal Council ) and president of his home municipality Bäretswil. In the buck war of 1804, after initial hesitation, he was in charge of arming the population in the Zurich Oberland .

Escaped the scaffold under a false name

Affoltern am Albis : Memorial to the executed leaders of the buck war.

Troops from other cantons put down the uprising. The fugitive Schoch was sentenced to death by beheading on May 18, 1804 by a Zurich court as a "rioter and state criminal". Although a reward was offered for his capture, he was able to hide in an underground room and in the hay for six months. A relative of Pestalozzi's found him the position of administrator on the Polling monastery in Bavaria, which belonged to the Meyer family, who had also emigrated from Aarau. This tried to introduce silk ribbon weaving in the so-called Pfaffenwinkel and - with more success - to renew cattle breeding and dairy farming. Schoch received a passport in his name from Rudolf Rutishauser from Löwenhaus in the canton of Thurgau . His true identity was known in Bavaria, but like other persecuted exponents of the Helvetic Republic , he remained unmolested. Soon he was able to lease the Rottenbuch and Steingaden monastery estates from the Meyer family for ten years . In 1805 he had his family follow. Johann Jakob Leuthy wrote: "The manner in which Schoch ran agriculture was conspicuous in Bavaria and the beautiful cattle that he brought to Munich were admired and the fat cheeses were valued." According to Leuthy, his economic success enabled him to to acquire part of the Rottenbuch estate.

The Steingaden military foal farm is established

In 1816 Johann Rudolf Meyer sold his son Rottenbuch and Steingaden to the Bavarian state. A military foal farm was established in Steingaden, to which a Sebenschwaige in Rottenbuch was affiliated. Schoch's eldest son, Johann Erhard (1788–1839), was the first manager of the Fohlenhof. Schoch retired to his property in Rottenbuch, where he died. After his wife's death in 1822, the children dropped the code name Rutishauser again. Johann Erhard Schoch kept Bäretswil's citizenship . The eldest son from his marriage to Maria Magdalena Spranger (1792–1831) from Zweibrücken , Karl Wilhelm (1821–1868), became a colonel in the Bavarian general staff . The youngest son Johann Konrad received the first prize at the Oktoberfest in 1846 for managing farms in Unkundenwald near Schöffau (today the municipality of Uffing am Staffelsee ).

Four brothers as Bavarian generals

Great-grandson of a revolutionary condemned to death: Lieutenant General Karl Ritter von Schoch.

Karl Wilhelm married Marie Heymann from Nuremberg . No fewer than four sons of the couple commanded units of the Bavarian Army during World War I: Gustav Ritter von Schoch (1858–1924) as infantry general, Albert Ritter von Schoch (1860–1943) also as infantry general, Emil Schoch (1862– 1916) as major general and Karl Ritter von Schoch (1863–1940) as lieutenant general. Karl and Albert had previously headed the Bavarian War Academy one after the other . Gustav published historical writings. After the First World War Karl became a member of the Reichstag and Bavarian state chairman of Gustav Stresemann's German People's Party , Albert during World War II Grand Chancellor of the Military Max Joseph Order . The former Schochkaserne in Landshut is named after Albert .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Also written as Rudishauser, Rudischhauser or similar.
  2. ↑ Leuthy (1838), pp. 169-171.
  3. ^ Probably Unter-Löwenhaus, Erlen community .
  4. ↑ Leuthy (1838), p. 242. In 1811 Schoch acquired the Meierhof of the former monastery.
personal data
SURNAME Schoch, Johann Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rutishauser, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss revolutionary and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Bäretswil
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1817
Place of death Rottenbuch