Johann Friedrich Eich (politician)

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Johann Friedrich Eich (born February 6, 1812 in Worms ; † August 25, 1879 there ) was a councilor, theologian, teacher, member of the II. Hessian Chamber of Deputies and an honorary citizen of the city of Worms.

Life

His father was a surgeon from Kirchberg; his mother came from Worms. After attending secondary school in Worms , he passed the Matura exam in Mainz . From 1830 on he studied Protestant theology at the Hessian Ludwig University . He became a member of the Old Giessener Burschenschaft Germania (1830), the Corps Starkenburgia (1832), the Corps Palatia Giessen (1833) and the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg (1833). In 1843 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

Act

Eich was between November 30, 1844 and December 1, 1866, at the request of the municipal council, a teacher at the Worms grammar school. Between the years 1848 and 1849 he was chairman of the Worms Citizens' Association. At a meeting of the association in 1849, he expressed his regret that Austria unfortunately had to be separated from Germany. As chairman of the citizens' association, he was an opponent of the liberal Ferdinand von der Loehr, who was particularly pleased that Eich got into a dispute with Johann Andreas Kranzbühler, the publisher of the Wormser Zeitung, which is considered liberal .

From 1848 he wrote the main leading articles in the Wormser Zeitung and from 1851 to 1856 he represented the city of Worms in Chamber II of the Grand Ducal Hessian Parliament in Darmstadt.

Ship bridge near Worms (photo 1890).

In Worms, he was particularly involved in the following areas:

  • Construction of the Worms ship bridge over the Rhine
  • Expansion of the Worms railway connection (including the construction of the Riedbahn and the further expansion of Worms as a railway junction)
  • Construction of the Luther memorial

After the inauguration of the Luther memorial on June 25, 1868, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Worms.

The United casino and Musical Society Worms was Eich 1860-1862 before as president.

From 1851 to 1856 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates. He was elected for the constituency Rheinhessen 8 / Worms . He was a city councilor and honorary citizen in Worms.

death

Eich died on August 25, 1879 in Worms. His honor grave was reburied in 1958 from the Rheingewannfriedhof to the Hochheimer Höhe cemetery.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 239-240.
  • Fritz Reuter : Johann Friedrich Eich. In: Working group of the archives in the Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck (ed.): The Rhine-Neckar area and the revolution of 1848/49 , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-64-9 , p. 123 f.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 93.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 115.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 258.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dr. Joh. Friedrich Eich> City of Worms. In: worms.de. Retrieved October 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Burkard Keilmann (Ed.): 475 years of Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms. Festschrift for the school anniversary (= Humanitas. 47, ZDB -ID 548409-1 ). Self-published by Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms, Worms 2002, p. 116.
  3. ^ Fritz Reuter : Worms between imperial city and industrial city. 1800-1882. Observations and materials (= Der Wormsgau. Supplement. 32, ISSN  0342-426X ). Verlag Stadtarchiv Worms, Worms 1993, p. 425 and 428.
  4. ↑ Manfred HW Köhler: As much as I love democracy, I am fed up with democrats. Letters from Ferdinand von Loehr, who was forty-eight in Worms, from Switzerland and France from July to October 1849. With sketches of his life and political views (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 126). Hessische Historische Kommission et al., Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-88443-078-5 , pp. 149 and 240.
personal data
SURNAME Eich, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Teachers and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1879
Place of death Worms , Germany