Johann Joseph Eichhoff
Johann Joseph Eichhoff (born May 18, 1762 in Bonn , † December 2, 1827 in Kessenich ) was a German businessman, economist and civil servant in French services.
family
Johann Joseph Eichhoff was a son of the cologne mouth cook August Eichhoff and his wife Maria, a former maid. His brother was the journalist Johann Peter Eichhoff . Eichhoff himself married the court singer Eva Grau (1755-1822) in 1782. With this he had three sons:
- Johann August Eichhoff (1785–1861),
- Franz Eichhoff (1787–1860),
- Peter Joseph Eichhoff (von Eichhoff since 1835) (1790–1866), President of the Austrian Court Chamber.
One granddaughter was Bertha Krupp b. Eichhoff (1831–1888), the wife of Alfred Krupp ; a great-grandson of the long-time mayor of Dortmund , Ernst Eichhoff .
Life
Like his father, he was initially a cook at the court of the Cologne electors in Bonn. Later he started his own business as a businessman. Eichhoff continued his education as an autodidact. Together with his brother Johann Peter he belonged to the Bonn Illuminati group of the Minervalkirche Stagira . He was named "Desiderius". Both brothers were friends of Ludwig van Beethoven .
Before Beethoven moved from Bonn to Vienna, Johann Joseph Eichhoff entered himself into Beethoven's family book on October 25, 1792 and signed: “To my dear Betthoven on a happy journey, from his friend Joh. Jos. Eichhoff ".
After the French occupation of Cologne's electoral state, Eichhoff held the post of national agent in the regional administration. This involved numerous business trips to Paris . Since 1799 he belonged to the Bonn municipal government, the municipality . In 1801 he became mayor ( Maire ) of Bonn.
In a memorandum from 1801 Eichhoff dealt with the economic structures and economic development opportunities in the four departments on the left bank of the Rhine . In the same year he became sub-prefect of the arrondissement of Bonn . After Napoléon Bonaparte's visit to Bonn, he was released in 1804.
In Cologne he worked for the Rheinschifffahrtsoktroi. In 1811 he was promoted to general director of the authority. Eichhoff was called in to the Congress of Vienna in 1814 as an expert on navigation on the Rhine and used the opportunity to visit Beethoven on March 27, 1815 . He convinced Beethoven to have a portrait made of himself for the Bonn Reading Society .
Without success he campaigned for a uniform regulation and free navigation.
In the last years of his life, Eichhoff lived as a promoter of the economy and as a patron on his estate in Kessenich .
Fonts (selection)
- Mémoire sur les quatre départemens réunis de la rive gauche du Rhin, sur le commerce et les douanes de ce fleuve , Paris: Testu 1802
- Analytical draft of a collection of treatises and essays on shipping, police and action on the Rhine , Mainz 1812
- Topographical-statistical representation of the Rhine: with excellent consideration of its navigation and actions, the previous state of its police constitution, its possible improvement and extension to the other large rivers, with which it is partly already connected, partly could still be used. Cologne : M. DuMont Schauberg , 1814 (online on Google Books )
- Projet du réglement définitif concernant la navigation du Rhin, son administration, sa police, et les droits à y percevoir, précédé du rapport général développant les principes et les motifs qui ont servi de base à ce travail, présenté à la commission centrale , Mainz: Zabern 1817
- Explanatory remarks on the 147th meeting of Gr. Bath. Authorized representative at d. Centr.-Comm. d. Rhine shipping matters salary. Presidential speech , Bonn: Kupferberg 1819
literature
- Max Braubach: Eichhoff, Johann Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 375 ( digitized version ).
- Max Braubach , On the people and life in Bonn at the time of the young Beethoven and Babette Koch-Belderbusch , in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter , Volume 23 (1969), pp. 51–121, here pp. 54–57
- Klaus Martin Kopitz , The Beethoven Portrait by Ferdinand Schimon . A portrait created for the Bonn Reading Society in 1815 ? , in: Contributions to Beethoven's biography and creative process. Rainer Cadenbach in memory , ed. by Jürgen May, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus 2011, pp. 73-88, ISBN 978-388188-124-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maynard Solomon : Beethoven, Freemasonry, and the Diary of 1812-1818. In: Beethoven Forum , Vol. 8 (2000), pp. 101–146, here p. 105.
- ↑ Max Braubach , The family books of Beethoven and the Babette Koch , 2nd edition, Bonn 1995, pp. 15-17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichhoff, Johann Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor (Bonn), civil servant in the French service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1827 |
| Place of death | Kessenich |