Bernard-Frederic de Turckheim

Since 1778, happy husband of beautiful the Lili Schoenemann, Bernard-Frederic de Turckheim is elected mayor of Strasbourg on December 6th, 1793 and occupies this function until January 18th, 1793, date of his dismissal by the representatives Pierre-Jean Couturier, Georges-Frederic Dentzel and Philippe Rühl. Fearing to undergo the same fate as its predecessor Frederic DE DIETRICH, it decides to be withdrawn with its family in her property of Postroff in Lorraine but, learning that it was the object of a mandate to bring, it takes refuge initially with Saarbrucken then with Heidelberg and finally with Erlangen where, disguised as a country-woman, Lili comes to join it with his/her four children.

At the end of the Terror, Bernard-Frederic de Turckheim returns to Alsace then, with the agreement of Napoleon, it is named Minister for Finance of the Large-Duke of Bade close to Alsace. Returned to France after 1814, it chairs the General advice and the electoral College of Strasbourg. From 1826, it chairs the general Consistory of the Confession of Augsburg. He dies on July 1st, 1831 and was buried near his wife in the vault of his field with Krautergersheim.