Jean Turckheim

Jean de Turckheim
2nd Mayor of Strasbourg
Mayor of Strasbourg
In office August 1792 – December 1793
Preceded by	Philippe Friedrich Dietrich
Succeeded by	Pierre Monet
Personal details
Born	1750 Strasbourg
Died	28 January 1824 Altorf
Occupation	banker, philosopher, politician

Jean Frederick Turckheim, son of Baron Jean de Turckheim, was a banker in Strasbourg. He was elected as a deputy of Strasbourg to the Estates-General in 1789. Initially supportive of the revolution, he became disenchanted with its goals after the violence of July and August 1790 and became convinced that the unrest was part of a broader plan to overthrow the king and establish a radical republic. After a short term as mayor of Strasbourg, he left France, and offered his services to the Duke of Hesse, whom he served for several years, in particular as envoy to Rome. He also wrote a history of the House of Hesse. He died in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1824.

His nephew, Jean Frederick Turckheim, was the eighth mayor of Strasbourg.