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Adolf Tachezy
Birthdate: February 20, 1814
Date of death: March 25, 1892
He was the pharmacist and significant mayor of Cheb in 1873 to 1882.
He was born in 1814 in Cheb in the pharmaceutical family. He studied pharmacy at Prague “Charles-Ferdinand University” after graduating from high school in Cheb. He has taken over the family pharmacy “U Černého orla” (At the Black Eagle) in the square in Cheb after his father (today’s house No. 10) in 1839.
He became an officer of the “Imperial-Royal Cheb Rifle Association” in 1841, a centurion in 1843, and in 1868 a major of the same association.
He was a member of the town council and city councillor since 1848. In the same year he was a member of the town’s deputation which handed a petition to minister Pillersdorf. It was calling for the independence of Cheb. He held many public offices – he was subsequently a member of the district school board, sat on the board of the Cheb Chamber of Commerce and Trade, among other things, he was also a member of the Provincial Assembly and Chairman of the Cheb Savings Bank and a member of many scientific societies and human societies. Above all, however, he was working from 1873-1882 as mayor of Cheb. It is confirmed by the former district gazette “Egerer Zeitung” that he didn’t idle in his position, in which we find many of his decrees, regulations, prohibitions, which greatly influenced the life and character of the town in these years. He participated in the municipal administration in Franzensbad where he decided in the spa matters. Adolf Tachezy actively participated in federal and community life in Cheb … Two important building were given to the town for the use during his tenure. It was the building of the Municipal Theatre and the building of the Rudolphinum.
Tachezy was an owner of the Knights Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph. He died in 1892 and his tomb is still to be found in the Cheb cemetery.
(Vaňková, A.: Chebský starosta a lékárník Leopold Adolf Tachezy (Leopold Adolf Tachezy, Cheb mayor and pharmacist), in. Sborník Chebského muzea 1993 (Proceedings of the Cheb Museum 1993), Cheb 1993)
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