August Kirchhoff

August Kirchhoff (born December 7, 1874 in Hohenhausen as August Ferdinand WilhelmKirchhoff ; † unknown) was a German district administrator in Cameroon.

Life

After graduating from high school in Lemgo in 1894, August Kirchhoff studied law in Marburg and Munich . After the first state examination in law at the Higher Regional Court of Celle , he became a trainee lawyer, passed his second state examination and in June 1902 was a court assessor in Lemgo. Shortly afterwards, he was referred to the Detmold district government for two months to help out and represent employees on leave. When he returned to the Lemgo District Court, he was given leave in March 1903 to take on a job in the colonial department of the Foreign Office . From January 1, 1906 he was a district judge here. Before Kirchhoff was entrusted with the administration of the Detmold Office at the beginning of 1919, he had worked as an imperial district administrator in Yaoundé , the capital of Cameroon , and was a judge-martial from 1914 to 1918. He returned to the Reich colonial administration for a short time, became a Privy Councilor and, on December 1, 1921, Senior Councilor in the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction . On April 1, 1922, he was head of the Bremen branch of the Reich Compensation Office for War Damage. After the dissolution of this office in the autumn of 1924, Kirchhoff tried in vain to be accepted into the administrative service in Lippe. The sources do not provide any information about his further life.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, p. 190, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• August Kirchhoff entry in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"