Carl Kirchhoff

Carl Johann Kirchhoff (born June 13, 1820 in Heiligenbeil ; † January 23, 1893 ) was a German judge .

Life

The son of the Königsberg district judge Kirchhoff attended the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium and studied law in Königsberg from 1839 . In 1842 he was sworn in to the sovereign. After his legal clerkship in Königsberg, he became a district judge in Mohrungen in 1850 . In 1856 he was transferred to Braunsberg . In 1860 he was promoted to the district judge in Fischhausen . In 1863 he was promoted to district court director in Labiau . From 1865 he was a tribunal advisor at the East Prussian tribunal in Königsberg. In 1873 he became President of the Disciplinary Chamber for Reich Officials. In 1873 he came to the Upper Tribunal in Berlin as advice . In 1878 he was also a member of the Royal Court of Justice for Church Affairs. In 1879 he came to the newly established Imperial Court . Initially he was employed in the II. Auxiliary Senate until he was employed in the II. Criminal Senate from 1881 . He retired in 1890.

family

The physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887) was his brother.

literature

• Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929, Berlin 1929, p. 352.
• Klaus Huebner: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff. The ordinary life of an extraordinary man. Ubstadt-Weiher 2010, p. 22, ISBN 978-3-89735-606-1 .