Max Kirchhoff

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Maximilian Joseph "Max" Kirchhoff (born December 4, 1831 in Langensalza , † after 1892) was a German local politician.

Life

Kirchhoff was the 4th child and the 2nd son of the royal tax council Friedrich Carl Gottlob Kirchhoff (1781-1861) and his wife Magdalena Ludovica Demontant (* 1799). Before the birth of his younger brother, Carl Reinhold Alfred Kirchhoff , who later became a geographer, the family moved to Erfurt in 1836 . Max Kirchhoff was listed there as mayor in the town's lists of houses in 1861. On May 13, 1862, he married Christine Dorothea Rothe, who came from Erfurt and was seven years his junior, and had two sons with her: the future engineer, Carl August Friedrich Louis Heinrich Theodor Alfred Kirchhoff (1864-1905) and Max Heinrich Theodor Kirchhoff, born in 1867 who was given in the Almanac of the Good Society of Germany from 1894 as the owner of a manor in Guhlen, Sorau district .

After more than 30 years of activity for the city of Erfurt as councilor and mayor , he was granted honorary citizenship in 1892 .

Individual evidence

  1. Botho, Crafft (ed.): Almanach of the good society of Germany . Volume IV-XII. Gronau-Verlag, Berlin 1894, p. 99 .
  2. Erfurt City Archives, Ancestry.com. Erfurt, Germany, House Lists, 1859–1872 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: House lists 1859–1872. Erfurt City Archives, Erfurt, Germany.