Christian Gottfried Lorsch

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Christian Gottfried Lorsch (11 September 1773 in Nuremberg – 19 February 1830 in Nuremberg)^[1] was the first civilian first mayor of Nuremberg after the city's incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria, serving from 1818 to 1821.

Lorsch was a doctor of law and practiced as an attorney there beginning in 1796. In 1801 he became a so-called Genannter, a member of the city's board of aldermen. Following a of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria that required the establishment of a local government with a city council, he was elected First Mayor on 26 September 1818. In 1821 he failed to win reelection, but became a member of the "College of Community Overseers" (Kollegium der Gemeindebevollmächtigten, comparable to today's city council).

With , he founded the city's first savings bank in 1821. A street in the Gleißhammer section of the city is named after him.

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