Career
Lorsch was a doctor of law and practiced as an attorney there beginning in 1796. Following a Gemeindeedikt 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 September 26, 1818. With Johannes Scharrer, he founded the city"s first savings bank in 1821.
A street in the Gleißhammer section of the city is named for him.