When Christoph Johann Heinrich Pingel was born on 17 July 1885, in Matersen, Schwaan, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, his father, Peter Heinrich Daniel Pingel, was 39 and his mother, Wilhelmina Sophia Freiderica Dorothea Stier, was 33. He married Elisabeth Friederike Wilhelmine Henriette Baade on 3 November 1908, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 June 1918, at the age of 32.