Wilhelm Karl (politician)

Wilhelm Adam Karl (born January 5, 1864 in Seckenheim , † July 20, 1938 in Teningen ) was a German Protestant pastor and politician .

Life

Wilhelm Karl was born in 1864 as the son of farmer Peter Karl (1836–1915) and his wife Barbara (née Fuhr, 1839–1917) and grew up with four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. He attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim from 1877 to 1882 , where he graduated from high school. He then studied Protestant theology from 1882 to 1886 at the universities of Heidelberg , Zurich , Berlin , and again in Heidelberg. Karl was then vicar from 1886 to 1890 . First in Schwetzingen until 1887, then in Baden-Baden until 1889 and then in Heidelberg. Afterwards he was pastor in Egringen from 1890 to 1893 , pastor in Sand bei Kehl from 1893 to 1898 and pastor in Sulzburg from 1898 to 1906 . From 1906 to 1909 he was head of the deaconess house in Freiburg. He then was pastor in Tauberbischofsheim from 1909 to 1920 . During this time he was a member of the general synods of the Evangelical Church of Baden from 1914 to 1920 . From 1920 to 1927 he was pastor in Bötzingen am Kaiserstuhl. In 1927 Karl became a councilor .

In addition to his pastoral work, Karl was also politically active. In 1909 he ran for the Free Conservatives in the Schwetzingen constituency and in 1913 for the Conservative Party in the Mannheim-Land constituency. From 1919 to 1921 he was finally a member of the DNVP in the Baden National Assembly and in the Baden Landtag for constituency IV (Mannheim).

Wilhelm Karl was married to Maria Mangold (1871–1958) from 1889. The marriage produced three daughters.

Web links

• Wilhelm Karl in the database of regional studies online (Baden-Württemberg)