Horch worked for Karl Benz from 1896, before founding A. Horch & Co. in November 1899, in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

The first commercially successful automobile, created by Karl Benz, added to the interest in light and powerful engines.

In 1896, Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first engine with horizontally opposed pistons.

* 1885: Karl Benz invents Benz Patent Motorwagen worlds first automobile.

* 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

* 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

* 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

* 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1929 )

** Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer ( b. 1844 )

* May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.

* August 5 – Berta Benz arrives in Pforzheim, having driven from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first " long-distance " drive in the history of the automobile.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

The notation was introduced by Karl Weierstrass in 1841.

This was, in fact, Swiss Reformed theologian, Karl Barth's, understanding of the doctrine of election.

* One of the impieties of Tantalus, according to Pindar, was that he offered to his guests the ambrosia of the Deathless Ones, a theft akin to that of Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi noted ( in Heroes of the Greeks ).

Karl Beloch has suggested that there was no Dorian invasion, but rather that the Peloponnesian Dorians were the Achaeans.

The criterion was first proposed by philosopher of science Karl Popper.

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

During the first years of the reign of his older brother as Elector, Anton was the third in line, preceded only by his older brother Karl.

The death of Karl ( 8 September 1781 ) make him the next in line to the Electorate as Crown Prince ( de: Kronprinz ); this was because all the pregnancies of the Electress Amalie, except for one daughter, ended in a stillbirth.

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

The event was also commemorated in a propaganda medal designed by the German engraver Karl Goetz.

The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures, and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey, who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

At the very least, Marxism had now been born, and " historical materialism " had become a distinct philosophical doctrine, subsequently elaborated and systematised by intellectuals like Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov and Nikolai Bukharin.

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 at 664 Brückergasse in Trier, a town located in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine.

Karl was born in 1818 and baptized in 1824, but his mother, Henriette, did not convert until 1825, when Karl was seven.

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

Radek was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary ( now Lviv in Ukraine ), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Jewish family, his father, Bernhard, worked in the post office and died whilst Karl was young.

Lyonel Feininger was born to German-American violinist and composer Karl Feininger and American singer Elizabeth Feininger.

He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia ( then part of Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic ).

* Karl Shell ( born 1938 ), American economist

* Ferenc Toldy ( born Franz Karl Joseph Schedel )

Karl Marx was born in the city in 1818.

His parents were both teachers and activists in a rural area of ANC strength, and Mbeki describes himself as " born into the struggle "; a portrait of Karl Marx sat on the family mantelpiece, and a portrait of Mohandas Gandhi was on the wall.

* April 26 – Karl Möbius, German ecologist ( born 1825 )

He was born Jean Bernadotte, distinguished from a namesake brother by the addition of Baptiste and had the full name of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte by the time Karl also was added upon his Swedish adoption in 1810.

* Vilhelmina of Denmark ( born 18 January 1808 ), daughter of Frederick VI of Denmark and Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel ( ultimately she married firstly Frederick VII of Denmark and secondly Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg )

Prinze was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel at St. Clair's Hospital in New York City, son of Edward Karl Pruetzel and his wife Maria Graniela Pruetzel.

Carl Jung was born Karl Gustav II Jung in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, on 26 July 1875, as the fourth but only surviving child of Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk.

Karl Brandt married Anni Rehborn ( born 1904 ), a champion swimmer, on March 17, 1934.

They had one son, Karl Adolf Brandt ( born October 4, 1935 ).

* Karl Yoneda was born in Glendale, California, on July 15, 1906, but his family moved back to Japan in 1913.

* Karl Koch ( Weezer ) ( born 1969 ), musician in the band Weezer