Karl Bittel
| Karl Bittel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 June 1892 Darmstadt, Germany |
| Died | 18 April 1969 (aged 76) Berlin, East Germany |
| Alma mater |
Heidelberg Freiburg Tübingen |
| Occupation | |
| Political party | KPD |
| Spouse(s) | Hermine 1890-1968 |
| Children | Viktor Karl Hans-Peter |
| Parent(s) | Peter Bittel Clara Anna Koch/Bittel |
Karl Bittel (22 June 1892 – 18 April 1969) was a German left-wing Historian and Journalist.
Karl Bittel was born in Darmstadt. His father was a bank worker. He attended school at Freiburg in the south-west of Germany, across the Rhine from Mulhouse. He passed his school final exams in 1911. By that time he had already co-founded a Freiburg Wandervogel youth group, for which he produced a news-sheet. Then, between 1911 and 1915, he studied Economics (), Law and History at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Tübingen. It was while he was at Tübingen that he joined the , a (relatively) forward looking student fraternity. He received his doctorate from Tübingen in 1915 for a dissertation on the consumer-co-operative movement pioneer, Eduard Pfeiffer.
Bittel was a volunteer contributor to the "Freiburger Volksstimme", a local newspaper at the popular end of the political spectrum, and served between 1913 and 1916 as Secretary for Consumers Club in nearby Esslingen. At the same time he was publishing articles on the Co-Operative movement. In August 1914 war had broken out, and it ended in November 1918 with military defeat for Germany and her allies. During the revolutionary year that ensued in Germany Bittel was a member of the Council in Karlsruhe. In 1919 Bittel became a member of the newly established German Communist Party.
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