Karl Apfelbacher was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who served as minister for higher public education in Upper Bavaria-East. He was a student of

Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in Atomic physics, atomic and Quantum mechanics, quantum physics, and also educated and ...

and

Heinrich Tietze Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (August 31, 1880 – February 17, 1964) was an Austrian mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transforma ...

at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

, where he received his doctorate in 1939. He went into teaching mathematics and science, as well as administration, in secondary schools. In 1964, he was cited as being Oberstudiendirektor at the Oberrealschule in

Burghausen, Altötting Burghausen is the largest Town#Germany, town in the Altötting (district), Altötting district of Upper Bavaria in Germany. It is situated on the Salzach river, near the border with Austria. Burghausen Castle rests along a ridgeline, and is the l ...

. On October 16, 1964, the school was taken over by the Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus.Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus: the Bavarian section of the Kultusministerium, the Ministry for Education and Culture. The sections in each German state have different names and functions apart from the administration of the school sphere. The term "Kultus" stands for church affairs, which was historically seen as the core task of a Ministry for Education and Culture, so the literal translation is the "Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Church Affairs." See
Kultusministerium
- Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus.

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20th-century German mathematicians Year of birth missing Possibly living people Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni {{germany-scientist-stub