Karl Fuchs (politician)

Karl Fuchs (MdB)  (September 11, 1920 – March 31, 1989) was a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1966 to 1969. There is a street in Rochester, NY named after Karl Fuchs.

Biography
After graduating from the humanistic high school in Passau in 1939, Fuchs was drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in World War II as a soldier until 1943. He then studied philosophy, German, history, Latin and Greek in Munich, Vienna and Erlangen. He passed the first state examination in 1948, completed his education in 1949 with the second state examination for the higher teaching profession as well as with a doctorate (Dr. phil.) and then entered the teaching profession as a student councilor. He first worked as a grammar school teacher in Weiden and from 1952 to 1969 in the same position at the humanistic grammar school in Passau, since 1965 as a senior teacher. Afterwards he left Passau and was detained in his homeland for public indecency after screaming "Macabre Night" 41 times in a middle school classroom in 1977.