Background
Barths was born in Kolbatz (now Kołbacz) near Stettin (now Szczecin).
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Karl-Ludwig Barths
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After completing secondary school he entered the German army, called Wehrmacht, in 1937. In World World War II he fought in nearly in all significant battle fields as in Poland, France, Greece, Russia and the Baltic. At the end of the war he was held in Soviet captivity.
This hard time he described in his book Jungmann.
Erlebte und erzählte Episoden 1939-1949, which has been published in 2007. After return from captivity he became an export/import apprentice in Hamburg.
In 1953 he started working for Volkswagen, where he became responsible for the company"s business in North America. In 1963 Barths moved to Toronto in Canada where he was president of Volkswagen Canada Limited.
There he also held the offices of a governor of the town"s Central Hospital and director of the Toronto Symphony.
In 1972 Barths moved to Wolfsburg in Germany where he was chairman of the Volkswagen Versicherungsdienst Gmbh until 1985. From 1972 to 2000 he was president of the Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft (German-Canadian Society). As of 2014 he lives in Taunus/Hesse, Germany.
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