Carl Louis Nippert (October 11, 1852 – September 5, 1904) was a German-American engineer and politician, who served as the 26th lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1902.

[2] His father was from Cincinnati, Ohio, and was sent to Frankfurt to run a Methodist Episcopal Church seminary.

[3] Nippert studied engineering at the universities of Karlsruhe, Germany, and Zürich, Switzerland.

In 1876 he migrated to the United States to work on the construction of the world fair in Philadelphia.

A vacancy opened for the Hamilton County Probate Judge, and Governor Nash appointed Nippert to the seat on May 1, 1902.