World War II Karl Holz (27 December 1895 – 20 April 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician.

After the war ended, he returned in September 1919 and took a job as an official in Nuremberg, but eventually was discharged due to his political activities.

In 1929, the Gauleiter office in Upper Franconia, went to the Bayreuth Kreisleiter Hans Schemm, despite Streicher's support for Holz.

However, on 20 April 1940, in connection with the Streicher irregularities involving the Aryanization of Jewish assets, Holz was temporarily stripped of all his offices.

It has been alleged that Holz shot Liebel in the Palmenhofbunker owing to the latter's efforts to surrender the city to put a stop to the fighting, and because of the longstanding rivalry between the two men over control of the local Nuremberg Nazi Party.

However, Oberst Richard Wolf [de], a senior Wehrmacht commander present in the police bunker, stated that Liebel died by a self-inflicted gunshot.

[9] Holz met his own end in the same place on 20 April – coincidentally Hitler's 56th birthday – but whether it was suicide or an injury sustained in the battle is unknown.