Karl Ludwig Schemann (16 October 1852 in Cologne – 13 February 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German translator and race theorist.
[1] Schemann translated An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races by Arthur de Gobineau into German between 1893 and 1902.
Together with Adolf Bartels, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Henry Thode and Hermann Hendrich, Schemann was one of the founders of the völkisch Werdandi-Bundes and was a member of the Bayreuth Circle.
In addition, he was involved with other race ideologists such as the anthropologist Otto Ammon and the writer Theodor Fritsch in the Pan-German League.
In 1937 he was made an honorary member of the National Socialist Institute for the History of New Germany and received the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft.