The chairman of the Bishops' Conference at the time, Karl Lehmann, spoke of a "considerable burden" for the ecumenism and suddenly put the blame on the EKD representatives without clarification.
While at Heidelberg, Brendel studied with the leading minds of his day: Franz Boll (1867-1924), Alfred von Domaszewski (1856-1927), Friedrich Karl von Duhn (1851-1930), Richard Carl Meister (1848-1912), and Eugen Täubler (1879-1953); the literary theorist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), the classical art historians Karl Lehmann and Friedrich Zimmer.
Karl Marx | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Karl G. Heider | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Karl Jenkins | Karl Stefanovic | Karl Bodmer | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Karl Malone | Karl Wolf | Karl Valentin | Karl Popper | Karl Malden | Karl Kesel | Karl Barth | Karl Richard Lepsius | Karl Philipp von Wrede | Karl Kautsky | Karl Johans gate | Karl-Heinz Kämmerling | Karl | Darren Lehmann | Karl Weierstrass | Karl Story |
The Faculty of Theology has a long list of renowned alumni, among them Desiderius Erasmus, Daniel Ciobotea, Josef Frings, Georg Gänswein, Romano Guardini, Karl Lehmann, Franz Anton Staudenmaier, Robert Zollitsch, and recently-elected Pope Francis.