Karl Anders (real name Karl Kurt Wilhelm Anders-Naumann) (24 January 1907 – 27 February 1997) was a German political activist who was forced to emigrate during the Nazi period. After the war he became a print and broadcast journalist. During the 1950s he became a publisher. Between 1953 and 1957 Karl Anders worked as the director of the publishing business of the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper group. As a publisher he devoted much effort to promoting Anglo-American criminal fiction in Germany.