Karl Wald (17 February 1916 in Frankfurt am Main - 26 July 2011 in Penzberg) was a German football referee .
In 2006, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported a claim by former football referee Karl Wald, from Frankfurt am Main, that he had first proposed the shoot-out in 1970 to the Bavarian FA.[1] Wald was married and had two daughters.