Karl Bartos (born 31 May 1952 in
Berchtesgaden, Germany) is a German musician and composer. Between 1975 and 1990, he was, along with
Wolfgang Flür, an electronic percussionist in the
electronic-music band
Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on Kraftwerk's US "Autobahn" tour. In addition to his percussion playing, Bartos was credited with songwriting on the
Man-Machine,
Computer World, and
Electric Café albums and sang one lead vocal on the latter.