Claim: Carl Masch worked as a schoolteacher, served as a pastor and published many books.
Evidence: He worked as a schoolteacher and rector in the town of Schönberg. For forty years, up until his death in 1878, he served as a pastor in Demern. In the field of heraldry he published "Wappen-almanach der souveränen Regenten Europa's" (1842). Geschichte des Bisthums Ratzeburg, F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck (1835) – History of the Bishopric of Ratzeburg.