Anton Prandl

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Anton Prandl (born September 8, 1892 in Bad Aibling , † October 25, 1976 in Penzberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was mayor of Penzberg and member of the Bavarian state parliament.

Life

Prandl attended elementary , civil and commercial school in Salzburg and completed a commercial training in Bad Reichenhall . He then worked at home and abroad until he was drafted into the First World War in 1914. In 1916 he was wounded and was then commercial manager of a copper mine in Bulgaria . After the end of the war he worked as a buyer for a copper mine in Austria and from mid-1919 as an independent businessman in Freilassing . After the seizure of power in 1933 he was briefly in protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp and was expelled from Freilassing. Prandl went to Unterhausen , where he leased a restaurant until he moved to the Schönmühl inn in Penzberg in 1937 . In the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the end of 1943 , but released again after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . Thereupon he was conscripted for the hospital administration in Augsburg .

Political career

Anton Prandl joined the SPD in 1910 . After 1919 he was a councilor for the SPD in Freilassing.

On January 27, 1946, the citizens of Penzberg elected him first mayor; its two predecessors since the collapse of the Third Reich were still used by the American occupation. His greatest challenge was the closure of the mine in Penzberg and the subsequent structural change in the city. In 1972 he retired.

Prandl was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from December 11, 1950 to November 12, 1958 (2nd and 3rd electoral terms).

Honors

The Bürgermeister-Prandl-Grundschule and the Bürgermeister-Prandl-Mittelschule in Penzberg have been named after Anton Prandl since 1977 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Heydenreuter: History with a future. 100 years of the city of Penzberg in Upper Bavaria . Volk, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86222-313-8 , pp. 162 .
  2. ^ Anton Prandl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
personal data
SURNAME Prandl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), mayor and MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aibling
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1976
Place of death Penzberg