Hans Drachsler

Hans Ferdinand Drachsler (born March 10, 1916 in Plöß , † October 18, 1996 in Munich ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Life

Drachsler grew up in Czechoslovakia . After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Mies , Drachsler, who was a Roman Catholic , studied history , classical philology and newspaper studies in Prague , Munich and Würzburg . In 1936 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ferdinandea Prague . He then completed a traineeship in Munich. In the Second World War he was a soldier and received the Wound Badge and the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

After the war Drachsler initially worked as a political editor for the Isar-Post and as a correspondent for the German press agency . In 1952 he became the publishing director and editor-in-chief of the CSU party newspaper Bayernkurier .

In 1939 he joined the NSDAP as editor ( membership number 6,454,675). Drachsler had been a member of the CSU and the JU since 1945 . He was district chairman of the JU Niederbayern and deputy chairman of the CSU Niederbayern and was also a member of the CSU state committee.

Drachsler was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1965 . He has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Burglengenfeld constituency . From 1970 to 1978 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

In 1972 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I.-X. Legislative period: Former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. (PDF) Willi-Bredel -Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV, October 20, 2005, p. 2 , accessed on January 20, 2020 .