Helmut Prassler

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Candidate poster for the 1965 federal election

Helmut Traugott Prassler (born August 12, 1923 in Gaggstatt , † March 30, 1987 in Langenbrand ) was a German graduate farmer and CDU politician .

Life and work

Prassler attended the Latin and Realschule in Hohenheim and the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart . He joined the Wehrmacht as a war volunteer in 1940 , then took part in the Second World War as an Air Force soldier and was most recently taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released at the end of 1945.

After his return from captivity, Prassler completed an agricultural training course in southern Württemberg , which he completed with the assistant test. He began studying agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and became a member of the Zirkel student association, which later took up the tradition of the Corps Germania Hohenheim . He completed his studies in 1950 with the examination to become a qualified farmer and in 1954 with a doctorate in Dr. agr. from. In 1958 he passed the state examination for the higher agricultural service. He then worked as an economic and specialist consultant for land consolidation at the agricultural offices in Horb am Neckar and Rottenburg am Neckar and as a clerk in the agriculture department of the regional council of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern . From 1962 he worked for the agricultural school in Dornstetten , from 1964 in the position of a government agricultural councilor . From 1975 to 1986 he was President of the State Institute for Environmental Protection in Baden-Württemberg . He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class on June 25, 1982.

Party and mandates

  • Prassler joined the CDU and the Junge Union in the 1950s and was district chairman of the JU Calw from 1961 to 1964 .
  • Prassler was a council member of the Langenbrand community .
  • Prassler was elected to the German Bundestag in 1965 and represented the Calw constituency there. On November 3, 1975, he resigned from the Bundestag.

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