Herbert Prochazka

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Herbert Prochazka (born August 23, 1923 in Groß-Priesen (Velké Březno) , Czechoslovakia ; † March 11, 2007 in Bruckmühl ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , GDP , CSU ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school, the humanistic grammar school in Brno , the secondary school in Marienthal near Olomouc and the high school in Freudenthal , Prochazka completed commercial training in the hardware industry from 1939, which he completed in 1941 with the examination as an industrial clerk. He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After suffering a serious wound in the defensive battles near Stalingrad , he was dismissed in 1944 as a severely disabled person and then took over the management of a military training camp in Großwaltersdorf until the end of the war .

Prochazka was interned in the Hodolein camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and suffered severe abuse while in custody. After his release he moved to West Germany as an expellee and settled in Kirchdorf am Haunpold near Bruckmühl. In the post-war years he worked here as an employee in his father's general agency. From 1956 to 1958 he worked as a dispatch manager in a clothing factory in Rosenheim , worked as a bank director in Munich from 1963/64 and became managing director of the Society for Technology and Rationalization in the Municipal and Agricultural Sector (TKL-GmbH & Co. KG) in May 1965. based in Göggingen and Landsberg am Lech . He also worked as chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit building cooperative in Bruckmühl. In 1971 he became director of Heimhausbau-Füssinger-Hotelbau Pocking. He later took up a job as a clinic director.

In addition to his professional activity, Prochazka was involved in various organizations for displaced persons. Among other things, he was deputy district chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Oberbayern , district chairman of the Association of Expellees and a member of the Witikobund . He was also a member of the Presidium of the German-Slovak Society and a member of the VdK .

Political party

Prochazka joined the GB / BHE in the early 1950s , worked full-time for it from 1953 to 1956 and devoted himself primarily to socio-political issues. In 1961 he became a member of the GB / BHE successor party GDP and was elected chairman of the GDP district association Rosenheim and the GDP district association Bad Aibling. In addition, he was chairman of the GDP district of Upper Bavaria, deputy state chairman of GDP Bavaria and a member of the party's federal committee. At the end of the 1960s he moved to the CSU . Later he was chairman of the working group Germany-Ostpolitik of the CSU Lower Bavaria .

MP

Prochazka was a member of the Bad Aibling district council and was elected to the Bavarian state parliament in 1958 , to which he belonged until 1962. In 1960 he was appointed by Prime Minister Hans Ehard as co-chair of the main committee of deportees and refugees in Bavaria. From 1959 to 1962 he was a member of the Interparliamentary Working Group in Bonn .

Prochazka was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1969 and from September 18, 1972, when he replaced the retired member Valentin Dasch , until the end of the 1972 electoral term. As a member of the GDP, he was elected to parliament in 1965 through an electoral alliance with the CSU. He was then a guest of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He entered parliament in both electoral terms via the Bavarian state list.

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