Hermann Ospald

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Hermann Ospald (born January 20, 1921 in Braunseifen, today Ryžoviště ; † January 20, 1996 in Augsburg ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Ospald worked in the local silk industry after leaving school. In 1941 he was drafted into the Navy , from which he was released in 1945 as a senior mate . After the end of the Second World War he started as an administrative clerk at the city of Kiel , but in 1946 he moved to Bavaria to live with his parents, who had been expelled from Czechoslovakia . In his new home he worked as party and trade union secretary, he was also a member of the social democratic movement , as well as the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft , FC Haunstetten and the reservists' association . In 1948 he moved into the city council of Haunstetten . In the state election in 1950 he won the direct mandate in the district of Neu-Ulm-Stadt und -Land , Illertissen , today's district of Neu-Ulm . In the subsequent elections he was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament via the Schwaben constituency list, to which he belonged until 1970. On January 13, 1964, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

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