Johannes Lorenz (politician)

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Johannes Lorenz (born October 13, 1901 in Tetschen , today Děčín , † March 13, 1980 in Kirchheim in Swabia ) was a German politician of the GB / BHE . He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1958 to 1962 .

After his father was transferred there on business in 1913, Lorenz spent his youth in Eger in the Sudetenland . There he attended the humanistic grammar school, which he left in 1919 with the Matura. He then studied law at the Charles University in Prague and graduated with an Absolutorium in 1924. As a result of his father's forced retirement due to Czechoslovakia , Lorenz moved to his mother's parents' house in Hainspach and was now working as a freelancer in the insurance industry. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a soldier in France , Russia and the Balkans . After his release from captivity, he moved to Kirchheim and initially worked as a road construction worker, later as an unskilled worker in a flax roaster and from 1952 as a clerk in the compensation office of the Mindelheim district .

In the state elections in 1958 , Lorenz was elected to the Bavarian state parliament through a mandate in the Schwaben constituency, to which he belonged for one electoral term. There he was a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture, and for the first two years he also sat on the Committee on Frontier Affairs.

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