In 1922, Sprenger became a member of the Nazi Party. Discharged from the service in July 1919, he resumed his career as a postal official in Frankfurt in December. After the war ended, he returned to Germany in December 1918. He subsequently served as a deputy company commander and a poison gas defense officer ( gasschutzoffizier) in Pinsk and Rivne in the Ukraine. Promoted to Leutnant in April 1916, he was deployed to the eastern front in June 1916 with the 1st Royal Bavarian Landsturm Regiment. After discharge from the hospital in January 1915, he was assigned as a zugführer (platoon leader) with a machine gun company. He was decorated for valor and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. He was then deployed to the western front and was wounded in action in November 1914, losing a toe on his right foot. He was assigned to his old regiment as an Offizierstellvertreter (Officer Deputy) training volunteers and reservists. Sprenger volunteered for service in the First World War in August 1914. From 1902 he was employed in the administrative service of the Imperial Postal Service, first in Mannheim, then in Hamburg and from October 1912 in Frankfurt. He attended volksschule there and after graduating from the gymnasium in Bad Bergzabern in 1901, he served as a one-year volunteer with the 18th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment “Prince Ludwig Ferdinand,” headquartered in Landau. Sprenger, the son of a farmer, was born in Oberhausen in the Rhenish Palatinate. 3 Involvement in euthanasia and the holocaust.National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) Minister-President of the People's State of Hesse Reichsstatthalter of the People's State of Hesse
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