Career in state politics Pronold joined the SPD as a student in 1989. In 1993, he was elected the then youngest member of the regional executive committee of the SPD in Bavaria. From 1996 to March 2010, Pronold was a member of the City Council of Deggendorf and from 1996 to 2002, as well as since 2005 to the district council of the district Deggendorf. From 1999 to 2004, Pronold served as chairman of the
Jusos in Bavaria and, in this capacity, was a member of the presidium of the Bavarian SPD. In 2003, he initiated the first membership referendum in the history of the SPD when he rallied against
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's
Agenda 2010, together with other party members, in order to work towards a change of the party's political direction; he did not succeed. Since 2004, Pronold has been chairman of the SPD subdistrict
Rottal-Inn. From 2004 to 2009 he was Deputy Chairman of the SPD National Association of Bavaria. Since 2007, Pronold has been a member of the party executive committee of the SPD, since 2009 also of the presidium. In the six-person
shadow cabinet of the SPD Bayern for the
2008 state elections, Pronold represented the area "economy and finances". The SPD reached 18.6% in 2008, the worst result in the Bavarian state elections of the post-war period. On 11 July 2009, the party convention of the Bavarian State Association of the SPD elected him with 89.7% of the delegate votes as successor of
Ludwig Stiegler to the state chairman. In 2011 and 2013 Pronold was confirmed to this office. In May 2013, SPD candidate for chancellor
Peer Steinbrück brought Florian Pronold into his competence team for the
2013 federal election. Pronold was to be responsible for transport and infrastructure. In 2013, the SPD won the second-worst election result of its party history on one hand, but improved in comparison to 2009. Together with
Doris Ahnen,
Niels Annen,
Martin Dulig and Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller, Pronold co-chaired the SPD’s national convention in Berlin in 2014. In June 2015, in the election to the Bavarian state chairman of the SPD, there was a counter-candidature by the 71-year-old pensioner
Walter Adam from Lower Bavaria, who criticized Pronold violently and was supported in his candidacy by the director
Konstantin Ferstl. Pronold received only 63.3% of the vote, the opponent Adam surprisingly 31.7%.
Christian Ude stated, Pronold has been "disassembled in a staggering manner." Weekly magazine
Focus had already called Pronold's election result in 2013 of 80.6% a "damper". is a successor of Pronold as the Bavaria's leader of the SPD, Kohnen was elected on 20 May 2017. ==Life after politics==