Frank Oberle Sr. PC (March 24, 1932 – September 12, 2024) was a Canadian businessman and politician.
[1] Born in Forchheim near Karlsruhe, Germany, Oberle moved with his family to German-occupied Poland in 1941.
Later, he fled the Red Army advance, surviving on grass and stolen eggs while walking 800 kilometres to his home village in the Black Forest.
A second memoir, A Chosen Path: From Moccasin Flats to Parliament Hill, was published in the same year.
[2] Oberle died on September 12, 2024, in Squamish, British Columbia, two weeks after his wife of Joan, at the age of 92.