Jan Haluza

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Monument to Haluza in his hometown of Újezd ​​u Brna

Jan Haluza (born July 14, 1914 in Šternov , † August 25, 2011 in Zlín ) was a Czechoslovak athletics coach. He led Emil Zátopek to the top of the world and was his only coach.

Haluza was the son of a craftsman and had seven siblings. He was an active athlete in his youth . After the end of his active sporting career, he received his doctorate in 1939 shortly before the German break-up and occupation of Czechoslovakia at the law faculty of Masaryk University in Brno , which was forcibly closed a few days later. Like many lawyers, Haluza initially found no employment in the National Socialist Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , worked briefly in Brno as a construction worker and then as a German teacher at the Archbishop's High School in Prague, until it was closed after Reinhard Heydrich's murder in 1942. As a coach at the Baťa Zlín athletic club , where he had previously started a remarkable sporting career as a runner, he built Emil Zátopek into a top runner before the end of the Second World War .

After the end of the war, Haluza initially became politically active in the Christian Czechoslovak People's Party ( Československá strana lidová ). After the February revolution of 1948, the Communist Party KSČ offered him membership, but Haluza refused. During interrogation, he was accused of membership in the group around the regime critic Milada Horáková and sentenced to six years of forced labor in the uranium mines of Jáchymov in a show trial .

From 1989 Haluza was committed to the revitalization of the traditional sports club Orel . Haluza was rehabilitated after the Velvet Revolution and in 2010 was awarded the Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order, 2nd class.

literature

  • Rick Broadbent: Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek. Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4729-2022-5 , pp. 27-30, 44 f., 100, 233 f., 284 f. (Preview).
  • Richard Askwith: Today We Die a Little: The Rise and Fall of Emil Zátopek, Olympic Legend. Yellow Jersey Press, London 2016, ISBN 978-0-224-10034-2 , pp. 29-36, 73, 112, 192, 218, 293, 352 (preview).

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Rick Broadbent: Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek. Bloomsbury, London 2016, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Haluza, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak athletics coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Šternov
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2011
Place of death Zlín