Adolf Klimek

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Adolf Klimek (born June 17, 1895 in Nemile , near Mährisch Schönberg , † March 22, 1990 in Rockville , USA ) was a Czechoslovak lawyer , politician and member of parliament .

Life

His father Hynek Klimek lived near Mährisch Schönberg in what was then Austria-Hungary and was an active, Catholic Christian Democrat . Adolf Klimek graduated from high school in Hohenstadt and then studied law at the Charles University in Prague . During the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and in 1919 took part in the Czechoslovak campaign against Hungary and Slovakia ( Hungarian-Romanian War ). In 1921 he received his doctorate in Czechoslovakia (ČSR) as a doctor of law ( Dr. iur. ) . He was first employed as a music teacher, then he took part in building up the school administration in Carpathian Ukraine . From 1929–1940 he was the head of the legal and budgetary department at the Ministry of Education in Prague.

After the founding of the Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party ( Křesťanská a democická unie - Československá strana lidová , KDU-ČSL) in 1919 , he became an active member, later a functionary and worked with Bohumil Stašek. He participated in the St. Wenceslas League and organized the St. Wenceslas Millennium Celebration in 1929 . On behalf of Cardinal Karel Kašpar , he became General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Catholic Action , an association of Catholic priests and lay people.

After the attack on Poland in September 1939, he joined the conspiratorial resistance organization Obrana národa , which was linked to the umbrella organization ÚVOD . In 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sentenced to the death penalty, which was changed to twelve years in prison. After the end of the war in the spring of 1945 he took part in the reconstruction of the People's Party (KDU-ČSL), became its general secretary and, like his brother Julius Klimek, a member of the Czechoslovak National Assembly (Národní shromáždění).

He was elected MP in the parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia in 1946 and was in this position from May 26, 1946 to May 29, 1948. He regularly published articles on cultural topics in the daily Lidová demokracie . On behalf of Jan Šrámek , he held confidential discussions on current political issues with the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Komunistická strana Československa , KSČ). After the February revolution in 1948 he resigned and (March 30, 1948) renounced the mandate of the MP. To avoid arrest, he left Czechoslovakia and continued his efforts to restore democracy from exile . He was a co-founder of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia (Rada svobodného Československa, RSČ) in London and was a member of the committee from 1949–1951, 1952–1954 and 1963–1967 . He later traveled to the United States and lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland .

His nephew was the modern Prague historian Antonín Klimek (1937–2005).

Fonts

Participation

  • Et al .: Příručka školské a osvětové správy , Státní nakladatelství, Praha 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poslanecká sněmovna Parlamentu Česke Republiky. Retrieved August 11, 2013 (Czech).
  2. ↑ Ancientfaces. Adolf Klimek 1895–1990. Retrieved August 11, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Klimek, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak lawyer, politician and MP
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Nemile near Mährisch Schönberg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1990
Place of death Rockville , USA