Jindřich Andrial
Jindřich Andrial (born July 2, 1888 in Chrudim , Bohemia , † October 11, 1959 in Vienna ) was a Czechoslovak diplomat.
Life
He was the son of the businessman Josef Andrial and his wife Marie Klausová. After attending the Humanistic High School in Žižkov , he studied law at the University of Prague . There he received his doctorate in 1912 for Dr. jur. and then passed the judge's examination for military judges in Vienna. In the same year Andrial joined the Austro-Hungarian k. and k. Army , in which he rose to the rank of officer and, among other things, rendered interpreting services for communication with foreign prisoners of war. At the beginning of 1919 he returned to Prague in the newly founded Czechoslovakia , where he initially worked for a short time in mechanical engineering before he entered the diplomatic service of young Czechoslovakia in June 1919 and was deployed in Belgrade in Yugoslavia . After a two-year hiatus from 1926 to 1928, during which he worked as head of the department of the national economic sections of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague, Anrial returned to Yugoslavia for a year in early 1929. Then he worked in the German Reich as Consul General for Czechoslovakia in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and carried the title of Ministerial Councilor . After the formation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , he moved to the Ministry of the Interior of the Protectorate in Prague in March 1939.
At the end of April 1945 he was imprisoned by Karl Hermann Frank , German Minister of State in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , with other political prisoners in the Jenerálka castle near Prague . On May 7, 1945 the prisoners were liberated by the Red Army .
After the end of the Second World War, Jindřich Andrial re-entered the diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia and in 1946 became envoy to Switzerland. In 1948 he left the diplomatic service and stayed as a dissident in Bern , where he helped Czechoslovak emigrants, among other things. He worked for the radio station Free Europe and supported refugees from Czechoslovakia in Vienna from 1957 until his death.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 23.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stanislav Kokoška: Prague in May 1945 . Göttingen 2009, pp. 107-109.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andrial, Jindrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chrudim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vienna |