Josef Ježek

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Josef Ježek

Josef Ježek (born August 2, 1884 in Senftenberg , Austria-Hungary , † May 10, 1969 in Prague ) was a Czech major general of the gendarmerie , politician and interior minister in the Alois Eliáš government in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

Life

His father was the director and founder of the Czech middle school in Senftenberg. Josef graduated from elementary school and attended high school without a degree. Instead he enrolled at the cadet school in Vienna and later came to Chernivtsi in the western Ukrainian Bukovina with the 22nd Infantry Regiment . In 1909 Ježek left the army as a lieutenant and joined the gendarmerie, where he was transferred to the headquarters of the provincial gendarmerie No. 13 in Chernivtsi. A year later he was appointed commander of the gendarmerie in Vyshnytsia and shortly thereafter appointed adjutant in Chernivtsi. In 1915 he came to Vienna and later to St. Pölten . From June 1917 he worked in the Ministry of Defense.

After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , he took over the command of the gendarmerie in Jindřichův Hradec in 1918 . In 1919 he was sent to Bratislava to help set up the Slovak gendarmerie.

After the proclamation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Alois Eliáš appointed him Minister of the Interior in his government on July 1, 1939. Ježek was removed from office in January 1942 because he refused to take an oath of allegiance and was retired on March 1, 1942.

After the war he was arrested and brought before the national court in 1947, but acquitted of the collaboration . In 1954 he was arrested again by the communist regime and this time sentenced to 25 years for espionage and treason. After an amnesty in 1960, Ježek was released.

Josef Ježek died in Prague at the age of 84 and was buried in the Olšany cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Major General Josef Ježek , report in Žamberské listy () No. 13 of July 31, 2009, online at: zamberk.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Čs. generálové souzení za kolaboraci s Němci , online at: fronta.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Ježek, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech major general of the gendarmerie, politician and interior minister in the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1969
Place of death Prague