Josef Pokštefl

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Josef Pokštefl (born November 2, 1927 , † June 3, 2013 in Germany) was a Czech lawyer, historian, publicist and former opposition activist.

Political and professional life

Pokštefl studied law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague . He finished his studies in 1950, and in 1969 he completed his habilitation there in the field of international law and international relations. At first he stayed at the faculty and worked there as an assistant, later as a lecturer in the field of international law and politics. In the 1960s he also worked as a research assistant at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences .

In 1968 he took an active part in the events of the Prague Spring , after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops , he organized the extraordinary (and later annulled) congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , which took place on August 22, 1968 and condemned the intervention .

In 1969 Josef Pokštefl went into exile in the Federal Republic of Germany and lost his Czechoslovak citizenship. He lived in Cologne, worked as a research assistant (including at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies ) and later as a political commentator on the Czech-language broadcasts on Deutschlandfunk . He also worked in the Listy group as a member of the editorial board of the exile magazine Listy . After 1989 he also wrote articles for some Czech magazines.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Opravdu nelze odzbrojit? Státní nakladatelství politické literatury, Prague 1958.
  • Odzbrojení: utopia nebo realita. Státní nakladatelství politické literatury, Prague 1960.
  • Co vědět z mezinárodního práva. (with Čestmír Čepelka), Orbis, Prague 1964
  • Co je diplomacie. Svoboda, Prague 1966
  • The ideological coping with the Prague Spring in the ČSSR 1969–1976. Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies (reports from the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies 33/1978), Cologne 1978
  • Constitutional and governmental system of the ČSSR. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-486-50411-8 ( excerpts online at: www.isbnlib.com )
  • Social change in the ČSSR and its reflex on the political and constitutional system. J.-G.-Herder-Institut, Marburg / Lahn 1984, ISBN 3-87969-176-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the catalog of the Ústí nad Labem scientific library, online at: katalog.svkul.cz
  2. ↑ Dušan Havlíček, Listy v exilu, online at: www.listy.cz/archiv , Czech, accessed on February 13, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Pokštefl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech lawyer, historian, publicist and former opposition activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1927
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2013
Place of death Germany