Mikuláš Doležal

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Mikuláš Doležal

Mikuláš Doležal (born December 6, 1889 in Vlásenice u Pelhřimova , † October 1, 1941 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak soldier, legionnaire and division general in the Czechoslovak Army . As a leading member of the Obrana národa resistance group , he was a figure in the Czechoslovak resistance from 1939 to 1945 against National Socialism .

Life

After attending the state secondary school in Telč (1905–1910), Mikuláš Doležal studied at the Technical University in Prague (1910–1913). After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was drafted and sent to a regiment of the Austro-Hungarian military police in the Carpathian Mountains, where he was taken prisoner by Russia on December 26, 1914. Until May 19, 1916, Doležal was interned in prison camps in Korotscha , Arsamas and Murom . In May 1916 he enlisted in the First Serbian Volunteer Division in Odessa , with which he fought in Dobruja , among other places . In January 1917 he joined the Czechoslovak Legions . There he served in the 8th Rifle Regiment and held the first command post, as well as in Krasnoyarsk from the beginning of 1919, where he was in charge of the telegraph station of the 3rd Czechoslovak Division.

After returning to Czechoslovakia, Doležal served from August 1919 in the Ministry of Defense ( Ministerstvo národní obrany ) as an adjutant to the Army Inspector General JS Machar . After courses at the Vysoká škola válečná ( War College ) in Prague (1920-1922) he served as a major in the General Staff at the State Military Command for Moravia in Brno , where he headed the staff from 1927. He then worked in the Ministry of Defense in Prague as the first deputy chairman of the general staff, from July 1933 as a general. From December 1933 he commanded the 9th Infantry Brigade in Budweis. From 1935 to 1938 he was head of the Prague War College. In 1938 Doležal headed the Czechoslovak military mission for Yugoslavia.

After the occupation of the country by the Wehrmacht and the proclamation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Mikuláš Doležal joined the resistance organization Obrana národa and soon became deputy to General Bedřich Homola , first in the regional headquarters for Greater Prague, and later, after several arrests, in the main command of the Obrana národa. However, on August 4, 1941, the Gestapo arrested him and subjected him to severe interrogation. Shortly after the arrival of the new Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich on September 27, 1941 in Prague, Doležal was executed on October 1, 1941 in the Prague- Ruzyně prison.

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  • Přehled popravených, umučených a padlých československých generálů , keyword divizní generál Mikuláš DOLEŽAL , biography, online at: codyprint.cz / ...

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Divizní generál Mikuláš Doležal . Biographical keyword in the encyclopedia "Encyklopedie dějin města Brna", online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz/
  2. ↑ Vysoká škola válečná v Praze , in: Eduard Stehlík: Srdce armády (Generální štáb 1919-2009) , publication of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic, AVIS, Prague 2009 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-80-7278-515-5 , P. 22f., Online at: mocr.army.cz / ...
personal data
SURNAME Doležal, Mikuláš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak soldier, legionnaire and division general in the Czechoslovak Army
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vlásenice u Pelhřimova
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1941
Place of death Prague