Oldřich Černý (Velká rada)

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Oldřich Černý († 1956 ) was a Czech left-wing intellectual. He was convicted of an alleged Trotskyist in a staged political show trial in Czechoslovakia in 1954 and died in prison.

Life

During the Second World War, Oldřich Černý was involved in the resistance group Předvoj , which saw itself as a successor organization to group V boj and tied many left-wing students to itself; Předvoj soon belonged to the largest resistance groups in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . Černý was arrested and spent 2 years in Buchenwald concentration camp . His communist prisoners saved his life there and he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) in 1945 .

After the end of the war, Černý belonged to the group of left-wing anti-Stalinist intellectuals who met for discussions and called themselves "Velká rada" (Great Council) and looked for different ways of developing the economy that differed greatly from the ideas of the communists. Before the Second World War, some of them also took a critical stance on the Moscow trials against alleged Trotskyists in the Soviet Union. As a result, after the Communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia, they got into a list of Trotskyist elements that was kept in the Secretariat of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and later in the Commission for Party Control (KSK).

On December 21, 1953, the CPC Commission for Party Control decided to accuse the group of Trotskyism, and from that point on it used the term " Great Trotskyist Council ". Oldřich Černý was interrogated in the notorious prison in the Slovak Leopoldov prison , where he was supposed to testify in connection with the future president Antonín Zápotocký about his activities in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

process

A trial with the group took place from February 23 to February 25, 1954. Of the seven co-defendants, Oldřich Černý received the highest prison sentence of 20 years. In 1963 he was rehabilitated. He was denied necessary medical care in prison, resulting in his death.

Oldřich Černý was the father of the head of the Czech foreign intelligence service Oldřich Černý .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osobnost: In memoriam Oldřicha Černého , in: Neviditelný pes , Internet newspaper , April 9, 2012, online at: neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/osobnost ... , in Czech, accessed on May 17, 2012
  2. ↑ a b StB o sobě. Výpověď vyšetřovatele Bohumila Doubka , compiled by and with a German résumé by the historian Karel Kaplan, materials of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, published by Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů komunismu , ISBN 80-902885-9-6 , 2002, p. 144 (fn. 64), online at: policie.cz ... , in Czech with a German summary ( Karel Kaplan: Die StB about themselves - testimony of investigator Bohumil Doubek ) on page 432
  3. ↑ a b c Zakázaný document. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 (Prohibited document. Report of the Commission of the Central Committee of the KSČ on the political processes and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia 1949-68), Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970 (Czech edition; English Edition The Czechoslovak Political Trials 1950 - 1954, Stanford University Press, 1971, online at: books.google.com )
  4. ^ Report by fellow prisoner Artur London , in: Artur London, Ich confess , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1970, p. 82
  5. ↑ Oldrich Cerny (obituary for the son's death), The Telegraph, May 13, 2012, online at: www.telegraph.co.uk/news ... , accessed May 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Černý, Oldřich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech left-wing intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 1956