Prokop Drtina
Prokop Drtina (born April 13, 1900 in Prague ; † October 16, 1980 there ) was a Czech lawyer and politician, participant in the Czechoslovak resistance against the occupation of the country , and after the end of the war from 1946 to 1948 a minister.
Life
Prokop Drtina comes from the family of the university professor František Drtina , a close colleague of TG Masaryk . In his youth he was an avid member of the Boy Scouts. He studied law at Charles University in Prague and was involved in the student movement, from 1925 to 1928 he held the chairmanship of the students within the then Národní strana práce (National Workers' Party). 1926-1938 he was chairman of the cultural discussion club Klub Přítomnost . After his studies he worked until 1929 in a civil servant position in the financial procuratorate.
Political career
In 1928 Drtina became chairman of the Česká strana národně sociální ČSNS (Czech National Social Party), whose members were Masaryk and Beneš. In 1929 he was given a position in the presidential office, from 1936 he became the personal secretary of President Beneš, which he remained until Beneš 'resignation in 1938.
Then he took part in the building work of the Czechoslovak resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . He participated in the formation of the Parsifal group and, above all, Politické ústředí . On December 26, 1939 he emigrated abroad illegally and was Beneš's political advisor from 1940 to 1945, and was also a commentator on the BBC's foreign broadcasts in Czech under the pseudonym Pavel Svatý.
After the end of the war he was a member of the Czech National Social Party (ČSNS), of which he was a board member, a member of the National Assembly and from 1946 to 1948 Minister of Justice in the government of Zdeněk Fierlinger II . In 1947 he campaigned for the investigation of an attempted attack on three ministers (he himself was one of the target persons) in which the communist party should have been involved. In the February revolution of 1948 he was one of those democratic ministers who offered to resign. After the Communists came to power, he attempted suicide on February 28, 1948 by jumping from the balcony or window. He was arrested in March 1948 and sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason in 1953 . In 1960 Drtina was given amnesty and rehabilitated in 1969, but in 1971, during the period of so-called normalization , the rehabilitation was partially withdrawn. Drtina, who actively participated in the Prague Spring , supported Charter 77 in 1977 . He died in Prague in 1980.
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- Klára Černá, Činnost odbojové skupiny Parsifal se zaměřením na osobu Leopolda Chmely a zejména jeho poválečný osud , Univerzita Pardubice 2010, online at: dspace.upce.cz / ... (PDF; 2.2 MB), here in particular on p. 43 (personal résumé)
- Zrychlený čas. Osudy Prokopa Drtiny a Ferdinanda Peroutky , TV show of the Czech TV from 2008 on www.ceskatelevize.cz / ...
- Prokop Drtina , short biography on the server totalita.cz /www.totalita.cz
- Prokop Drtina , short biography of the server of the Government of the Czech Republic, on: www.vlada.cz / ...
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Prokop Drtina in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drtina, Procopius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pavel Svatý (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1980 |
| Place of death | Prague |