Vladimír Štěrba

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Vladimír Štěrba (born November 6, 1897 in Přestavlky u Chrudimi , † March 27, 1940 in Brno ) was a Czechoslovak soldier, legionnaire , colonel and brigadier general in memoriam in Czechoslovakia and, as a leading member of the Obrana národa resistance group, a figure in the Czechoslovak resistance in 1939 –1945 against National Socialism .

Life

After Vladimír Štěrba graduated from high school in Olomouc in 1915, he enlisted in the Austrian army, where he completed an officer course in Rijeka and was assigned to the Eastern Front as an officer . On November 26, 1916 he deserted, was arrested and interned in what was then Darnyzja for a few months. He volunteered for the Czechoslovak Legions , where he was accepted on June 12, 1917. As the commander of a rifle regiment, he took part in the fighting along the Trans-Siberian Railway and returned from Vladivostok to Czechoslovakia via Canada in the spring of 1920 . There he joined the Czechoslovak Army , commanded several departments and was promoted to the rank of major in 1933. At the end of the 1930s he worked in Uherské Hradiště , where he commanded an infantry battalion and at the same time led the officers' school of the 14th Infantry Division. In 1938 Štěrba stayed briefly in the Soviet Union as an envoy of the Czechoslovak military mission. At the time of the occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Štěrba served in Uherské Hradiště as a lieutenant colonel.

resistance

After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Vladimír Štěrba became involved in the Obrana národa resistance group , which was largely made up of members of the disbanded army. In the Moravian regional section of the resistance group, which was headed by General Bohuslav Všetička , he was with the command of the district group in Uherské Hradiště for the South-East Moravia region. Štěrba was arrested on November 30, 1939 and interned in the casemates of the Gestapo prison in the Špilberk fortress , where the Gestapo attempted brutal interrogations to find out the names of other resistance fighters. To make sure he didn't reveal the names, Štěrba asked for a piece of paper and a pen so he could write them down. The next day, March 27, 1940, he was found hanged in his cell.

Vladimír Štěrba and his wife Marie Štěrbová had a son of the same name, Vladimír Štěrba (* 1923; † 1998), who also served in the army and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Honors

War grave in Přestavlky u Chrudimi

In 1945 Vladimír Štěrba was promoted to colonel and in 1948 to brigadier general in memoriam .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Richard Švanda: Brigádní generál in memoriam Vladimír Štěrba , in: Vojenské rozhledy 2/2016 (Journal of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic), ISSN 1210-3292 (print) and ISSN 2336-2995 (online), page 148ff, online at : vojenskerozhledy.cz / ... (slightly modified as PDF: vojenskerozhledy.cz / ... )
  2. ↑ Brigádní generál in memoriam Vladimír Štěrba , curriculum vitae in Internetová encyklopedie dějin města Brna (Internet Encyclopedia of the History of the City of Brno), online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz / ...
  3. ↑ pplk. Vladimír Štěrba , curriculum vitae in: Encyklopedie Města Uherské Hradiště (Encyclopedia of the City of Uherské Hradiště), online at: encyklopedie.mesto-uh.cz / ...
  4. ↑ a b Richard Rozum: Osobnosti zahraničního odboje na Uherskohradišťsku , thesis, Masaryk University Brno, Brno 2011, online at: is.muni.cz / ...
  5. ↑ podplukovník Vladimír Štěrba https://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=29436
  6. ↑ War grave number: CZE5304-6491 , portal of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, online at: evidencevh.army.cz / ... ;
personal data
SURNAME Štěrba, Vladimír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak general and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Přestavlky u Chrudimi
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1940
Place of death Brno