Zdénko von Helfert (Q395272)
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* 19.5.1879 Plzeň † 8.9.1945 Prague, school principal, resistance fighter, prof., Pilsen, Dvorákova ul. 8
- Zdeněk Helfert
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* 19.5.1879 Plzeň † 8.9.1945 Prague, school principal, resistance fighter, prof., Pilsen, Dvorákova ul. 8 |
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19 May 1879Gregorian
8 September 1945
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Zdeněk svobodný pán Helfert was born on 19 May 1879 in Kopčany, Slovakia. He studied economics and married Anna noblewoman Tučková (* May 18, 1878; † April 30, 1936) on June 13, 1903, with whom he had sons PhDr. Zdeněk Helfert (* 9. 5. 1909; † 14. 4. 1994) and Mirka (Mirko) Helferta (* 7. 11. 1913; † 23. 11. 2008). From the magazine Otavan, we read on November 16, 1917: "The current teacher of the peasant school in Pilsen, Zdeněk Free Mr. Helfert, was appointed director of the Winter School of Economics in Volhynia." Mirek Helfert, Zdeněk's son, recalled that " winter, because the sons of the farms in the area could not otherwise ". The KČT in Volhynia was renewed on 14 May 1920, when Zdeněk Helfert, director of the Winter School of Economics, was elected its chairman at the inaugural general meeting. Zdeněk left Volyně in 1924. Later he was represented by the Chilean saltpeter in the Czechoslovak Republic, but above all he devoted himself to Masonic activities in the higher rank of Kredo of the Czechoslovak Masonic Lodge Jan Amos Komenský. The lodge was founded on May 12, 1919 and adhered to the ideas and ideological legacy of one of the most original thinkers in our history.
During the occupation at the turn of 1942 and 1943, together with the historian Kamil Kroft, the poet Jaroslav Kvapil and the lawyer Emil Lány, they formed the resistance organization Preparatory National Revolutionary Committee. After the group was discovered in the summer of 1944, leaders were imprisoned. Zdeněk was arrested in Potštejn on July 3, 1944, in the house of Mrs. Jarmila Kalousková, and taken to the Gestapo office in Hradec Králové. From there he was transferred to the Small Fortress Terezín on July 6, 1944 and from there to the prison in Prague's Pankrác. He returned to the Small Fortress on February 9, 1945 and was placed in cell No. 47. At the end of the war, he met in a mass cell with his brothers Vladimír and Jaroslav. The last known date of Zdeněk in Terezín is 5 May 1945.
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In the newspapers from 1946 we read that several prisoners infected with typhus were transported on 5 May 1945, before the guards left Terezín. Prof. prof. MUDr. Jiří Syllaba, a physician in 1945. He took Zdeněk Helfert and cartoonist, illustrator and illustrator František Bidl to Na Bulovce Hospital in critical condition. But also another healthy man, so they were afraid it would happen. Before leaving the fortress, Commander Rojko came to the ambulance, shielded the main submachine gun with the tip of a lousy blanket, and Zdeněk lay on the edge with his face swollen with red typhus spots. Rojko waved for them to go… Zdeněk died at the Na Bulovce Hospital on the night of 9 May 1945. He had his last farewell on 19 May 1945 from the municipal chapel at Olšany Cemetery, on his birthday. He was buried in the tomb of a friendly family, and probably already in 1946 his remains were transported to Potštejn and buried in the family grave
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