PRVNÍ ZE TŘÍ KONŠELŮ. ZPRAVODAJSKÝ DŮSTOJNÍK ŠTÁBNÍ KAPITÁN FRANTIŠEK FÁREK (1894–1973)

• Authors: Vyhlídal Milan

Title variants

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The first of the three aldermen. Intelligence officer, Staff Captain, František Fárek (1894 – 1973)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The work is a biography of the Czechoslovak intelligence officer, František Fárek. Since all the break through moments of the CS Republic were reflected in his life, along with description of the broader historical context, he becomes our notional guide through the CS military history of the 1st half of the 20th century. In addition to the archival materials of CS origin, documents about his activity are also fund in the German Freiburg. Also Fárek’s inheritance, held by his descendants until this day, was used as significant material. Following a close-up on his activity during the 1st CS republic, the published material focuses mainly on the period of World War 2. Immediately following the Nazi occupation, Fárek took part in the resistance (the so called Three Aldermen Group), providing intelligence information to the emerging foreign military resistance (the intelligence exhibition around the Colonel of the General Staff, František Moravec in Great Britain), together with his colleagues from the intelligence department, captain Antonín Longa and Alois Čáslavka. For his intelligence activities, he was arrested by Gestapo in the fall of 1939 along with Antonín Longa and after being convicted for 10 years of prison, he spent the rest of the war as the political prisoner of the Nazi Germany. In April 1945, he lived to see the liberation by the American Army. Following the Communist revolution, as the former intelligence officer, he remained under control of the Communist secret service.

Keywords

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA; INTELLIGENCE OFFICER; FÁREK FRANTIŠEK

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 123 - 145

Contributors

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Vyhlídal Milan

• Univerzita obrany v Brně, Kounicova 65, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic