Štátny súd a jeho činnosť v rokoch 1948 – 1952

• Authors: Róbert Letz

Title variants

EN

The State Court and its activity in the years 1948 – 1952

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the history of the State Court. This specialized court acted on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia under the Act 232/1948 Coll. from 6 October 1948 until its abolition on 31 December 1952. The State Court was one of the basic institutions used by the Communist Party as an instrument of punishment of its real and imaginary opponents. The State Court was centralized institution. Its centre was in Prague and was led by Hugo Richter as its president. In addition the center has got two departments – in Brno and in Bratislava. The boards of the State Court judged the most serious cases concerning the action against the Communist regime according the cruel Act 231/1948 Coll. (treason, military betrayal, espionage, sabotage). We have got an indication that the State Court sentenced in the Czech part of the state a total of 15,630 people. Due to the incompleteness, it is difficult to determine the exact number of prisoners sentenced by the Department of the State Court in Bratislava (led by Karel Bedrna). After further archival research it was managed to finalize more accurate data. The total number of sentenced by the State Court in Slovakia, as well as missing two months of November and December 1952, can reasonably be estimated at 2,884 persons. The State Court worked in Czechoslovakia overall during four years and two months. The State Court went down in the modern history as a tool of hard repression and as a symbol of injustice. This is evidenced by the fact that the most of its judgments were later on canceled by the rehabilitation proceedings.

Keywords

EN

State Court; after-war period; Slovakia

• Publisher: Katedra histórie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Mateja Bela
• Journal: Acta historica Neosoliensia Vedecký časopis pre historické vedy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 105-119
• Physical description: czasopismo

Contributors

author

Róbert Letz

• Katedra histórie, Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Komenského, Račianska 59, 813 34 Bratislava, Slovakia

Identifiers

ISSN

1336-9148