Maybe I’m a little affected by the fact that somehow I don’t seem to just care about myself
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Jiří Hezký was born on May 24, 1928 in Domažlice. When Jiří was less than 12 years old, the Nazis took his father Josef Hezký to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he spent two and a half years. In his first year at university, Jiří became involved in politics, he became a member of the Všehrd academic association, and in February 1948 he joined the march for President Beneš. From 1948, he helped with the transfer of emigrants to the West and established contact with the Counter intelligence corps CIC. For this reason, the witness was arrested and imprisoned in the autumn of 1948 - first in Domažlice, then in Pilsen and finally in Prague in Pankrác. After half a year, however, he was released, allegedly because the interrogated CIC agent changed his resignation. However, he was expelled from a business school. Jiří was called into the army to the Auxiliary Technical Battalions (PTP) in 1950. At first he worked in mines in the Most region, later in the Ostrava region. Sport and singing helped him survive the service at PTP - he became a member of the singing club and organized sports trainings. While still in the military service, he started distance learning at a Technical university of Ostrava, and in the 1960s he then obtained the title of Candidate of Sciences. He worked at the Research Institute of Construction Economics in Bratislava. After the Velvet Revolution, he worked for many years in the leading European research group Euroconstruct focused on construction. For many years, Jiří Hezký was in the chair of the Domažlice Club of the Czech PTP Association and he was going to schools to hold a discussion about his experience.
