Bedřich Homola

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Army General Bedřich Homola (2 June 1887, Běleč – 5 January 1943, Berlin, Plötzensee Prison) was a Czechoslovak soldier, general, legionnaire who fought for the Allies during the First World War, and the Head Commander of the anti-Nazi resistance organization Obrana národa ("Defense of the Nation") during the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. He used the code name Ataman.

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Youth He was born on 2 June 1887, in Běleč, today a part of Liteň, to Václav and Marie Homola, who were peasants. After completing elementary school in Lithuania in 1899 he attended secondary school in Hostomice, transferring in 1901 to a German-language school in Bílina. From 1903 to 1907 he attended the College of Civil Engineering in Prague. In 1907–08 he was employed by the Prague architect Zuslicht. In 1908–09 he did volunteer work in Prague; in 1909–10 he worked for a construction company in Serbia and from 1910 to 1914 he had a job at the Prague City Hall.

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Austrian Army Homola joined the Austrian Army as part of the mobilization of 27 July 1914. As a member of the 88th Infantry Regiment, he went to the Russian Front, where he was injured in September and returned home. A year later, now holding the rank of Lieutenant, he returned to the front at Debrecen and Galicia. On September 14, 1915, he was wounded again and captured by the Russians, who took him to Moscow.

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Czechoslovak legions in Russia Homola joined the Czechoslovak legions in Russia on 15 February 1916. He served as a company commander, then as the enlisted school commander. He went on to become commander of the section Čenokovka – Doč at Bachmače and then commander of the Northern Front. Beginning on 25 May he commanded a staff train and participated in the fighting at Marjanovky. On 27 October 1918, having been promoted to the rank of Major, he was appointed deputy commander of the officer school. On 20 July 2019, he became inspector of divisional courses for non-commissioned officers. On 29 September 1919, he married Galina Faddějev, with whom he had a son, Oleg Homola (1921–2001), who would grow up to become a anti-Nazi political prisoner held in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where he was influenced by the leftist intellectuals and became a Communist Party politician who didn’t vote for the presence of the Warsaw Pact armies in Czechoslovakia in 1968 for which he was expelled from the party and became a literary scholar who used his position to employ dissidents. On 22 April 1920, he set off on a trip to Vladivostok, returning to his homeland via Singapore, Suez, and…Citește mai mult

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First and Second Republics In 1921–22 he attended the war school in Prague. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel on 20 September 1922, and was appointed deputy commander of the military academy in Hranice na Moravě. After the suicides of two academy students, one of them the son of the Artillery Commander of the 1st Division of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia, drew media attention to the strict regime Homola had established at the academy, he was transferred to the Staff 7th Infantry Division in Olomouc, where he served as commander. On 10 January 1925, he was promoted to Colonel and beginning on 1 October 1925, he was commander of the 27th Regiment in Olomouc. On 1 January 1927, he was appointed interim commander, and on 31 March commander, of the 14th Infantry Brigade in Kroměříž. On 21 February 1929, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. On 5 March he became commander of the 1st Infantry Division and garrison commander of Prague. On 1 July 1935, he became commander of the VII Army Corps with the rank of Divisional General. He participated in both of the mobilizations in 1938, in May and September. From…Citește mai mult

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Arrest and execution He was arrested on 31 December 1941, at the corner of King George Square and Vinohradská Street in Prague. He was incarcerated in the Pankrác Prison, from which he was transported for questioning in Petschek Palace. In September 1942 he was taken to Dresden and from there to Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, where he was sentenced to death for high treason. During his last days in captivity he conducted himself with courage. He was executed on 5 January 1943. In October 1946 he was promoted posthumously to General of the Army, effective October 1942.

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Orders and decorations Order of Saint Anne II. class with swords (1919) Czechoslovak War Cross 1914–1918 The Order of M. R. Stefanik "Sokol" for valor (September 17, 1919) Czechoslovak Victory medal War Cross with Palm Tree (France, November 1928) during the fighting in Siberia Officer of the Legion of Honor (France, October 7, 1931) Štefánik's commemorative badge of the first degree (Czechoslovakia, September 27, 1945) Czechoslovak War Cross 1939