My father was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Nazis, I was absurdly condemned by the Communists for supporting fascism
Stáhnout obrázek
Tomáš Kohout was born on 18 August 1952 in České Budějovice. In August 1968, he painted banners with the words „Idita domoj“ and „Brezhnev has gone mad“ and put them on the road near Velešín. At the Velešín railway station he persuaded the soldiers to return home because everything was fine in Czechoslovakia. On the first anniversary of the August occupation in 1969, he and a friend painted signs on the main road near Velešín: „Man, remember“, „David will defeat Goliath“, „USSR, don‘t piss the Czechoslovakia“, „21 August Day of Shame“. In 1971 he bought a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He listened to foreign music and was interested in all things of American origin. Together with Miroslav Muck they organized an unofficial group Hell‘s Angels, went to tea parties and organized secret discos. On staged charges, he was sentenced to six months‘ imprisonment in 1972 for the crime of supporting and promoting fascism. He joined the army in 1973 as a radar operator in Mikulášovice near Rumburk, but he was not allowed to be promoted, so he remained a private throughout his military service. After the military service he was employed in the Transport Company as a driver and later as a dispatcher. He graduated from the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina. He was on Wenceslas Square on 19 and 20 November 1989, and was therefore the best informed person in the České Budějovice Transport Company. During the General Strike in České Budějovice on 27 November he was the spokesman of the Transport Company. He attended meetings of the Civic Forum (OF) in České Budějovice. In 1990 he became a director of the Transport Company. At the beginning of the 1990s he was involved in the Freedom Union (US). From 1999 to 2005 he served as president of the Prague Harley-Davidson Club, and in 2003 he co-organized the Harley-Davidson Super Rally in the South Bohemian capital. In 2022, Tomáš Kohout lived in České Budějovice.
