Jiří Sommer

* 1939

Svědci lokálních událostí spojených s druhou světovou válkou, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu
Atentát na Reinharda Heydricha, Invaze v zátoce Sviní, Invaze vojsk Varšavské smlouvy, Počátek kolektivizace zemědělství
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    Jawa Technical Director Jaroslav Frei

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    "Mr. Janeček died in the war, so it was led by a man who was commissioned by Janeček. And he was such a terribly clever person who arranged that - it was the occupied territory here, the SS-HOF - and he went to Berlin to see Hitler or somewhere, so that they wouldn't occupy the bank of the Sázava, that there was a factory there that produced - they pretended that they were making something for airplanes then. So they confirmed it to him. At least the people who didn't have jobs, who were displaced here, they could go and work there and live in the wooden huts that they built there. So he gave them work. And then in the forty-fifth, up to the forty-eighth, he ran it, after the war."

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    They ate, thanked us and moved on

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    "I've been watching. We were also at the roadside, and when the Germans were running away, they were terribly poor, even barefoot. And I have this memory that some of them were running with their families, because they were deployed somewhere as heads of all these institutions, so the families were running with them. I know they stopped there at our place, too. They were riding on a wagon, they stopped, they were the whole family. They were from Cheb or Karlovy Vary, from somewhere - and if we had something to eat. So my mother cooked them coffee, bread with butter, because we had butter. So they ate, thanked us and went on their way."

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    Before economic check

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    "My father spoke German well, my mother spoke French too, so with the authorities and all that... We were just scared - when suddenly the farm inspection came to the village, they were hiding away the chickens and so on, how many things there were. We had more than that - more than was written down. And it was always hidden in the woods, in sacks and so on. That was such a trouble."

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    Neveklov, 21.05.2025

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I looked forward to work every day, it made me happy

Jiří Sommer
Jiří Sommer
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Jiří Sommer was born on 16 January 1939 into a family with a long forestry tradition, which was closely linked to the Auersperg noble family. He spent his childhood in a forester´s lodge near Keblov, in a landscape surrounded by deep forests, which he has always kept as his home. After graduating from primary school, he entered secondary technical school at the Žďár machinery works, but he left the school after three years and took a job at the Jawa factory in Týnec nad Sázavou. He completed his basic military service with the tank troops in Milovice and Čáslav. After returning from the army, he completed his secondary education by evening studies, which opened the way for further professional growth. At Jawa, where he started as a welder, he gradually worked his way up to the position of output quality manager. In 1963, he began racing as a motorcycle rider for the company car club. Jawa motorcycles became his lifelong passion, which did not leave him even after his retirement in 2000. In 2025, Jiří Sommer was living with his family in Neveklov.

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Jiří Sommer 80

  • datum:
    01.01.1970
  • typ média:
    Internet
  • název média:
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