27.10.2015 - Zemřel účastník II. a III. odboje Leopold Färber

Today Tuesday 27. October died at the age of nearly 88 years old war veteran (guerrilla) and later a political prisoner Leopold Färber.

As a young member of the scout and the czechoslovak patriot he served in the second world war as a liaison between the odbojovými group on the territory of the former protectorate.

After the takeover of power by the communists protested against the zincenovanému process with M. Horáková, in common with the brothers Markovými founded the anticommunist cell, in which a planned attack on a police school in Jeseník using stolen explosives (probably due to careless handling with them, however, there was an explosion, which it had prepared on the left eye). Subsequently inspired to create an illegal scout odílu, who made it, but it already didn't spread anti-communist leaflets ("Death to the communists"), because it occurred to his arrest. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison (and he went through prisons in Pilsen-Bory, in the Jáchymov or in Leopoldov), while after the middle of his sentence he was released to freedom.

L. Färber was the wearer of many scouting honors, and through the prezidneta v. Klaus he was loaned also one of the highest state orders - the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk III. class.


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