František Teuner

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František Teuner
Born(1911-03-06)6 March 1911
Benešov, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died25 June 1978(1978-06-25) (aged 67)
Nuremberg, Federal Republic of Germany
Alma materCharles University
OccupationPhysician

František Teuner (6 March 1911 – 25 June 1978) was a Czech physician and a leader of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth ("Kuratorium") in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Biography[edit]

Teuner studied at Charles University, receiving his medical degree in 1935, after which he went into the practice of medicine.[1] While attending university, he joined the Vlajka.[1] Following the German occupation of the Czech lands, Teuner resigned his membership in the Vlajka and eventually coordinated with Emanuel Moravec in the creation of the Kuratorium, becoming one of its principal leaders.[1][2]

In 1945, with the Red Army quickly advancing on Prague, Teuner departed the capital for Plzeň. In 1947, he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He was arrested by United States forces in Munich in April 1947 and surrendered to the reconstituted Czechoslovak authorities who commuted his sentence from death to imprisonment; as an inmate he served as a prison doctor in Pankrác Prison and other facilities.[3][2] He was released in 1963 and eventually moved to West Germany, where he continued the practice of medicine.[4]

In 2021, Czech director Ondřej Veverka released a short film, Teuner, described as a psychological drama set in a prison where Teuner serves as a prison doctor.[5] Veverka later directed a documentary for Czech Television, Kuratorium, about the board of trustees.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Špringl, Jan (November 2004). "Protektorátní vzor mladého člověka Kuratorium pro výchovu mládeže v Čechách a na Moravě (1942–1945)". Soudobé dějiny (in Czech). XI (1–02). Czech Academy of Sciences: 154–177.
  2. ^ a b Houzar, Jakub (2020). Konec třicátých a čtyřicátá léta 20. století na Benešovsku ve svědectví dobových kronik a pamětníků (PDF) (PhD Thesis) (in Czech). Charles University. pp. 57–60. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  3. ^ Frommer, Benjamin (2005). National Cleansing Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. Cambridge University Press. p. 274. ISBN 9780521008969.
  4. ^ "František Teuner a česká mládež pod hákovým křížem". Czech Radio (in Czech). 10 April 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  5. ^ Veverka, Ondrej (23 September 2021), Teuner (Short, Drama), Tomás Korének, Viktor Zavadil, Jan Slovák, FAMO v Pisku, retrieved 4 December 2023
  6. ^ Veverka, Ondrej (24 May 2022), Kuratorium (Documentary, History), Karel Richter, Josef Broz, Ludvík Armbruster, Rolling Media, retrieved 4 December 2023

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