Jiří Navrátil

Jiří Navrátil
President of Junák
Personal details
Born (1923-09-10)10 September 1923
Germany
Died 16 January 2017(2017-01-16) (aged 93)
Czech Republic

Jiří Navrátil (10 September 1923 – 16 January 2017) served as the President of Junák, the Czech Scout and Guide association.

Navrátil was born in Germany where his father was a consul. In 1937 he became a Scout in Prague. He was arrested and held several months by the Gestapo during World War II. In 1949, he tried to oppose the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia with other Scouts. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and was released in 1960.

During the Prague Spring in 1968, Navrátil was one of the refounders of Junák, the Czech Scout movement, which was suppressed again in 1970. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he became one of the main Leaders of the third restoration of Junák.

He was one of the facilitators of the 1999 10th European Conference of Guiding and Scouting in Prague, in which President Václav Havel gave the opening speech.

In 2002, Navrátil was awarded the 292nd Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[1][2]

Navrátil died on 16 January 2017 at the age of 93.[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list complete list
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  3. ↑ V 93 letech zemřel bývalý politický vězeň a skaut Jiří Navrátil (in Czech)


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