Jaroslav Staněk

Jaroslav Staněk was born on February 16, 1926, in Nová Cerekev in the region of Vysočina. However, soon after his birth the family moved to the city district of Žižkov in Prague, where Jaroslav Staněk attended an elementary school and then he attended a grammar school in Dvořákova Street. In 1942, he began his studies at the engineering college in Betlémská Street. He completed his university studies in 1960 at the Faculty of engineering in Prague. In 1940, Jaroslav and other boys from Žižkov founded a scout troop. The Scout main office registered them as the number 52. However, shortly afterwards, the Nazis made the Scout illegal and its activities had to be carried out secretly. During the Prague uprising, Jaroslav Staněk fought at the barricades in Žižkov as well as in the Prague city center. After the war, he joined the Communist Party – it was by the end of February 1946. He worked for instance at the Main Administration of Education and Public Awareness of the MNO in Prague, at the Military Engineering Academy in Smíchov, the armament planning department of the MNO, the Military Division of the Office of the Government Presidium, the General Staff. And since 1968 till 1990, at the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines.

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