From a pyrotechnician to the commander of a UN peacekeeping mission, from a builder to the director of the Security Office of the Slovak Republic - The life and career of Štefan Jangl
Štefan Jangl, born in 1955, became a builder already through high school, which later led him to the engineer army with a center in Sereď, where he held several commanding positions. He survived the revolutionary year 1989 and the division of Czechoslovakia as a student at the Military Academy in Vyškov, and in the years 1994 – 1998 he worked in the UN peacekeeping forces during the war in the former Yugoslavia. He started here as a chief pyrotechnician and finally became the fourth and last commander of the Slovak engineer battalion within the UN international peacekeeping mission, specifically in the UNTAES mission in Eastern Slavonia. After returning to Slovakia, he held several leading positions related to state defense and intelligence, in particular he was the director of the Security Office of the Slovak Republic in 2002 – 2008. From 2008 until his retirement in 2021, he was a teacher at the University of Žilina at the Faculty of Safety Engineering and deputy head of the Department of Safety Management.