In Štěpánov the red hand rages, tearing down leaflets and schedule pages
Hynek Jurman was born on 4 February 1956 in Nové Město na Moravě to parents Marta and Hynek Jurman. His father‘s cousin Lt. Colonel Adolf Jurman, a member of the RAF (Royal Air Force), had to leave Czechoslovakia involuntarily three times. Hynek witnessed his last escape from the country in August 1968. During the period of normalisation, he had problems getting into a school with a humanity focus. In 1975, he graduated from the Secondary Industrial School in Žďár nad Sázavou. Just before the graduation he was interrogated by the State Secret Police (StB) and threatened with expulsion from school. A negative personnel report did not allow him to study at the Department of Journalism, so he graduated from the Brno University of Technology. After completing his military service, he joined the national enterprise MEZ Brno, Moravian Electro-technical Factory with a branch in Štěpánov nad Svratkou. Several times he was offered to join the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, but he refused every time. Problems at work, but also in his personal life, forced him to change jobs after 1985. He joined the nuclear power plant in Dukovany. He was on initial training in Trnava at the time of the Chernobyl explosion. He was actively involved in the events of 1989, he co-founded the local Civic Forum (OF) and became its spokesman. He has written countless articles for various periodicals, several tourist guides, plays, 37 books, where he has put into perspective events from World War II to the present. From 1989, he taught at the vocational school in Bystřice nad Pernštejnem, where he started working at the information centre in 2005. After his retirement (2020) he initiated the placement of a memorial plaque to Lt. Colonel Adolf Jurman on his birthplace. In 2021 he lived in Štěpánov nad Svratkou.