From the State Security custody to a judicial robe
Stáhnout obrázek
Emil Krause was born on 3 August 1934 in Jilemnice. After Munich Dictate, he departed from Sudetenland for security reasons; he concretely left Olšany where his father worked in local paper mills. They lived in Palmovka in Prague during Protectorate, he remembers the air raids on Prague in February and March 1945. After the communist putsch in February 1948, he and his schoolmates organized a resistance group. They published a magazine called V boj (Fight!) and planned acts of sabotage. They tried to run away across the borders in 1951 and they wanted to join the army there and to free the Republic. They were caught by the border guards and Emil Krause ended up in the State Security custody in Bartolomějská Street when he was seventeen years old. The judge gave him a lenient sentence thanks to his minority and the judge´s warm-hearted behaviour inspired him to become a judge one day. He was again caught while crossing the borders in 1953, this time it happened in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was released after almost a year in custody prison and he joined the Auxiliary technical battalions. He arranged for the cancellation of the ban on further studies and after his Secondary-school leaving exam he was admitted to study law as an extramural student. He graduated in 1962. He worked as a civil judge in Nymburk from 1964. He served as a judge during the whole normalization and he allegedly never gave up the hope for improving conditions. He was appointed President of the Central Bohemian Court by the then Minister of Justice Dagmar Burešová in 1990. He participated in the transformation of Czech justice in the 1990s. Emil Krause died on March 1st, 2023.
