A war child born in shelter
Josef Kutěj was born at the end of the Second World War, on March 6, 1945 in Kroměříž. He was born in a shelter where he was with his mother when his father was digging defensive channels. He graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Mechanical Engineering in Vsetín and spent four years in a boarding school. Then he got a job at the Ostrava ironworks in Vítkovice. He joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1968, but left it after the Warsaw Pact invasion in August. He got married in 1972 and with his wife raised two children. He worked in Vítkovice for 52 years. In 2021 he lived in Ostrava.