After the election of Miloš Zeman, I had to become civically engaged
Tomáš Rimpel was born on June 22, 1946, in Prague and grew up on the border of Pankrác and Podolí. Both his parents were of Jewish origin, survivors of concentration camps, but he himself was brought up in a non-religious spirit. After elementary school, he trained as a turner. From 1965-1967 he served in the Border Guard in Ašský výběžek, after the war he started working as a driver for the Ministry of Finance. A week after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, he decided to emigrate to Germany - he then lived in Cologne and the surrounding area. At first, he worked as a turner, driver, locksmith - hydraulic engineer, later he joined a company that produced reproduction cameras as a service technician. In the 1980s he became independent and started his own business in the same field. After the Velvet Revolution, he started a business in the Czech Republic, selling and servicing reproduction cameras and other printing equipment. After long-lasting misunderstandings with his Czech partners, he closed his business in the Czech Republic and again did business only in Germany. In 2013 he returned permanently to the Czech Republic. At the time of filming in 2022, he was living in Prague - Lipenice. He became a civic activist and a member of TOP 09.