I didn´t catch up with him at the campus, maybe I could have convinced him
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Hubert Bystřičan was born on September 25, 1942 in Frýdek. His father was a gamekeeper, so he grew up in the environment of gamekeeper´s cabins in the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy. After graduating from high school and completing basic military service, he studied at the Prague University of Economics and Business in 1963–1968. During his studies, he often went abroad for international student summer jobs. On a trip to Kazakhstan in 1967, he met Jan Palach, who set himself on fire on January 16, 1969 as a protest against the growing resignation of the society after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the five Warsaw Pact states. Just before his death, Palach sent Hubert Bystřičan a postcard signed Your Hus. The witness was subsequently interrogated several times by State Security. In the years 1968–1992, Hubert Bystřičan worked at Kablo Kladno and then until his retirement as an economist at the airport. In 2019, a commemorative plaque to Jan Palach at the Prague University of Economics and Business was unveiled, among other things, thanks to him. At the time of filming in 2022, Hubert Bystřičan lived in Kladno.
