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Vladimír Grégr (* 1933)

You have to carry on the family tradition

  • +born April 5th 1933 to the Grégr family +his family ran a printing company in Praha´s Nové Město (The New Town) +his father Eduard Grégr had been the company director, his mother Milada née Mellanová was the daughter of a famous Praha´s lawyer +his uncle Vladimír Grégr, an architect, participated in anti-Nazi resistance and was executed by the Nazis on February 22nd 1943 +after the Second World War, he studied at The King George of Poděbrady Central Bohemian College (Středočeská kolej krále Jiřího z Poděbrad) with Miloš Forman and Václav Havel among his classmates +he graduated from Jan Neruda Gymnasium in Malá Strana, Praha +after February 1948, the printing company had been nationalised, the family had to move to a flat in Belgická street +he had been working at the Energoprojekt company, then at the Orlík Reservoir construction site +he graduated in Construction Economics at Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) +he was a road construction supervisor at District Investment Enterprise (Krajský investiční podnik) +in 1965, he wanted to emigrate but his plan was marred +in 1968, he emigrated to Switzerland via Austria with his wife Jana +the family settled in Luzern, Switzerland +he had been working at a cantonal office till retirement +after 1989, the family got the printing company building back in a run-down condition +the family had the company building in Hálkova street renovated

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