Rely on your own common sense and do not let yourself be influenced by authorities
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František Jaroš was born on the 2nd of January 1940 in Boskovice to a mother who took care of the household and a father, who worked freelance to trade with all kinds of machines. Until the year 1948 he did Scouting. After attending a city school he went on to an industrial middle school in Pardubice and during his mandatory military service he managed to get into the Chemical-Technological College in Pardubice, where he studied chemical physics and stayed as a postgraduate student and then later an employee. During his studies he pursued his hobby of rock climbing, which became a lifelong passion for him. Whenever he could, he went climbing into the mountains. He understood the communist regime as the status quo, but in the year 1967 he became more radicalized under the influence of some of his acquaintances. In the August of the year 1968 under the direct influence of the ongoing occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies he climbed on top of the rock Milenec in the Adršpachy rock range and stayed there for five days on a hunger strike. In the year 1970 he was thrown out of the faculty, because he refused to attend the screening commission. In the following years he switched between multiple professions in Liberec. After his wedding he moved to Broumov with his wife and became a chimney sweep. He did not care much about the political events of the time. During the Velvet Revolution in the year 1989 he took part in a demonstration in Broumov, then shortly after was active in the Civic Democratic Party. He always considered himself a soloist and always lived life on his own terms.
