MUDr. Adolf Lick

* 1930

  • "In silent nights, when your shadow rushes forth, oh caribou, oh caribou, the northern lights shining all around, oh caribou, oh caribou. The ground crumbles under your hooves, our eyes burn with feverish passion. A treacherous shot has thundered from the barrel, oh caribou, oh caribou, it was aimed at you; you fell nobly, oh caribou, oh caribou."

  • "I signed it for the leadership, of course, and then even the chairman of the party signed it, and the chairman of the ROH (Revolutionary Trade Union Movement), those were the three such decisive elements that were worked with. So they signed the protest here and it was sent to the leadership. It was deposited at the party organs and it kind of weighed down on the cadre material for all those who signed it. We didn't recall it in any way, it was passed by silence, I don't remember signing anything recalling it, it was generally overturned. I went through that sort of party vetting of senior staff, I went through that, I was allowed to stay in post, I wasn't removed from post. I was interviewed, there I had to repent at that interview, recant the troop entry (signing the petition), there was no other way to say it, well you could say it, but I didn't say it, so I recanted and I was able to continue to stay on as a hospital director. Maybe if I hadn't recanted I probably would have been excused and I would have had to go back to GP or I don't know what I would have done."

  • "In 1945, the Germans were still in the borderlands and they didn't want to harvest the crops, and we scouts or other people were deployed to the borderlands to help harvest the crops. Our scout troop was assigned to Boršov near Moravská Třebová, where we were assigned to individual farms, and we lived alone in the school. We helped to harvest the crops, and the end of it was quite attractive for us, because there was a dairy there, and the Germans were sabotaging somewhere and blowing up some of the businesses there, so we as little boys, but there were older boys with us, so we got a rifle and we guarded the dairy. So five of us went there and the oldest one had a rifle in case something happened. Otherwise, we lived in the school, where there was also a guard all the time to make sure that nothing happened to us. Fortunately, it went off without any interference and we went home safe."

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It could have been said, but I didn’t say it.

Adolf Lick in 1957
Adolf Lick in 1957
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Adolf Lick was born on 25 November 1930 in Boskovice to parents Štěpánka and Adolf Lick. Soon after the end of the war, he joined the scout organization and in the summer of 1945 he participated with other scouts from Boskovice in the call of the then government “Help the borderlands”. In the Sudetenland in Boršov near Moravská Třebová they helped with the harvest. As an active sportsman he joined the renewed Sokol and in 1948 he took part in the XI. the All-Sokol meeting in Prague. After graduating from the Boskovice Grammar School, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Brno, where he graduated in 1956. While still studying, he met his future wife Hana Čejková, they married on New Year’s Eve 1955 and had two sons, Petr (1959) and Jan (1960). He first joined the district hospital in Bílovec near Ostrava, later working as a factory doctor at KOH-I-NOOR, where he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1957. In 1958 he returned to his native Boskovice, worked as a district doctor and in 1963 accepted the offer of the position of deputy director of the OÚNZ (District Institute of National Health). After the occupation of the Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact), he signed a petition against their entry and withdrew his signature during the normalisation period. In 1974, he became the director of the hospital, during his tenure there were several chiefs with bad cadres, whom he kept in office. Along with the post of hospital director, he held another important post in the city party committee. He was reprimanded by the party authorities for arranging the funeral of the hospital’s chief medical officer Milos Slonka. During the Velvet Revolution, he spoke for the town party committee during the general strike on Boskovice Square. After his dismissal as director of the hospital, he worked for sixteen years as a GP in Boskovice. Currently (2024) he lives in the family home and he and his wife will celebrate sixty-nine years together.