When I wanted to do research and development, the red book was unfortunately a condition
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Rudolf Plzák was born on 9 May 1952 in Pilsen as the younger of two brothers, the family lived on a small farm in Koterov. From his youth he served as a volunteer fireman, admired the banned Scout. His grandparents had their farm taken away in the 1950s, and his brother Pavel was not allowed to go to high school because of this. In 1967 he entered the newly opened Secondary Military Automotive Industrial School in Nitra, which he successfully completed in 1971. In 1968 he witnessed the arrival of the occupation troops in Pilsen, where he was on holiday at the time. After graduating from high school, he was selected to study at the military college in Brno, where he graduated as a tank-automobile mechanical engineer. He married in the mid-1970s and raised two daughters with his wife. He served in the army in various places until 2007. Over the years, he completed postgraduate studies in logistics, which he helped introduce to the Army at the General Staff in Prague. After the revolution, the army professionalized and significant changes took place after the division of Czechoslovakia in January 1993. In 2024 he was living in Příbram, but he returns to his native Pilsen region more and more often.
