In 1953, the family lost their savings. All they had left was lard
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Jaromír Rychtr was born on 9th May 1943. He grew up with his parents in the small village of Roudnice in the Krkonoše Mountains, and after the Second World War, they moved to Vrchlabí. At first, they shared their house with Germans, who were, however, deported in 1946. Jaromír Rychtr and his two siblings grew up in a religious family, and during the 1950s, they often visited other like-minded people. In 1957 he entered the Secondary Industrial Textile School in Jilemnice and successfully graduated in 1961. His compulsory military service followed in Kbely, Prague. After returning from the military, Jaromír Rychtr worked in a textile factory in Mladé Buky. He gradually worked his way up in the industry and gained a management position. Despite being pressured, he never joined the Communist Party. In the 1990s, he became a member of the KDU-ČSL (Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party, transl.). In 2023, he lived with his family in Vrchlabí.
