State Security officer wanted to know who invited him to Rome
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Antonín Trávníček was born on 26 May 1940 in Milovy near Sněžné as the first of five children. His father Antonín Trávníček was a forester and his mother Anežka Trávníčková was a housewife. As a child he experienced the retreat of Schörner’s army through the Highlands and the arrival of the Red Army. His father was a member of the Czechoslovak People’s Party and the family attended church. Because of that he was allowed to study at secondary school and became a frequency mechanic for electronic devices in Tesla Pardubice. He then graduated from the evening industrial school in Pardubice and worked at Tesla. From 1959 to 1961 he served his military service with the radio technicians in Týn nad Vltavou. In 1966 he married and he and his wife had five sons. He lived through the occupation in 1968 at the radio station in Žďár nad Sázavou. He ran and skied competitively and played football. From 1986 he worked as a People’s Party secretary at the District National Committee in Žďár nad Sázavou. In 1989 he visited an emigrant friend in Rome and was interrogated by State Security upon his return. In 1990 he became mayor of Herálec, where he served two terms. In 2024, he was living in Herálec under Žákova Hora.
