English Translation

The parents of Adolf Hr u b y lived in oppressive economic conditions. They had a small estate without fields and at the same time operated a restaurant and an old dairy. They did not get out of the debt. Otherwise they were known for their intolerance. The father of the Hr u b y died of back marketuberculosis, the mother was killed while threshing. He has two brothers; Josef, who lives in Neuhaus and operates here an age with agricultural machines, the second brother Wenzel strongly mentally disturbed in the madhouse. His sister married H a n t o v á in Mlaka also became insane• She left behind a son who had a sick foot. So that this son would not be burdened with the social care of the community, Hruby asserted that he would become parish secretary, which post he held until today. H r u b y is married for the second time. His first wife Elisabeth died and he took her sister as his wife. Hruby attended the Volks- und Bürgerschule. After finishing school he entered the iron shop L u k e š in Wittengau to teach, where he remained until the end of the apprenticeship. Then he worked as a trade assistant in Vienna and shortly before the outbreak of the last world war he was employed at the company Schenker in Bremen. During the last World War he only performed military relief services, on the front he was not. After the war, when his brother Wenceslas died, he took over the restaurant and catering business, as well as the management of the estate in Mlaka. At that time, the propaganda for the implementation of the ground referendum began in the former Czechoslovak Republik and Svehla, the leader of the then republican party of the Czechoslav province, called for the movement of the "landless" and holders of smaller land holdings to implement the land reform, the so-called "Heimatler", to which Hruby reported. He provided this party with paid agitator services and in the section of South Bohemia all agitation and later also election meetings, suddenly he became district secretary and the party set up a secretariat in Wittingau, where he served and gave functions to the members. In this capacity he worked closely with Father Krojher, pastor in Ledenitz, who was the leader of the republican party of the Czechoslavak province for the entire Budweiser district. The party appointed him