The communist regime managed to intimidate people
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Mikuláš Havrlík was born on April 23, 1934 in Kocourkov, Teplice region. His father Mikuláš Havrlík was a renowned expert in deep coal mining. In 1938, after the occupation of the Sudetenland, he, his younger brother Svatopluk and his parents moved to Louny to live with his mother Marie Havrlíková‘s parents. His father was offered a job in the Bata mines in Ratiškovice near Zlín. The family therefore moved to Zlín, where they lived until the summer of 1945. After the war, the Havrlík family returned to Kocourkov. He studied at the grammar school in Teplice. There he experienced the efforts of some students to intimidate teachers. After graduation, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. In 1957, after graduation, he worked as an employee of the Organisation for the Rationalisation of Power Equipment. Three years later he returned to Teplice, where he worked at the Ignis company. From 1967 until the mid-1990s he worked at the Sklo Union glassworks in Teplice. In 2025 he lived in Teplice.
