Dr. Edvard Beneš. Sein Leben
Dr. Edvard Beneš. His Life

Author(s): Jaroslav Papoušek
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Summary/Abstract: Masaryk - Beneš, How different personalities and yet how similar in origin, performance, willingness to sacrifice, courage, will, way of thinking. Personalities who complemented each other so much in fighting and working for the state. Apparitions, different in age, temperament and personal fate, but united by a friendship that arose from the agreement of goals and from the common struggle and the common devotion to the people and the state. Just as little can be said about their personal joys and sufferings, so much can be said about their work for the nation, state and humanity. That is why their biographies are so closely linked to the development of the people, to their struggles and successes. When Masaryk retired into private life, he recommended Beneš as his successor. He said, “I know him.” He could say this with greater certainty than most others. They had both thought, created and fought together for more than twenty years. This book is dedicated to this joint work, insofar as it was carried out by Beneš, which perhaps lists his services to the people and the state all too objectively and certainly only does partial justice to the topic. But at least this brief summary of biographical data sufficiently illustrates how and why, over the course of thirty years, the country child and student Beneš became a statesman of world renown and the successor to the president-liberator.

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