He had death on his back at the shaft. But the money was worth it
Download image
Miroslav Drdlík was born on 12 January 1937 in Lom near Most. His daddy and his grandfather were miners. When his father Adolf Drdlík died in a mining accident shortly after the war, Miroslav was entrusted to the care of his older brother. Despite the disapproval of his mother Antonie, née Machatová, Miroslav also embarked on a mining career. He graduated from the mining apprenticeship in Meziboří and joined the Kohinoor underground mine in Louka near Litvínov. Shortly afterwards, in 1956, he started his military service at the Border Guard, where he was an engineer and built electric barriers at the border. After the military service he got a flat and in 1961 he married his wife Danuše. They had three children - Miroslav, Dana and Pavel. In 1981 he was underground at the time of the tragedy at the neighbouring Pluto mine. A year later, he found himself underground behind a roof fall. He worked at the coal mine until 1991, when he retired. In the autumn of 2021, the widower Miroslav Drdlík was living in full health in a cottage in Český Jiřetín in the Ore Mountains.
