Mgr. Zdeněk Hübner

* 1968

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I don’t want to look like a hero, I was scared, says demonstrator against totalitarianism

Zdeněk Hübner for the first time "in the West", cannonization of Anezka Ceska
Zdeněk Hübner for the first time "in the West", cannonization of Anezka Ceska
photo: Post Bellum

Zdeněk Hübner was born on 20 August 1968 in Ústí nad Orlicí, where he spent his childhood with his parents and younger brother Vojtěch. After primary school he was admitted to the Business Academy in Chocno, from which he successfully graduated in 1986. In the same year he applied to university, but was not accepted as a believer. So he started working at Česká spořitelna. On 10 December 1987, he took part in a demonstration on Old Town Square called by Charter 77. He was also active during the November 1989 demonstrations. In the same year he travelled to the Vatican, which he visited on the occasion of the canonization of Agnes of Bohemia. In 1991 he was admitted to the Faculty of Science and Philosophy of Charles University. Today he is a teacher of history and geography in Česká Třebová.