Silent disapproval
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Richard Štegmann was born on 11 May, 1943 in Olomouc. Since childhood he tended to sports and after signing up to the Palackého university he wished to become a PE teacher, but then he focused on biology, which he then taught all his life. He kept doing sports and playing volleyball. He started teaching at the gymnasium Hladnov, where his work was interrupted by a yearly obligatory military service. He came back to an atmosphere of the Prague spring. She spent the 21st August with his students travelling to hobs brigade. Within normalisation he was kicked out of the gymnasium Hladnov due to his brave attitude towards one of his students, who publically didn’t agree with the Soviet occupation. Yet he got a better offer from a prestige gymnasium Matiční, where he immediately started working. Due to a nepotism at the passport department he could travel a lot. He consider emigration many times, but never resolved to actually do so due to having children at home. The witness has never been and active resistance to communism, but he didn’t agree with the pre-1989 regime and welcomed the velvet revolution with joy.
