Bohuslav Ečer

Bohuslav Ečer (31 July 1893 – 14 March 1954) was a Czechoslovak general of the judicial service and professor of international criminal law.

He published his first work, Guilt and Morality, which is devoted to the trial of Hilda Haniková, who hired a murderer to kill her own husband.

[5] Ečer actively opposed the rising German Nazism, which he recognized as a major danger for the future, and became, for example, a member of the Committee for the Relief of Democratic Spain.

[6] After the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated with his family via Zagreb and Belgrade to Paris, where he participated in the Czechoslovak National Committee.

There he also wrote a thesis The Occupation of Bohemia and Moravia and the Establishment of the "Protectorate" in the Light of International Law, which, however, was not published due to the German attack.

Here Bohuslav Ečer became an employee of the Foreign Office Czechoslovak Government in Exile, and later was an associate of the Minister of Justice Jaroslav Stránský.

Ečer was the first to interrogate him, and as a general of the judicial service, he also retrieved him from American captivity into the hands of Czechoslovak justice.

As a former social democrat who had taken part in the war resistance in the West and who, among other things, had defended Milada Horáková, he gradually became a target of StB.

His wife Ludmila escaped persecution by hiding in a psychiatric hospital, but his daughter Jarmila was sentenced to 12 years and released after Amnesty in 1960.