Gentlemen are extinct, comrade.
Jiří Hauerland was born on 6 May 1954 in Kroměříž as the only child of his parents František and Maria. At the age of two his parents divorced. Jiří stayed with his mother, who got a job at a spa in Jeseník, where they also moved and where the witness spent his childhood. Sometime around 1960, his mother remarried - to a released political prisoner, Jiri Kopriva. In Jeseník, Jiří Hauerland was a member of the local Junák club from 1968 to 1970. Later he went to the mountains as a tramp. He trained as an electrician for a chain factory in Česká Ves, where he also took up employment and where, apart from two years of military service, he worked until 1990. After the fall of communism, he opened an electronics shop in Jeseník. As a collector, he initiated the opening of a museum of historic motorcycles in Ceska Ves, and thanks to his efforts and funding, a memorial to the victims of communism was unveiled in the centre of Jeseník in 2010. At the time of filming in 2024, he was living with his wife Hana in Česká Ves.