Ján Bugel

Ján Bugel was born on August 23, 1923, in Slovakia in Kalniště. In 1943, he was drafted to military service in the Slovak army. In Zvolen, he served as a liaison officer of his unit and as the “batman” of the commander of the first division, later of the German military supervisor. During the Slovak National Uprising in the summer of 1944, he worked briefly at the airport Tri Duby and in the barracks in Zvolen at a warehouse from which supplied civilians with gear and arms. He participated in the Battle of Strečno, for example. At the end of the war he joined the Czechoslovak army advancing under the command of Colonel Svoboda. After an injury in Liptovský Mikuláš, he served with the field police, which was supposed to “clear” the trenches in the rear and detain the fleeing Germans. He was the commander of one of the detention camps for the Germans established in Jihlava. After the war, he worked in the Prague tatrovka factory as a worker. He also joined the Social Democratic Party. In the 1960s, he became a professional soldier and served at the Pardubice airport as the commander of the mobilization store. He died in 2011.

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