Josef Smitek
1885–1956 (age 71)
Biography
Josef Smitek was born in 1885 and lived until 1956, experiencing the major transformations of twentieth-century Czech history. His long life witnessed the birth of Czechoslovakia, the interwar republic, and the postwar communist period.
He is remembered in the Main cemetery in Louny, where his final resting place honors his memory and his place in the community during these transformative decades.