PhDr. Jiří Neminář | Marginalizace

Place of employment: Muzeum Hlučínska

Address: Zámecká 4, 748 01 Hlučín, Czech Republic

Jiří Neminář studied history at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague and at the Freie Universität Berlin. He also attended a secondary school teaching program. He deals with the issue of the Czechoslovak resistance abroad during the Second World War and the history of the Hlučín region. In the long-term and systematically he deals with the issue of forced mobilization and service of the inhabitants of Hlučín Region and other Czechoslovaks in the German armed forces during the Second World War. To this topic he also devoted his qualification works (see bellow). Another professional interest he focuses on the teaching of history, didactics and the concepts of museums. Among others, he is a co-author of the publications Who are the people in the Hlučín Region, Hlučín 2016 (in Czech, with Jiří Jung) and Hlučín in the Changes of Time, Hlučín 2017 (in Czech, with Metoděj Chrástecký).

Work and research experience

2007: co-operation on the TV document Sloužil jsem ve wehrmachtu [I served with Wehrmacht]
2010– 2014: filming witnesses for the Museum of the Hlučín Region
2013: co-author of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Hlučín Region
2015: participation at the Jugendbegegnung des Deutschen Bundestages
2015– present: Museum of the Hlučín Region, museum pedagog

Previous outcomes related to the project

Češi ve wehrmachtu? [Czechs in the Wehrmacht?] In: J. Karpíšek – Z. Sturz – M. Bláhová (edd.): České, slovenské a československé dějiny 20. století XI. [Czech, Slovak and Czechoslovak History in the 20^th Century], Hradec Králové, Gaudeamus 2017, pp. 259–270.
Přijímání do armády jako proces přidělování identity? Výslechy a prověřování německých zajatců československého původu [Recruitment to the army as a process of assigning identity? Interrogation and vetting of German POWs of Czechoslovak origin]. In: Historie – Otázky – Problémy [History – Questions – Problems], 2016, No. 1, pp. 102–119.
Přijímání vojáků wehrmachtu do československé zahraniční armády na Západě během 2. světové války [Recruiting of German Soldiers for the Czechoslovak army-in-exile in the West during the Second World War], MA thesis, Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Prague 2015.
Obyvatelé Hlučínska v československé zahraniční armádě na Západě [Inhabitants of the Hlučín Region within the Czechoslovak military units in the West], BA thesis, Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Prague 2012.
Dějinám navzdory. Strastiplná cesta Alfreda Pchálka ke kněžství [In spite of history: Alfred Pchalek’s tortuous journey to priesthood]. In: Hlučínsko, 2016, No. 1, pp. 16–21.
Pomníky padlým I. světové války na Hlučínsku [Monuments of WW I fallen soldiers in the Hlučín Region]. In: Hlučínsko, 2014, No. 2, pp. 16–18.