Harry Pollak , born Jindřich Pollak (24 February 1923 – 28 February 2014), was a Czech mechanical engineer and economist of Jewish origin. He left then-Czechoslovakia at 25 and spent most of his life in England, eventually becoming a financial consultant. He was part of the team that helped rescue British car maker Aston Martin from bankruptcy . He worked for IBM , Krupp , and Dunlop . The companies he financially saved also included a Swiss paper mill, a number of heavy manufacturers, and the largest European producer of printed circuit boards.
7-733: Harry Pollak was born on 24 February 1923 in Dvůr Semtín , Czechoslovakia . He was born as the only child to a family of landowners. He was able to escape the Holocaust only because his parents sent him to study at a lyceum in Nîmes in 1938. When he was 17, he joined the allied forces in France. He fought against the Nazis during World War II , and was one of the Czech soldiers who laid siege to
14-745: A court decision, was permanently confiscated. In 1949, he and his wife Jarmila managed to escape over the Bohemian Forest into West Germany . Later, they continued on to Great Britain, where they received asylum and Harry finished his studies. They had a son named René Thomas. In 2003, he received a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Economics in Prague. In 2016, the Centre for Restructuring and Insolvency at
21-584: Is from 1352. The I/3 road (part of the European route E55 ), which replaces the unfinished section of the D3 motorway from Prague to Tábor, passes through the municipality. Olbramovice is located on the important railway line Prague– Tábor , which further continues to České Budějovice or to České Velenice and Vienna . The main landmark of Olbramovice is the Church of All Saints. It has Romanesque origins from
28-517: Is located about 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Benešov . It lies on the border of the Benešov Uplands and Vlašim Uplands . The highest point is at 620 m (2,030 ft) above sea level. The territory is rich in minor streams and fishponds. The largest and most significant pond is Podhrázský. Together with its surroundings it is protected as a nature reserve. It is an important ornithological site. The first written mention of Olbramovice
35-858: The 2000s three books were published in the Czech Republic: Olbramovice (Bene%C5%A1ov District) Olbramovice is a municipality and village in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic . It has about 1,400 inhabitants. The central village is made up of two administrative parts: Olbramovice Městečko and Olbramovice Ves. The villages and hamlets of Babice, Dvůr Semtín, Kochnov, Křešice, Mokřany, Podolí, Radotín, Semtín, Semtínek, Slavkov, Tomice II, Veselka and Zahradnice are also administrative parts of Olbramovice. Olbramovice
42-963: The German-held city of Dunkirk in September 1944. He returned to Czechoslovakia with the Western Allies in May 1945. After the war, he was proclaimed German, and a Nazi collaborator , and the authorities in Votice withheld his family farmland for three years. Before the Communist Coup in 1948 , he was denied his master's degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague . Following the Communist Coup, his inherited property, which had been returned to him by
49-764: The University of Economics was named after Pollak, acknowledging his achievements in restructuring businesses. For most of his career, Pollak worked as a crisis manager in various countries. Apart from the UK, he was employed in Germany, Italy, and the United States, and he finally settled in Netstal in Switzerland, where he died on 28 February 2014 at the age of 91. He is buried in Votice near his birthplace. In
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