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He was a pistol shooting champion of the Czechoslovak Army (widely known is his personal motto in time of World War II: ""I believe in God and in my pistols"), and commanded the Artillery battery in Olomouc with the rank of Staff Captain during the first Czechoslovak Republic. Demobilised after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he worked as a clerk at Labour Office in Kolín.