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Czech nobility in the first third of the 20th century
Sogel, David ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Žáková, Michaela (referee)
The diploma thesis Czech Nobility in the First Third of the 20th Century analyses the significance of the nobility living in Bohemia after the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918. The focus is put on five of the noble families, specifically Auersperg, Buquoy, Czernin, Metternich-Winneburg and Schaumburg-Lippe, their lives, and their strategies in the newly formed republic. The aim of the thesis is to analyse their reactions to the change of the establishment, the ongoing land reform, the abolition of the aristocratic titles and their use leading to the end of their privileged social status as well as the joint of the individual and collective aspects of the nobility. From the methodological point of view, the thesis is based on the concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Fernand Braudel, specifically the concept of habitus, capital, social fields, longue durée and the so-called new nobility. The introductory parts of the thesis, the historical context, sources, and the methodological approaches, aim to demonstrate the suitability of the use of these concepts for the study of nobility. The following part, empirical part of the thesis, beginning by the fifth chapter, studies the individual fields of nobility, with the first area being the political field. The accent is put on the attitude of the studied...
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Coexistence of Czech and German employees of the Krkonošké papírny in Hostinné between 1932-1949
Sogel, David ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Mrňka, Jaromír (referee)
The bachelor thesis Coexistence of Czech and German employees of the Krkonošké papírny in Hostinné between 1932-1949 deals with the development of the company Eichmann a spol. and its nationalized successor, company Krkonošské papírny. It focuses not only on the period mentioned in the title of the thesis but also it tries more or less to capture the whole almost 100-year long phase, during which the company was owned by the Eichmann family. A part of this thesis is also a characterization of the company operations up to the beginning of 1949, only a few years after the nationalization of the company, before the original conglomerate was divided definitively. The topic that connects each and every chapter is the interest in the participants' influence on the functioning and orientation of the company. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part describes the history of the company closely connected with its owners from the 19th century until their displacement from Czechoslovakia after 1945. The second part describes the company operations from the individual employees' point of view, with the intention to reveal the changes of the inner structure of the company, primarily on the basis of medical reports between 1939-1945, the World War II period. Some of the cases are explicitly...
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