Hans Ledwinka honorary citizen of Koprivnice

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Hans Ledwinka has become an honorary citizen of Koprivnice.  Though his role during WWII was doubted. leading to the imprisonment of six years due to assumed collaboration, he was rehabilitated in 1992 by the Czech High Court.  Still his role was controversial among “old” politicians. But thanks to the diligence of the Tatra club of Koprivnice and its president Alena Cipova and former Tatra museum director Karel Rosenkranz, the city council of Koprivnice agreed and in september 2018 it became a fate.

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