PT Journal
AU Kolarova, I
   Kolar, O
TI The Married Life of the Czechoslovak Gendarmerie
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 139
EP 154
VL 59
IS 2
DI 10.5507/ho.2020.027
DE Gendarmerie; Czechoslovakia; Police forces; Marriage; Family life
AB Entry into marriage was highly regulated for the gendarmerie by law. Even if a gendarme was permitted to marry, his married life continued to be supervised by his superiors. Occasionally, actual and perceived transgressions against social norms would be criticised by the public, and these cases would then be seen as a threat to the gendarmerie's reputation. A blemished married life often led to the relocation of the gendarme to a new area. Gendarmes, restricted in civil rights by regulations, could realize, however, their business, political or other ambitions through their wives. While marriages between gendarmerie and military families were common in the officer ranks, ordinary gendarmes tended to choose workers or the working-class intelligentsia for a wife.
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