PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kolářová, Ivana
AU  - Kolář, Ondřej
TI  - The Married Life of the Czechoslovak Gendarmerie
DP  - 2020 Dec 11
TA  - Historica Olomucensia
PG  - 139--154
VI  - 59
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/ho.2020.027
IS  - 18039561
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.