Born on 6 October 1919 in Albrechtice nad Orlicí into the family of an insurance company employee, founder of the Albrechtice Sokol and director of the amateur theatre.

František Škvára, a gym teacher at the Real Gymnasium in Kostelec nad Orlicí, was the founder of health physical education, which led him to continue his studies in physical education after graduation.

Arrested on 17 November 1939 at Švehl College in Prague - Imprisoned in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Block 53 A - Released on 20 December 1940

On 15 April 1948, thanks to his initiative, the first Kladruby Games were launched, which are still held today - a quarter of a year ahead of a similar event held in England by the later founder of the Paralympic Games, Ludwig Guttmann.

From the very beginning (1960) V. Srdečný tried to get our disabled athletes to participate in the Paralympics - it was only in the 1970s that it succeeded.

He went to the 1980 Games in Arnhem, the Netherlands, as a team leader.

He was at the birth of the International Organisation of Athletes with Disabilities.

In 1964 he joined the Department of Physical Education at the Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové as an assistant professor.

He has been working at Palestra since 1990.

He is a member of the historical group 17 November 1939 in the Czech Union of Freedom Fighters and a member of the International Sachsenhausen Committee.

Every year they participate in the commemorative ceremony on the anniversary of 17 November in front of the Hlávka College building (organized by the Foundation "The Talents of Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka" in cooperation with the Czech Union of Freedom Fighters).

He is a recipient of the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 and the award of Meritorious Fighter against Fascism.

In 2005 he visited the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial and was allowed to visit the archives and museum, where he found lists of university students imprisoned there since 1939. After several years of trying, he managed to obtain copies of these lists - 25 A4 pages and containing names, surnames, dates of birth and Heftling (prison) numbers. He gave copies to five of our organisations.

He is one of the most important authors of study materials (more than three hundred publications), including Physical Education of the Disabled - first published in 1977 in an edition of 2000 copies.