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«b»JUDr Ferdinand TONDER«/b» - známý pražský advokát.

Ferdinand — Miloslava ZÁTKOVÁ-TONDEROVÁ, - painter. Miloslava (dcera od Vlastimil Rostislav ZÁTKA a Karla Zdenka Františka HAVLÍČKOVÁ-ZÁTKOVÁ, - pianistka) se narodil(a) 1 Únor 1884, Březí, Czech Rep.; zemřel(a) 2 Duben 1969, Praha, Czech Rep.. [Schéma rodiny]

Jiné události:

• Military service - World War 2: 1940, Duxford, UK; Joined RAF - Fighter pilot, RAF squadron 312

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«b»OBITUARY:«tab»Ivo Tonder (1919-1995)
«/b»by Karel Kyncl
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The life-story of Ivo Tonder is typical of that of thousands of citizens in former Czechoslovakia who were in their twenties just before the outbreak of the Second World War; those who fled their country - betrayed in Munich in 1938 and occupied by the Nazis in 1939 - in order to fight abroad for its freedom. An RAF veteran and a Major- General (retired) of the Czech Air Force, he was born in Prague and died in London. He had been condemned to death by the Germans 50 years ago; he had been imprisoned after the war by his fellow countrymen, but had escaped. He lived the last 45 years of his life in Britain, and was 82 when he died.
Tonder volunteered first for the Czechoslovak army corps created in the West and in 1940 became a member of RAF 312 (Fighter) Squadron. On 3 June 1942, he was shot down during an operational flight over occupied France, captured and escorted to an "escape-proof" prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft 3, in the heart of a pine forest at Sagan, in German Silesia.
Two months and one week before the invasion of Normandy, Tonder was among the 76 British prisoners of war who succeeded in a spectacular escape from the camp during one night, via a system of underground tunnels dug secretly over the previous year. This "Operation Escape 200" was in itself a significant military operation: it diverted from the Front an entire German SS Panzer Division, up to 700,000 troops and indirectly some 4 million Germans in the subsequent manhunt.
Tonder made his way to occupied Czechoslovakia but there he was recaptured by the Gestapo and, on 8 January 1945, sentenced to death. The sentence was not carried out only because of the chaos preceding the imminent Nazi defeat and because the prison he was held in was liberated.
Flt Lt Tonder rejoined the RAF, and in October 1945 he was able to return home and, at long last, to start to piece together his shattered life. It seemed to be the perfect happy end.
But it was not to be. In the eyes of the new Communist rulers in post- war Czechoslovakia, Ivo Tonder had fought the Nazis from the wrong geographic direction, i.e. from the capitalist West. This "mistake" was enough to degrade all the veteran members of the Western part of the Czechoslovak armed forces from the rank of freedom fighters to the rank of potential imperialist spies. They were thrown out of the army, unable to find decent jobs, interrogated and persecuted by the secret police, and a number of them imprisoned.
On 31 May 1948, Tonder attempted to leave the country again, but was arrested on the border and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. In December 1949, however, he was able to stage a one-man version of the "Operation Escape 200" from Stalag Luft 3. He escaped from a Communist prison and in 1950 arrived in Britain. Odděleně, samostatně a později také jeho manželka Jiřina - bez dětí.
Jejich neuvěřitelným útrapám nebylo konce při několikaletém čekání na vydání jejich malých dětí, které byly drženy komunisty v Československu. Toto vydání trvalo několit let.
It took another 39 years and the collapse of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia before Ivo, the "criminal", was officially rehabilitated and proclaimed a decent Czech citizen. It took the communist regime collaps (1989).
A long-time president of the Free Czechoslovakia Air Force Association based in London, Ivo Tonder was promoted to the rank of Air Force colonel in 1991 and - only three weeks ago - Major-General (retired).
He was due to receive his General's decree from the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, yesterday, during a solemn ceremony at Prague Castle.
But in April Tonder became seriously ill and was hospitalised; it was out of the question for him to travel. It seemed improbable at first that the Czech authorities could be persuaded to change the rules and send the decree signed by the President to London "prematurely". However, the Military Attach at the Czech embassy in London fought a brave battle with Prague red tape and won: Ivo Tonder was presented with the document in his hospital room by the Czech ambassador on Saturday 29 April.
Five days later he was dead.


«u»«b»LAST FLIGHT«/u»«/b» - Ivo Tonder
«i»F/Lt Ivo Tonder recalls the day he was shot down and became a prisoner of war :«/i»
https://fcafa.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/ivo-tonder-last-flight/

"The 3rd of June 1942 was a beautiful sunny day. The Czech wing was flying from Warmwell to give top cover to several bombers on their way to bomb something in Cherbourg.
310 Sqn, led by W/Cmdr Vašátko, was leading the formation with 312 Sqn port and 313 Sqn starboard.
I was leading white section of 312 sq on the port of the leading section and F/Lt Dvořák the green section on starboard. The squadron was led by S/Ldr Cermák.
When the bombers crossed the French coast, the wing started the turn for the homerun. We were in a very loose formation as top cover always was. Therefore the squadrons on the wings had to change from port to starboard and vice versa. The same had to be done in each squadron, each section and each pair. You can imagine, that there was a lot of action in the air as 36 aircraft were regrouping. All pilots watching out to avoid collisions.
It was a perfect moment for the Fw-190's to attack there was no warning on R/T and they came from the sun which at that moment was at 50K. We were taken completely by surprise.
The first 190 I spotted passed me on the starboard coming down from the sun at considerable speed. I just had time to scream my warning "Break away port", turn on my back and went down. As I did that I saw another 190 which overtook me and started to climb. I followed and was on his tail, I fired a short burst without results. Then I got him perfectly in my sights but was losing speed. Never-the-less I gave him a very long burst. Unfortunately the recoil of my canons slowed me down so much that my Spit went into a spin.
I made a few turns and straightened out into the company of four 190s. They were completely unprepared for my recovery, which ended about 60 yards behind the tail of the leader of the second pair. My first burst sent him down in smoke. His No.2 followed him down. The remaining two started a dog fight which lasted about four to five minutes. By then I was out of ammunition but they must also have exhausted theirs as they turned for home. I was left alone trying to control my nerves, circling and looking for friend or foe. There was nothing around ! I could still see the coast of France and I turned for home, climbing slightly to recover some height. I was checking my plane for damage but could see none.
I continued on my way home wondering where everybody was. Suddenly, I heard two loud bangs, it sounded very much like my own canons. Thinking that I must have overlooked somebody, I turned to see behind my tail, but there was nothing - when I turned back, my cockpit was full of fire. I always dreaded fire; In a split second I undid my harness, opened the cockpit and the door and was out before I started to think.
Going down head first I could see my aircraft going straight, no smoke, no fire, the biggest shock in my life. I just could not believe it. Also, there was nobody around as far as I could see. This stayed engraved in my memory day and night for many months. I was trying to figure out what happened. Eventually I came to the conclusion that what happened must have been the explosion of the two wireless sets, which could be destroyed by pressing a button in case of a landing in enemy territory.
Unfortunately, my theory was shattered only last year by my best friend, the chief engineering officer of our squadron, he said that it was not possible and what must have happened was that I was hit by a high explosive shell directly in the cockpit. He did not explain why I was not touched or at least my uniform pierced by the hundreds of splinters that must have been flying around. So here I am back with the mystery.
But I had better go on with my journey down on my parachute.
I landed in the drink, blew up my dinghy without trouble, got out my compass and the paddles and started on my journey home. I was not very worried as I thought I must be close to half way between the Isle of Wight and Normandy and sooner or later some British aircraft will spot me and send rescue.
It happened almost as I expected, with only a minor variation - it was not a British but a German aircraft. First two FWs 190 and after some time a seaplane. It landed 60 to 80 yards from me, a door opened and down the steps out onto the float came an airman armed with a boathook.
I was not very keen to becoming a PoW and foolishly decided to capture his plane. I got my gun out of my boots; the canvas paddles strapped to my arms hid them completely and I was slowly approaching my unsuspecting victim. As he started to reach for the dinghy with his boathook another man stepped out of the door, aiming at me with a Tommy gun. I was all the time a little worried whether my gun would fire properly, having been submerged in water, so I decided not to take the risk.
I opened my hands and my guns went down to the bottom of the channel. So this is how I finished as «u»PoW «/u».
Dvořák was shot down sometime during the first attack. His tail was shot off and he had a hard time to get out of the uncontrollable aircraft. He eventually succeeded but on opening his parachute he got entangled in the cord and his arm was broken. He was transferred to a hospital and arrived at Sagan much later.
He did not get out after the communists took over in Czechoslovakia, was very badly treated and died in the seventies."
«i»Both Tonder and Dvořák participated in 'The Great Escape' from Sagan on the night of 23/24 March 1944 where 76 Allied RAF officers escaped from Stalag Luft III. Of the escapers, Three managed to successfully reach neutral countries; two to Sweden and one to Spain. Of the 73 who were recaptured 50 were murdered by the Gestapo; Tonder and Dvořák were one of the lucky 23. After their recapture, both airmen were sent to Pankrac prison, Prague where they were tried, along with other Czechoslovak RAF PoW's for being traitors to the Third Reich and received death sentences. The intervention of the International Red Cross resulted in the Germans agreeing that the sentences being suspended until after the war.«/i»



Military service - World War 2:
"These men went to Britain to fight because they couldn't stomach allowing their country to go to the dogs," said movie director Sverak. He sees his movie creation, "The Dark-Blue World ", as a chance to "celebrate the country's last heroes".
These include people like «u»«b»Ivo Tonder«/u»«/b». When Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in 1939, Tonder made his way via Hungary and Turkey to Beirut, where he joined the French Foreign Legion. Later, via France and Spain, he arrived in England, joining the second Czech squadron, number 312, based at Duxford, which was equipped with Hurricanes and later Spitfires. He took part in the last days of the Battle of Britain before being shot down in a dogfight over the channel. His capture by a German float plane led to his imprisonment in Silesia. There he became the main tunneller in what was later immortalised as the " Great Escape ". He was soon caught and sent to Colditz, which was liberated before the death sentence against him could be carried out.

Ivo — Jiřina ASCHEROVÁ-TONDER. Jiřina (dcera od Gustav ASCHER a Anna ASCHER) se narodil(a) 1919; zemřel(a) 2009, Henley, Oxfordshire, UK. [Schéma rodiny]

Poznámky:

«u»«b»TONDER Hanno
«/b»«/u»
«u»«/u» «tab»(This section was taken from it) :
«b»Hanno Tonder«/b» byl vskutku výjimečným zjevem mezi českými golfisty. V období předválečného rozkvětu českého golfu vyhrál mezinárodní titul mistra republiky v letech 1933 a 1938, vždy proti kvalitní domácí i zahraniční konkurenci. V roce 1936 zazářil v postolympijské Velké soutěži národů v Baden Badenu mezi nejlepšími amatérskými hráči Evropy.
Odtržení Sudet v roce 1938 a pozdější válka násilně přerušily nadějný předválečný rozvoj československého golfu. Odtržena byla tři západočeská golfová hřiště, oddělilo se slovenské hřiště v Piešťanech a během války zanikla hřiště u Třemšína a po smrti barona Ringhoffera v roce 1940 i ve Volešovicích. Protektorátnímu českému golfu zůstala pouze hřiště v Klánovicích a na Líšnici. V tomto období opět mezi českými golfisty kraloval líšnický «b»Hanno Tonder«/b». Vyhrál protektorátní mistrovství Čech a Moravy v letech 1939, 1941, 1942 a 1943. Pak se již válečná mistrovství nehrála. V roce 1941 získala mistrovský titul mezi ženami členka GKL Anna Strobachová. Po smrti předsedy Českomoravského golfového svazu barona Ringhoffera vedl během války tento svaz člen GKL Zdeněk Klan.
Tvrdou ránu zasadila golfistům tzv. heydrichiáda. V první vlně jejích represivních poprav skončil svůj život prezident GKL, JUDr. Ludvík Vaněk, který prezidentskou funkci vykonával od roku 1930. Tuto ztrátu prožívalo semknuté kamarádské prostředí GKL velmi bolestně. Ke konci války byly uzavřeny Klánovice a český golf přežíval několik měsíců již jen na Líšnici.
Poválečná doba přivedla do klubu řadu nových mladých členů a s nimi i nový elán. Společenské prostředí klubu a sportovní aktivity významně ožily. V čele klubu nahradil popraveného Ludvíka Vaňka další zakládající člen JUDr. Prokop Sedlák. Tomu byl přiznán titul primátor, protože titul prezident byl i posmrtně ponechán Ludvíku Vaňkovi. Přišel však únor roku 1948 se svým komunistickým pučem a GKL opět o své mladé hráče přišel. Většina z nich totiž odešla do zahraničí.
Ve čtyřletém období 1947 až 1950 vyhrál líšnický Hanno Tonder třikrát mistrovský titul, pouze v roce 1949 skončil druhý za vycházející golfovou hvězdou Miroslavem Vostárkem. V roce 1950 však porážku Vostárkovi oplatil a ve finále hraném na 36 jamek jej porazil na 31 jamce 6/5. Krátce nato byl «b»Hanno Tonder«/b» uvězněn v souvislosti s útěkem za hranice jeho bratra Ivy, válečného pilota, a jeho ženy Jiřiny, majorky československého letectva ve Velké Britanii. Odsouzen byl na 3,5 roku do vězení a svůj trest vykonával v lágru Vojna v uranových dolech na Příbramsku.Jeho majetek propadl státu, výkon právnického povolání mu byl zakázán a pracoval jako závozník.
V roce 1955 ukončil svůj pohnutý život sebevraždou. Zemřel 21.2.1955 v Praze, podle rodinných udajů nikoli tak z důvodů politické persekuce, ale pro ztrátu lásky své manželky.

Úmrtí:
suicide - sebevražda

Hanno — Olga (Saša) HOCHMANOVÁ-TONDEROVÁ-NEUMANNOVÁ, - soudní tlumočnice. Olga se narodil(a) 23 Říjen 1923; zemřel(a) 8 Červen 1985. [Schéma rodiny]

Ivan byl(a) sezdán(a) s Caroline N. TONDER 25 Leden 1969. Caroline se narodil(a) 18 Listopad 1946. [Schéma rodiny]

Jiné události:

• Rozvod: 28 Březen 1990, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Note: 2009, Henley, UK; Mother Jiřina obituary

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Note:
The obituary in 2009 for mother Ji ina:
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=614500

Petra byl(a) sezdán(a) s Mark RONAN 11 Srpen 1978, Henley-on-Thames, UK; rozvod 28 Březen 1990. Mark se narodil(a) 3 Duben 1947, London, England. [Schéma rodiny]

Michaela — Ivan BLAŽEK. [Schéma rodiny]

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«b»MUDr Alexandra SKLENKOVÁ«/b» - Lékařka oftalmolog v Kladně. Měla soukromou ordinaci. a prodala ji v r. 2015. Nyní (2017) je tam zaměstnanec na menší úvazek.

Alexandra — Ing. Jiří SKLENKA. Jiří se narodil(a) 20 Duben 1946; zemřel(a) 1994. [Schéma rodiny]

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Hannah Tonder started «b»«i»Tonder & Tonder«/b»«/i» in 2001.
After graduating in English and Media Hannah was a journalist for 7 years before starting her own company following in a tradition of textiles and manufacturing in her family.
Hannah's grandfather Ivo founded the company Ivo Prints soon after arriving from Czechoslovakia, and her parents ran their own commission printing and manufacturing company Artraco for 25 years as well as selling under their own brand Cally & Co.
Specialising in bedlinen, Hannah's one colour designs have now been transferred onto tablelinen and accessories. All of the textiles are made in England, and she has just put her designs onto her first range of ceramics made in Stoke-on-Trent in collaboration with the designer Polly George.
Tonder & Tonder is run from converted barns in South Oxfordshire.
«b»The Long Barn, Bryants Farm, Dunsden RG4 9PB«/b»
«b»Telephone: 0118 9463 704«/b»
«b»Email: «u»sales@tonderandtonder.com«/b»«/u»

Sophy byl(a) sezdán(a) s Thomas BERGIN 3 Srpen 2005, Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK. Thomas se narodil(a) Kildare, Ireland. [Schéma rodiny]

Piers — Abigail HAYHOE. [Schéma rodiny]

Alexandra byl(a) sezdán(a) s Mirek DLOUHÝ, - IT director 4 Červenec 1991, Praha, Czech Rep.. Mirek se narodil(a) 2 Listopad 1965, Praha, Czech Rep.. [Schéma rodiny]

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5 children

Petr — Ing. Hana CAKLOVÁ-SKLENKOVÁ. Hana se narodil(a) 28 Leden 1973, Praha, Czech Rep.. [Schéma rodiny]

Jan — Gabriela KOCÍKOVÁ. [Schéma rodiny]