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Negotiating the Danube- Oder-Elbe Canal in a Troubled Twentieth Century Janác, J European coasts of Bohemia : negotiating the Danube- Oder-Elbe Canal in a troubled twentieth century Janác, J. DOI: 10.6100/IR748489 Published: 01/01/2012 Document Version Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication: • A submitted manuscript is the author's version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website. • The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review. • The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Janac, J. (2012). European coasts of Bohemia : negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a troubled twentieth century Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press DOI: 10.6100/IR748489 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 06. Nov. 2017 Introduction 1 European Coasts of Bohemia 2 European Coasts of Bohemia Introduction 3 European Coasts of Bohemia Negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a Troubled Twentieth Century PRoeFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr.ir. C.J. van Duijn, voor een commissie aangewezen door het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op maandag 10 december 2012 om 16.00 uur door Jiří Janáč geboren te Jilemnice, Tjechië 4 European Coasts of Bohemia Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: prof.dr. J.W. Schot en prof.dr.habil. L. Klusáková Copromotor: dr.ir. E.B.A. van der Vleuten This publication is made possible by: Eindhoven University of Technology, Foundation for the History of Technology and the Unger – Van Brero Fund. ISBN 978 90 8964 501 2 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 812 8 e-ISBN 978 90 4851 813 5 (e-pub) © 2012, Jiří Janáč No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Design and typesetting: Ellen Bouma, Alkmaar, the Netherlands Cover image: Photo used on the cover of the leaflet published by the Ostrava min- ing company in 1966 to promote the construction of the canal. Source: Ostrava hledá přístup k moři (Ostrava Seeks Access to Sea, 1966, NAČR, FMZO, odd. 20, b. 65). Amsterdam University Press, Herengracht 221, NL-1016 BG Amsterdam www.aup.nl Introduction 5 Acknowledgements Let me start with an anecdote. Two engineers meet at a Comecon expert group conference somewhere in Eastern Europe. One has a weekend house close by the conference venue, and after the meeting, invites his foreign colleague back for dinner. When they arrive, the guest is overwhelmed by the luxury of the place and asks his host whether engineers are so well paid in this country. The response is clear: “No, they are not, but the one-way bridge we came over has 4 lanes on paper!” In a way, the same applies to this book. There is no canal connecting the Danube and the Oder, yet we now have a dissertation. This does not mean I embezzled any funds. To achieve my own goals, however, I have made use of the work done by generations of engineers, some of whom even agreed to meet and provide me with their deep insights into the problems. Here I would like to sin- cerely thank Jaroslav Kubec, Václav Plecháč and Evžen Polenka. Coming back to the bridge metaphor, I must say that the route from research project to book was by no means straightforward in my case. Therefore, I would like to express my gratitude to those who kept me on the right track and did not let me settle for a one-way footbridge. In particular I have in mind my supervi- sors, Luďa Klusáková and Johan Schot. Their trust and encouragement, as well as words of advice on various matters related to writing and (not only) academic life, kept me going whenever I started to lose faith in this project. I am indebted to colleagues involved in the PhD Program, The Hidden Integration in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe which was launched by the Foundation for the History of Technology in 2006. We went through the thick and thin of researching and writing with other students on the scheme, Ivaylo Christov, Emilia Karaboeva and Elitsa Stoilova. We all set out on this voyage to- gether, and throughout the process they provided me with endless support, inspi- ration and also understanding in my moments of weakness. For many valuable comments on earlier versions of individual chapters and on general articulation of the idea for the book, my thanks go to members of the Program’s Scientific Committee, Dobrinka Parusheva and Ivan Tchalakov. Besides the Bulgarian part of the committee, the same is true for the Dutch part. Erik van der Vleuten’s en- lightening comments helped me clarify my arguments when I found it difficult to articulate my thoughts, and Ruth Oldenziel guided me patiently through the 6 European Coasts of Bohemia intricacies of turning the manuscript into a book. In this respect, my thanks also go to Val Kidd for speedy editing. James Morrison and Paul Cooper helped me with the language in the earlier stages of writing. Also, I am grateful to the people at the Foundation for the History of Technology, especially to Jan Korsten and Sonja Beekers. The anecdote continues by returning to a session with the same Comecon ex- pert group some years later, this time the two engineers have swapped roles. The dinner is taking place in an even bigger dacha. How have you managed to af- ford this? asks the visitor. Did you notice the bridge we crossed? There was no bridge… Similar to the joke, writing this book has been stretched between two places - Prague and Eindhoven. For the welcome and support offered during my stay in Eindhoven, I would like to thank everyone at Eindhoven University of Technology, especially Alec Badenoch, Vincent Lagendijk and others involved in the History of Technology course. In Prague I owe a great deal to my colleagues in the department, most notably Karel Kubiš. I am truly grateful to my parents, sister and friends for their support. At some point in my studies I turned for help to well-known historians Ivan Jakubec, Andreas Kunz and Cornelis Disco, who all kindly answered my questions and willingly shared their expertise. The same is true for archivists Naďa Urbánková, Bohumír Brom and Miroslav Kunt. During my research for this book I enjoyed the hospitality of my dear colleagues Helena Durnová and Frank Schipper. Last but not least, this book owes its very existence to my dear wife Jana, who has always generously tolerated my somewhat eccentric lifestyle, full of night-time writing, conference trips and piles of paper everywhere. Prague. August 15, 2012 Introduction 7 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 5 1 Introduction 9 Infrastructure Historiography 12 Canal as a Laboratory of Europe 20 Sources 24 2 Mittel-Europeanization on Waterways 27 On Mittel-Europeanization 28 Building Mitteleuropa on Waterways before Versailles 35 De-Austrianization: Shaping the Czechoslovak State 45 Mittel-Europeanization beyond the State? 57 Conclusion 80 3 Canal as Artery for Nazi Expansion 85 On Nazification 92 Constructing the Grossraum 101 From Grand Opening to Inauspicious End 111 Conclusion 125 4 Linking the Soviet Volga; not the Rhine! 131 On Sovietization 133 Projecting a Soviet Canal 145 Sovietization “Beyond the State” 158 The Final Plan 171 Conclusion 177 5 Mastering Three Seas 181 On Europeanization 185 Across the Curtain 193 Europeanization of the Canal Design 206 Canalizing Europe 225 Conclusion 232 8 European Coasts of Bohemia 6 Conclusion 235 Annex 1 List of Barge Types 245 Bibliography 247 List of Abbreviations 269 Summary 271 Introduction 9 Chapter 1 Introduction “This (the Danube Oder Elbe canal) is a European affair. It makes no sense as a national project. We cannot afford it; such a project is tens or hundreds of bil- lions of crowns. If the European Union recognizes the project is reasonable and is ready to finance it, then it might be realized”. Thus argued Pavel Drobil, Czech Environment Minister on August 16, 2010. Drobil agitated for a bold decision: Three months earlier, on May 26, 2010, the caretaker government of the Czech Republic, led by Prime Minister Jan Fischer, decided to extend the building ban in the corridor of the proposed route of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal.1 The admin- istration took the last possible opportunity to close the debate that had re-opened several years earlier when the Czech Republic entered the European Union (EU).
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