English: František Coufal (* 1892-1941) was a professional soldier who fought in World War I on the Russian and Italian fronts, during which he was wounded and captured. His other military activities between the World Wars are connected with South Moravia, Znojmo and Prague. He rose from low command positions and ranks to the rank of lieutenant colonel holding high staff positions. In the 1930s he spent part of his working life as a lecturer at the War School in Prague. During the Protectorate, he was involved in the leadership of the military underground organization Obrana Naroda (ON; Defence of the Nation) in building the structures of its "underground army". (He is characterized by historians as one of the creators of the ON organizational structure.) At the same time, he functioned as a liaison between the ON in Prague and the Moravian Provincial Headquarters of the ON with its center in Brno. In the summer of 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo, interrogated and imprisoned for two months, and finally sentenced to death for his anti-rightist activities under the so-called first martial law and immediately executed. After the end of World War II, he was promoted (in memoriam) to the rank of colonel of the General Staff.