Education
Upon returning to his home country he graduated from the University of Technology, receiving an Master of Arts (Ing) in Aeronautic Engineering.
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Ing. Residence: United States of America, 1948–1962. Head of department of Czechoslovakian Civilian Airways (1929-1938 and also 1945-1947). Vicepresident of International Civil Aviation Organization and FAI. After finishing secondary school in Tábor he began studying at the Imperial-Royal Technical University (now ČVUT) in Prague.
In 1914, during the 1st World War, he was sent to Eastern Front and 1915 Bervida was taken prisoner by Russians, and later as a private of the Czechoslovak Legion he took part in a march to the United States via Vladivostok.
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In 1927-1929 he worked at the Public Works Ministry in Prague, where he became Head of the Aviation Department in 1929. By some sources short time before the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Army of the Nazi Germany in 1938, President Edvard Beneš promoted him to Army General in Reserve.
There is not any remark in Czechoslovakian military archives about lieutenant The Nazi Occupation 1939–1945
He taught at a secondary school specializing in engineering.
Later he was arrested and interrogated.
Because he collaborated with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London, he was sentenced to death. He was saved by the end of World World War II in May 1945. Post-war
In 1945-1947, Bervida became Department Head at the Ministry of Transport (Civilian Airways) and Czechoslovak Airlines (ČSociété Anonyme) Director.
In 1946 was Bervida elected Vice-president of the FAI and one year later 1947 was he elected Vice=president to the International Civil Aviation Organization (International Civil Aviation Organization).
He was unjustly charged in a court case brought against him, but the case was dropped after the intervention of President Edvard Beneš. During Communist takeover in 1948 he was in France, where applied for citizenship.
In Paris he was involved with Czechoslovak exile authorities (Council of Free Czechoslovakia). Shortly thereafter he emigrated to the United States, where he worked with the International Civil Aviation Organization in New York and in Montreal.
Membership
Member of ICAN and the Council of Free Czechoslovakia. During the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia from 1939 to 1945, Bervida, as a former member of Czechoslovak Legion, was fired in 1939 and became a teacher.
