---
title: "Rudolf Vévoda"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Rudolf Vévoda"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Max van der Stoel","Paměť národa (Memory of Nations)","Jan Patočka"]
seek_code_commit: "290e6f6"
---


Czech historian who conducted a 1996 recorded interview with former Dutch
Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel, decades after van der Stoel's 1977
Prague meeting with Jan Patočka.

Matters to this vault as the named interviewer behind its single most
consequential unresolved source: the archive Paměť národa received his
tape only in 2024 and states it is too degraded to publish beyond a few
already-quoted passages — the specific still-unheard document at the
center of [[question-verify-van-der-stoel-patocka-meeting-date]].

## References

- [[claim-pametnaroda-1996-van-der-stoel-tape-too-degraded-to-publish]]