Red Villa - Emil Kolben - Electrical engineer and entrepreneur

Emil Kolben was a pioneering electrical engineer and industrialist - influenced by leading personalities such as Edison and Tesla - and co-founder of one of the most important Czechoslovakian industrial conglomerates - ČKD. Despite his visionary achievements and public recognition, he fell victim to National Socialist persecution in June 1942 and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 3, 1943.

Since 2022, the “Červená vila” has belonged to the city of Prague 10..