* recorded in the personal card:
Wife of Leopold Bata. She was born in Zlín and came from a respectable bourgeois family. She graduated from business school in Vienna. When she married Leopold Bata in 1911, she stayed at home. During the war, when Leopold was at the front, she returned to the company again. She interrupted her work upon his return, when she began to care for him. After his death, she returned to work permanently. She never remarried, their marriage was childless. In 1924, she started working at the Social Department. Over the years, she worked her way up to one of the most respected positions, helping newly arrived co-workers socialize in the rapidly growing city. She managed the care of orphans and the elderly, kept records of widows and the poor who needed care. She was the initiator of food collections, support of the poor and education of the population on the topic of hygiene and healthy living. She was dismissed on 14 March 1946 based on the resolution of the Office for Labour Protection.
Official portrait, 1922 (SOkA Zlín, o č. 14247, p. č. 4)
