English: Ladislav Šimek (* 1912 - 24 April 1962, Ilava Prison, Slovakia) was a trained rifle maker, during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a member of the National Society, in the early 1950s he worked as head of sales of hunting supplies and weapons in the national company Mototechna. As a result of his business dealings with Bohumil Šíma, he came into closer contact with the anti-communist resistance organisation Black Lion 777. As part of its liquidation and during the subsequent trial, when he was included among its members by state security, he was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia (November 1989), Ladislav Šimek was (posthumously) partially rehabilitated.