Born 20 August 1892 in Popelín near Dačice. During the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and saw combat on the Russian and Italian fronts; he was captured in the final stages of the war. After the war he became an air force officer. When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia Budín became involved in the resistance movement. In 1944 he evaded arrest by escaping to Slovakia, which was then in the throes of an uprising. From there he travelled to the USSR, where (in October 1944) he was appointed the Commander of the First Czechoslovak Mixed Air Division in the USSR. He returned to his homeland as a Brigadier General. In the early 1950s he retired, and died in Brno on 1 February 1956.
