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Petr Zenkl

Petr Zenkl
Czechoslovakia state institutions Counter-revolutionary forces Czechoslovakia Czechia 1884–1975 → Died in exile

National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia

In February 1948 he resigned with non-Communist ministers in an attempt to halt unconstitutional measures by the Communist interior minister. After the coup, he escaped surveillance to the West and led the political exile movement.

Born to a small tradesman in Tábor in Bohemia, he became a teacher and was mayor of Prague from 1937 to 1939. Arrested after the German occupation, he was held in Dachau and Buchenwald until American troops freed him in 1945. As postwar chairman of the National Socialists he was again mayor of Prague and, after leading the second party in 1946, deputy prime minister. In September 1947 he, Masaryk and Drtina received boxes of explosives. He resigned with the other non-Communist ministers in February 1948, escaped surveillance after the coup and chaired the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia from 1949 to 1974.

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  • 1937–1939Mayor of Prague.
  • 1945–1946Returned as mayor of Prague and became chairman of the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party.
  • 1946–1948Deputy prime minister.
  • 1949–1974Chairman of the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia.