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21 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The philosopher-president who organized the Czechoslovak Legion from exile and signed the Penza Agreement with the Bolsheviks Political and party leadership 1850–1937
Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939 Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1874–1945
Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1884–1948
Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953 Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1957
Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1975
Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia Military command · Czechoslovakia 1886–1930
Jan Garrigue Masaryk Jan Garrigue Masaryk The non-Communist foreign minister who lent Gottwald's government legitimacy, found dead under Černín Palace window two weeks after the coup Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1886–1948
Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1891–1976
Radola Gajda Radola Gajda A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics Military command · Czechoslovakia 1892–1948
Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1892–1955
Hubert Ripka Hubert Ripka Postwar foreign trade minister who resigned in February 1948 and went back into exile Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia 1895–1958
Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1896–1953
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1902–1952
Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1908–1973
Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1911–1974
Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization' Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1913–1991
Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1913–1993
Viliam Šalgovič Viliam Šalgovič The deputy interior minister who arrested Dubček and handed him to the Soviets Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1919–1990
Ota Šik Ota Šik Czechoslovak economist who designed a 'third way' between plan and market Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia 1919–2004
Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1924–2023
Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1926–1987