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Vladimír Clementis

Vladimír Clementis
Czechoslovakia Communism Czechoslovakia Slovakia 1902–1952 ✕ Executed

Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952

As deputy foreign minister, he backed rejection of the Marshall Plan; after the 1948 coup he became foreign minister and organized Czechoslovak air support for Israel. Forced out and arrested in 1950, he was executed after the 1952 Slánský trial.

A lawyer from Tisovec in Slovakia, he was a left-wing intellectual who co-edited Dav, a cultural and political journal of great influence among interwar Slovak intellectuals. He sat as a Communist deputy. He became foreign minister after Jan Masaryk’s death in March 1948 and served until 1950. Accused of “Titoism” and “national deviation”, he was sentenced to death at the Slánský trial of 1952 and executed on 3 December; he was later rehabilitated.

Career timeline
  • 1925Joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, practised law, and organized communist cells in Slovakia.
  • 1935Became a Communist Party deputy in the National Assembly.
  • 1945Became state secretary for foreign affairs.
  • 1948–1950Served as foreign minister, helped organize the coup, and arranged air support for Israel.
  • 1950Was forced to resign amid accusations of deviationism and then arrested.
  • 1952Was convicted in the Slánský trial and hanged.
  • 1963Was rehabilitated posthumously.