Jozef Lenárt
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Jozef Lenárt (3 April 1923 in Liptovská Porúbka, Slovakia – 11 February 2004 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak politician.
He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company. He became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and of the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS).
He was a member of the federal parliament (whose name changed several times) from 1960 to 1990, and of the Slovak National Council from 1962 to 1963 and from 1971 to (?)1990. He served as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia between 1963 and 1968.
Although being a Slovak, he became a Czech citizen after the country had split in 1993.
On the basis of insufficient evidence, on 23 September 2002 Lenárt was acquitted of treason charges (along with his co-defendant Miloš Jakeš), related to his handling (or lack thereof) of the Prague Spring events in 1968. He was accused of attending a meeting at the Soviet embassy in Prague on the day after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, planning to establish a new workers and farmers' government.
Jozef Lenárt was one of the most resilient figures in Czechoslovakia's communist hierarchy, occupying one post or another in the leadership for no less than a quarter of the century. That achievement was all the more remarkable because his career at the top straddled a succession of regimes and several abrupt changes in policy.
[edit] Major functions
- 1950 – 1953, 1957 – 1966, and 1970 – (?)1990: Member of the KSS
- 1956 – 1958: Leading Secretary of the Regional Committee of the KSS
- 1958 – 1962: Secretary of the Central Committee of the KSS
- 1958 – (?)1990: Member of the Central Committee of the KSČ
- 1962 – 1963: Chairman of the Slovak National Council
- 1963 – 1968: Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
- 1968 – 1970: Secretary of the Central Committee of the KSČ
- 1970 – 1987: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the KSS
- 1970 – (?)1990: Member of the Presidium of the KSČ
- 1971 – (?)1990: Chairman of the Central Committee of the National Front of the Slovak Socialist Republic, and Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the National Front of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
[edit] See also
| Preceded by: Viliam Široký |
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1963–1968 |
Succeeded by: Oldrich Černík |
| Preceded by: Antonín Novotný |
President of Czechoslovakia (acting) 1968 |
Succeeded by: Ludvík Svoboda |
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