Jan Malypetr
Jan Malypetr(21 December 1873 inKlobuky– 27 September 1947 inSlaný) was aCzechoslovakpolitician.[1]As prime minister during theGreat Depressionhe strong-armed Czechoslovakia into a more rapid economic recovery than elsewhere in Europe.[2]
A member of theAgrarian Party,he was the minister of Interior, and chairman of the Chamber of Deputies from 17 December 1925 to 29 October 1932 and again from 5 November 1935 to 1939.
Malypetr served three terms as prime minister of Czechoslovakia:
- 29 October 1932 – 14 February 1934
- 14 February 1934 – 4 June 1935
- 4 June 1935 – 5 November 1935
Early life
[edit]Jan Malypetr came fromlanded gentryin the German speaking part ofBohemia.[3]After attending high school and business school inKadaň,he worked on his parents' estate, which was calledu Sakulínů.He also became the president of the local sugar beet cooperative refinery.[3]
In 1899 Malypetr joined theAgrarian Partyand in 1906 became a member of its executive committee. From 1911 to 1914 he was mayor in his home town of Klobuky. From 1914 to 1918 he was mayor inSlaný.
When Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, Jan Malypetr was appointed to the first so-called Revolutionary National Assembly under the Provisional Constitution. In 1920, in the first parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in theNational Assembly.
Legacy
[edit]Among his grandsons was authorJiří Stránský.Women's Chess GrandmasterJana Bellinis his granddaughter.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Ing., CSc Jan Malypetr (1934) - Witness story - Memory of Nations".www.pametnaroda.cz(in Czech). Archived fromthe originalon 10 October 2018.[Biography of his grandson]
- ^Connelly, John (2022).From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe.Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 413.ISBN978-0-691-20895-4.
- ^abMiller, Daniel Edward (1999).Forging Political Compromise: Antonín Svehla and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918–1933.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 98.ISBN978-0-8229-7728-5.
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