Luboš Dobrovský
Luboš Dobrovský | |
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Minister of DefenceofCzechoslovakia | |
In office 18 October 1990 – 2 July 1992 | |
Prime Minister | Marián Čalfa |
Preceded by | Miroslav Vacek |
Succeeded by | Imrich Andrejčák |
Czech Republic Ambassador toRussia | |
In office 1996–2000 | |
President | Václav Havel |
Preceded by | Rudolf Slánský Jr. |
Succeeded by | Jaroslav Bašta |
Personal details | |
Born | Luboš Hamerschlag 3 February 1932 Kolín,Czechoslovakia |
Died | 30 January 2020 Prague,Czech Republic | (aged 87)
Luboš Dobrovský(bornLuboš Hamerschlag,3 February 1932 – 30 January 2020)[1]was a Czech journalist and politician,[2]who served as Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.
Dobrovsky's father Ludvík Hamerschlag was Jewish. Deported toAuschwitz concentration campin September 1943, he did not survive the war. Dobrovský and his mother spent the war on a farm in Ohrada; his mother remarried the officer Josef Dobrovský after the war.[3]
Dobrovský was member ofCommunist Party of Czechoslovakiaand journalist of the Czechoslovak Radio between 1959 and 1968.[4]He signedCharta 77in the 1970s and served as a spokesman of theCivic Forumin 1989. Between October 1990 and June 1992 he was the Czechoslovak minister of defence. Later, he served as director of theOffice of the Czech PresidentVáclav Havel.Between 1996 and 2000 he was theCzech Ambassador in Moscow.[5]
References[edit]
- ^"Zemřel Luboš Dobrovský".Právo(in Czech). novinky.cz. 30 January 2020.Retrieved30 January2020.
- ^StB si označovala Židy. V seznamech mají původní jména
- ^"Luboš Dobrovský (1932 - 2020)".www.memoryofnations.eu.Retrieved17 March2020.
- ^Galerie ministrů národní obrany - Ministři národní obrany v letech 1918 až 1992
- ^Dobrovský LubošArchived2010-12-29 at theWayback Machine
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