Jozef Lenárt
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Jozef Lenárt (3 April 1923 – 11 February 2004) was a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968.


Life and career

Born in Liptovská Porúbka,
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, he graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company. He became a member of the
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(''KSČ'') and of the
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(''KSS''). Lenart was a member of the federal parliament (whose name changed several times) from 1960 to 1990, and was Speaker of the Slovak National Council from 1962 to 1963. He was also a member from 1971 to (?)1990. He served as Prime Minister of
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between 1963 and 1968. Although ethnically Slovak, he became a Czech citizen after the
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in 1993. On the basis of insufficient evidence, on 23 September 2002 Lenárt was acquitted of treason charges (along with his co-defendant
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), 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
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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. He died in Prague in 2004.


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 The Slovak National Council ( sk, Slovenská národná rada (SNR)) was an organisation that was formed at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation. It originated in the mid-19th century ...
*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
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See also

* List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia * List of presidents of Czechoslovakia


References

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