Daniel Herman (born 28 April 1963) is a

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politician who served as the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic in

Bohuslav Sobotka's Cabinet Cabinet of Bohuslav Sobotka was the governing body of the Czech Republic from 2014 to 2017. Bohuslav Sobotka was designated Prime Minister by President Miloš Zeman on January 17, 2014. The cabinet was sworn in on January 29, 2014. It was replace ...

from 2014 to 2017. He was born in

České Budějovice České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše. České Budějovice is t ...

. His mother was a cousin of

Hana Brady Hanička "Hana" Brady (born Hana Bradyová; 16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaus ...

. He began studying theology in

Litoměřice Litoměřice (; german: Leitmeritz) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat ...

in 1984. In 1989, he was ordained as a priest. He then became secretary to

Miloslav Vlk Miloslav Vlk (; 17 May 1932 – 18 March 2017) was a Czech prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Prague from 1991 to 2010. He was made a cardinal in 1994. He was also the President of the Council of European Bishops' Con ...

. He was spokesman of the Czech Bishops' Conference 1996–2005. In 2007, he applied for

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. He has since worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of the Interior and the

Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to: *Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports (Albania) *Ministry of Culture (Algeria) *Ministry of Culture (Argentina) * Minister for the Arts (Australia) *Ministry of Culture (Azerbaijan) * Ministry of ...

. From 12 August 2010 to 10 April 2013, he was the Director of the

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ( cs, Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů or ÚSTR) is a Czech government agency and research institute. It was founded by the Czech government in 2007 and is situated at Siwiecova street ...

. Since January, 2014, he is Czech

Minister of Culture A culture minister or a heritage minister is a common cabinet position in governments. The culture minister is typically responsible for cultural policy, which often includes arts policy (direct and indirect support to artists and arts organizati ...

. In March 2016 preceding state visit of the President of PRC

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, he initiated a minute of silence for

1959 Tibetan uprising The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China since the Seventeen Point Agreemen ...

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followed by the diplomatic note from the Chinese Ambassador. In May 2016 he caused turmoil due to his visit of congress of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft as first minister in history of the

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. In October 2016, he caused an international incident by officially welcoming the

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

after the signing of Czech-Chinese business contracts which do not allow that.

References

External links

The Official Website of Daniel Herman
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