Jan Černý (4 March 1874, in Uherský Ostroh,

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– 10 April 1959, in Uherský Ostroh,

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) was a Czechoslovak civil servant and

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. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926. He also served as the provincial president (

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) of Moravia in 1918–1920, 1921–1928 and 1929–1939. Jan Černý was born into a furriers family in the small town of Uherský Ostroh, in the east of Moravia (

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). He attended the gymnasium (a grammar school) in

Uherské Hradiště Uherské Hradiště (; german: Ungarisch Hradisch, hu, Magyarhradis) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 24,000 inhabitants. The agglomeration with the two neighbouring towns of Staré Město and Kunovice has over ...

from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of

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– he graduated in 1898 – he began professional career as a state servant (county director) in

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. From 1912 he was a senior department director in the Moravian governor's office ( stadtholder government). At the time of the revolutionary establishment of Czechoslovakia,Macmillan Margaret (2003). ''Peacemakers''. London, John Murray Press. Chapter 18 being the highest-ranked

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-speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, he became the head of the local government for the new state on 29 November 1918.

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1874 births 1959 deaths People from Uherský Ostroh People from the Margraviate of Moravia Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia Charles University alumni {{CzechRepublic-politician-stub

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