| Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia | |
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| Former political post | |
| Flag of Czechoslovakia | |
| Predecessor | |
| Successor | Václav Klaus Vladimír Mečiar |
| First officeholder | Karel Kramář |
| Last officeholder | Jan Stráský |
| Political office started | 14 November 1918 |
| Political office ended | 31 December 1992 |
| Current pretender | None |
The Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia was the head of government of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the end of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in 1992.
National Democratic Party Czech Social Democratic Party Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People Czech National Social Party Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Civic Democratic Party Non-partisan
| # | Portrait | Name | Born-Died | Assumed office | Left office | Political Party |
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| 1 | Karel Kramář | 1860–1937 | 14 November 1918 | 8 July 1919 | National Democratic Party | |
| 2 | Vlastimil Tusar | 1880–1924 | 8 July 1919 | 15 September 1920 | Czech Social Democratic Party | |
| 3 | Jan Černý | 1874–1959 | 15 September 1920 | 26 September 1921 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People | |
| 4 | Edvard Beneš | 1884–1948 | 26 September 1921 | 7 October 1922 | Czechoslovak National Socialist Party | |
| 5 | Antonín Švehla | 1873–1933 | 7 October 1922 | 18 March 1926 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Pětka | |
| 6 | Jan Černý | 1874–1959 | 18 March 1926 | 12 October 1926 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People | |
| 7 | Antonín Švehla | 1873–1933 | 12 October 1926 | 1 February 1929 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Pětka | |
| 8 | František Udržal | 1866–1938 | 1 February 1929 | 24 October 1932 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People | |
| 9 | Jan Malypetr | 1873–1947 | 24 October 1932 | 5 November 1935 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People | |
| 10 | Milan Hodža | 1878–1944 | 5 November 1935 | 22 September 1938 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People | |
| 11 | Jan Syrový | 1888–1970 | 22 September 1938 | 1 October 1938 | Non-partisan | |
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| 11 | Jan Syrový | 1888–1970 | 1 October 1938 | 1 December 1938 | Non-partisan | |
| 12 | Rudolf Beran | 1887–1954 | 1 December 1938 | 15 March 1939 | Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Party of National Unity | |
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(1939–1945) Alois Eliáš became Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a de iure autonomous region incorporated into Nazi Germany.[1][2] Jan Šrámek became Prime Minister within the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, recognized as the only legitimate Czechoslovak Government during the Second World War. Vojtech Tuka became Prime Minister of the quasi-independent, pro-Nazi and clero-fascist Slovak Republic. |
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| (1945–1948) | ||||||
| 13 | Zdeněk Fierlinger | 1891–1976 | 5 April 1945 | 2 July 1946 | Czech Social Democratic Party | |
| 14 | Klement Gottwald | 1896–1953 | 2 July 1946 | 15 June 1948 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
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(1948–1989) Official names: Czechoslovak Republic (1948–1960), Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1960–1990) |
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| 15 | Antonín Zápotocký | 1884–1957 | 15 June 1948 | 14 March 1953 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| 16 | Viliam Široký | 1902–1971 | 14 March 1953 | 20 September 1963 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| 17 | Jozef Lenárt | 1923–2004 | 20 September 1963 | 8 April 1968 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| 18 | Oldřich Černík | 1921–1994 | 8 April 1968 | 28 January 1970 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| 19 | Lubomír Štrougal | 1924– | 28 January 1970 | 12 October 1988 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| 20 | Ladislav Adamec | 1926–2007 | 12 October 1988 | 7 December 1989 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 21 | Marián Čalfa | 1946– | 7 December 1989 | 2 July 1992 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia / Public Against Violence / Civic Democratic Union | |
| 22 | Jan Stráský | 1940– | 2 July 1992 | 31 December 1992 | Civic Democratic Party | |
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