Jan Černý
Jan Černý (4 March 1874, Uherský Ostroh, Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 10 April 1959, Uherský Ostroh, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926. Also served as provincial president (governor) 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, wery east of Moravia (Moravian Slovakia). Attended gymnasium (a grammar school) in Uherské Hradiště from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague – graduated 1898[1] – began professional career as a state servant (county director) in Hodonín. From 1912 was a senior department director in Moravian governor´s office (stadtholder government). At the time of the revolutionary establishment of Czechoslovakia when it went residual statehood Bohemia and Moravia[2][3](for the new state) he became in 29 November 1918, as a highest ranked Czech speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, head of local government.
References
- ↑ Vyskočil, Aleš (2008). Státní úředník - příklad Jana Černého. In:Fasora, L., Malíř, J., Hanuš (eds.), J.: Člověk na Moravě 19. století. Brno, CDK. ISBN 978-80-7325-147-5. p. 312-324 (in Czech)
- ↑ Hugh, LeCaine Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian crown. Hoover, Stanford University. Chapter 11
- ↑ Macmillan Margaret (2003). Peacemakers. London, John Murray Press. Chapter 18
Further reading
- Brügel, Johann Wolfgang (1967). Tschechen und Deutsche (in German), Munich, Nyphenbureger. p. 104
External links
- Biography (Czech)
| Preceded by Vlastimil Tusar |
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1920–1921 |
Succeeded by Edvard Beneš |
| Preceded by Antonín Švehla |
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1926 |
Succeeded by Antonín Švehla |
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