Jan Šrámek

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Jan Šrámek (November 8, 1870, Grygov, Moravia - April 22, 1956, Prague) was Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile from July 21, 1940 to April 5, 1945. He was the first chairman of the Czechoslovak People's Party^[1] and was a Monsignor.^[2]

From 1945 on Czechoslovakia was ruled by the Communist-dominated National Front which also included Šrámek's People's Party. Šrámek and his co-partisans worried about the increasing role of the communist party. Since 1947 the popular support for communists started to diminish. In order to consolidate power, communists carried out a coup in February 1948. Mgr. Šrámek had to resign as the chairman of the People's Party. His successor Alois Petr, and priest Josef Plojhar, a "strong man" within the People's Party, supported unconditional collaboration with communists.

Mgr. Jan Šrámek died 22 April 1956.

References

↑ Gehler, Michael; Kaiser, Wolfram (2004). Christian Democracy in Europe Since 1945. Taylor & Francis. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-203-64623-6.
↑ Churchill, Winston; Gilbert, Martin; Martin Gilbert (2001). The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War, 1941. W W Norton & Company Incorporated. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-393-01959-9. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

v t e Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia

First Czechoslovak Republic	Karel Kramář Vlastimil Tusar Jan Černý Edvard Beneš Antonín Švehla Jan Černý Antonín Švehla František Udržal Jan Malypetr Milan Hodža Jan Syrový

Second Czechoslovak Republic	Jan Syrový Rudolf Beran

Occupation	Government-in-exile: Jan Šrámek Zdeněk Fierlinger

Third Czechoslovak Republic	Zdeněk Fierlinger Klement Gottwald

Communist Era	Antonín Zápotocký Viliam Široký Jozef Lenárt Oldřich Černík Lubomír Štrougal Ladislav Adamec

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic	Marián Čalfa Jan Stráský

v t e Chairmen of Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party

Šrámek Petr Plojhar Pospíšil Petera Toman Žalman Bartončík Lux Kasal Svoboda Kalousek Čunek Svoboda

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 20764645 LCCN: nr2004033581 ISNI: 0000 0000 5543 4253 GND: 129530883 SUDOC: 127553363 NKC: jk01130979

Persondata
Name	Sramek, Jan
Alternative names
Short description	Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
Date of birth	November 8, 1870
Place of birth
Date of death	April 22, 1956
Place of death

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