Jan Černý

Jan Černý
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
In office
1920–1921, 1926
Governor of Moravia
In office
1918–1920, 1921–1928 and 1929–1939
Personal details
Born(1874-03-04)4 March 1874
Uherský Ostroh, Moravia, Austria-Hungary
Died10 April 1959(1959-04-10) (aged 85)
Uherský Ostroh, Czechoslovakia

Jan Černý (4 March 1874 – 10 April 1959) was a Czech civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921[1] and in 1926. He also served as the provincial president (governor) of Moravia in 1918–1920, 1921–1928 and 1929–1939.

Life and career

Jan Černý was bornon 4 March 1874 into a furriers family in the small town of Uherský Ostroh, in the east of (Moravia. He attended the gymnasium (a grammar school) in Uherské Hradiště from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague – he graduated in 1898[2] – he began professional career as a state servant (county director) in Hodonín. 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,[3][4] being the highest-ranked Czech-speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, he became the head of the local government for the new state on 29 November 1918.

References

  1. ↑ Preclík, Vratislav (July–September 2020). "Prezident Masaryk a vláda Jana Černého". Čas: časopis Masarykova demokratického hnutí (in Czech). XXVIII (131): 10–16. ISSN 1210-1648.
  2. ↑ Vyskočil, Aleš (2008). "Státní úředník - příklad Jana Černého". In Fasora, L.; Malíř, J.; Hanuš, J. (eds.). Člověk na Moravě 19. století (in Czech). Brno: CDK. pp. 312–324. ISBN 978-80-7325-147-5.
  3. ↑ LeCaine Agnew, Hugh (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian crown. Chapter 11. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
  4. ↑ Macmillan, Margaret (2003). Peacemakers. Chapter 18. London: John Murray Press.

Further reading

  • Brügel, Johann Wolfgang (1967). Tschechen und Deutsche (in German). Munich: Nyphenbureger. p. 104.