List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia

The Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia was the head of government

Head of government

Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...

of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the end of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic was the official name of Czechoslovakia from April 1990 until 31 December 1992, when the country was dissolved into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.- Adoption of the name :Since 1960, Czechoslovakia's official name had been Czechoslovak Socialist Republic...

in 1992.

List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia

#	Name	Assumed office	Left office	Political Party

(1918-1938)
1	Karel Kramář Karel Kramár Karel Kramář was a Czech politician.- Biography :Leader of the Young Czech Party in Austria-Hungary and later of the National Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia...	14 November 1918	8 July 1919	National Democratic Party National Democratic Party (Czechoslovakia) The National Democratic Party was a First Republic right-wing political party in Czechoslovakia. It was founded by Karel Kramář in 1919, after the creation of independent Czechoslovakia from the Austria-Hungary Empire...
2	Vlastimil Tusar Vlastimil Tusar Vlastimil Tusar was a Czech journalist and political figure. He served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1920....	8 July 1919	15 September 1920	Czech Social Democratic Party Czech Social Democratic Party The Czech Social Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic.-History:The Social Democratic Czechoslavonic party in Austria was founded on 7 April 1878 in Austria-Hungary representing the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Austrian parliament...
3	Jan Černý Jan Cerný Jan Černý was a Czechoslovakian civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926.-External links:...	15 September 1920	26 September 1921	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People
4	Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.- Youth :...	26 September 1921	7 October 1922	Czechoslovak National Socialist Party
5	Antonín Švehla Antonín Švehla Antonín Švehla was a Czechoslovakian politician. He served three terms as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. He is regarded as one of the most important political figures of the First Czechoslovak Republic; he was the leader of the Agrarian Party, which was dominant within the Pětka, which was...	7 October 1922	18 March 1926	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Pětka Petka Petka may refer to:* Pětka or Committee of Five, a Czechoslovak organization* Saint Petka, an ascetic female saint from the Eastern Roman Empire* Petka , a village in Serbia* Petka, Belgrade, a suburb of Lazarevac, Belgrade, Serbia...
6	Jan Černý Jan Cerný Jan Černý was a Czechoslovakian civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926.-External links:...	18 March 1926	12 October 1926	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People
7	Antonín Švehla Antonín Švehla Antonín Švehla was a Czechoslovakian politician. He served three terms as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. He is regarded as one of the most important political figures of the First Czechoslovak Republic; he was the leader of the Agrarian Party, which was dominant within the Pětka, which was...	12 October 1926	1 February 1929	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Pětka Petka Petka may refer to:* Pětka or Committee of Five, a Czechoslovak organization* Saint Petka, an ascetic female saint from the Eastern Roman Empire* Petka , a village in Serbia* Petka, Belgrade, a suburb of Lazarevac, Belgrade, Serbia...
8	František Udržal František Udržal František Udržal was a Czechoslovakian politician.A member and leader of the powerful Agrarian Party, his political career started as member of the local parliament of Bohemia, then of parliament of Austria-Hungary, then of parliament of Czechoslovakia...	1 February 1929	24 October 1932	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People
9	Jan Malypetr Jan Malypetr Jan Malypetr was a Czechoslovakian politician.A member of the Agrarian Party, he was Minister of Interior, and Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies from 17 December 1925 to 29 October 1932 and from 5 November 1935 to 1939.Additionally, he served three terms as prime minister of Czechoslovakia:* 29...	24 October 1932	5 November 1935	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People
10	Milan Hodža Milan Hodža Milan Hodža was a prominent Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and in December 1935 as the acting President of Czechoslovakia...	5 November 1935	22 September 1938	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People
11	Jan Syrový Jan Syrový Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak Army four star general and the prime minister during the Munich Crisis.-Early life and military career:...	22 September 1938	1 October 1938	Non-partisan

(1938-1939)
11	Jan Syrový Jan Syrový Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak Army four star general and the prime minister during the Munich Crisis.-Early life and military career:...	1 October 1938	1 December 1938	Non-partisan
12	Rudolf Beran Rudolf Beran Rudolf Beran was a Czechoslovakian politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation by Nazi Germany and shortly thereafter, before it was declared a protectorate...	1 December 1938	15 March 1939	Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People/Party of National Unity Party of National Unity (Czechoslovakia) The Party of National Unity was a party created on 21 November 1938 in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia after the occupation of large parts of the country by Germany and Hungary as a kind of last attempt to unify forces to save Czechoslovakia from disappearing...

(1939-1945) Alois Eliáš Alois Eliáš Alois Eliáš was a Czechoslovak general and politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from April 27, 1939 to September 28, 1941.- Career in 1939-1942 :... became Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was the majority ethnic-Czech protectorate which Nazi Germany established in the central parts of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia in what is today the Czech Republic... , a de iure autonomous region incorporated into Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by... . Jan Šrámek Jan Šrámek Jan Šrámek 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 and was a Monsignor.... became Prime Minister within the Czechoslovak government-in-exile Czechoslovak government-in-exile The Czechoslovak government-in-exile was an informal title conferred upon the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee, initially by British diplomatic recognition. The name came to be used by other World War II Allies as they subsequently recognized it... , recognized as the only legitimate Czechoslovak Government during the Second World War. Vojtech Tuka Vojtech Tuka Vojtech "Béla" Tuka was the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic between 1940 and 1945. Tuka was one the main forces behind the deportation of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps in Poland... became Prime Minister of the quasi-independent, pro-Nazi and clero-fascist Clerical fascism Clerical fascism is an ideological construct that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with theology or religious tradition... Slovak Republic.

(1945-1948)
13	Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdenek Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger was Czech politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1944 to 1946, first in the London-based exiled government and later in liberated Czechoslovakia...	5 April 1945	2 July 1946	Czech Social Democratic Party Czech Social Democratic Party The Czech Social Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic.-History:The Social Democratic Czechoslavonic party in Austria was founded on 7 April 1878 in Austria-Hungary representing the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Austrian parliament...
14	Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.-Early life:...	2 July 1946	15 June 1948	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....

(1948-1989) Official names: 1948-1960 Czechoslovak Republic, 1960-1990 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Czechoslovak Socialist Republic The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until end of 1989 , a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc....
15	Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký was communist Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 and President of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957....	15 June 1948	14 March 1953	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....
16	Viliam Široký Viliam Široký Viliam Široký was a prominent Communist politician of Czechoslovakia, the Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963, and briefly serving as the acting President of Czechoslovakia following the death of Antonín Zápotocký from 13 November to 19 November 1957. He also served as the leader of the Communist...	14 March 1953	20 September 1963	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....
17	Jozef Lenárt Jozef Lenárt Jozef Lenárt was a Slovak politician.He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company...	20 September 1963	8 April 1968	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....
18	Oldřich Černík Oldrich Cerník Oldřich Černík was a Czechoslovakian Communist political figure. He was the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from April 8, 1968 to January 28, 1970....	8 April 1968	28 January 1970	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....
19	Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal is a former Czech politician and communist Czechoslovakia prime minister.After serving in Germany’s industry during the World War II he finished the law studies at the Charles University in Prague...	28 January 1970	12 October 1988	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....
20	Ladislav Adamec Ladislav Adamec Ladislav Adamec was a Czechoslovak Communist political figure. Upon the retirement of Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal in October 1988, Adamec assumed the role, thus serving as the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia. He served from October 12, 1988 to December 7, 1989...	12 October 1988	7 December 1989	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....

(1989-1992)
21	Marián Čalfa Marián Calfa Marián Čalfa was a Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during and after the Velvet Revolution, as well as acting President for 19 days, and was a key facilitator of smooth power transfer from the Communists to a new democratic representation.An ethnic Slovak, he was a member of KSČ, the Communist...	7 December 1989	2 July 1992	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992.... / Public Against Violence Public Against Violence The Public Against Violence was a political movement that was established in Bratislava, Slovakia on 20 November 1989. It was the Slovak counterpart of the Czech Civic Forum .... / Civic Democratic Union
22	Jan Stráský Jan Stráský Jan Stráský is a Czech politician.Stráský studied philosophy and political economy at the Charles University in Prague. During the 1960s-'80s he worked at the Central bank of Czechoslovakia...	2 July 1992	31 December 1992	Civic Democratic Party

List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia

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