Ľudovít Benada

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Ľudovít Benada (born August 28, 1899 in Mikulčice , † June 13, 1973 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak communist functionary and politician.

Life

Benada, originally a Social Democrat, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1921 . In the 1920s he was a party functionary in Slovakia, from 1931 to 1938 he worked in the USSR . After 1939 he worked in the illegal Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) and was a member of the illegal Central Committee (ZK). In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and spent four years in Mauthausen concentration camp .

After 1945 he worked again in the communist party. Benada was from December 2, 1946 to April 1, 1946 one of the six assessors of the National Court of the President of the Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso .

Between 1953 and 1958 he was the representative of the Office for State Control, from June 1958 to 1962 he was chairman of the Slovak National Council SNR. Benada also held the following party offices:

  • from 1945 member of the (ZK) of the KSS
  • In 1952 he became the secretary of the Central Committee of the KSS
  • 1952–1954 candidate of the Central Committee of KSČ
  • from 1953–1964 member of the secretariat of the KSS Central Committee
  • from 1954 member of the Politburo of the KSS
  • from 1958 member of the Central Committee of KSČ

In December 1948 Benada became deputy chairman (until 1952) of the newly founded Commission for Party Control (KSK), an institution assigned to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the KSČ, which carried out investigations against party functionaries and which played an important role in preparing for the short time afterwards beginning political show trials in Czechoslovakia was intended.

In 1945 he received the Czechoslovak War Cross in 1939 and the Order of the Slovak National Uprising and in 1955 the Order of the Republic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Súdny proces s ThDr. Jozefom Tisom, online at: forum.valka.cz , Slovak, accessed January 22, 2011
  2. ^ Slovakia (Slovak Republic), online at: www.worldstatesmen.org , accessed January 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Přehled funkcionářů ústředních orgánů KSČ 1945 - 1989, online at www.cibulka.net , accessed on January 22, 2011
  4. ↑ Biographical brief information of the library Banská Bystrica, online banskabystrica.kniznice.net ( Memento of 23 January 2016 Internet Archive ), Slovak, accessed 20 December 2011

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  • Zakázaný document. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949–68 (Prohibited document. Report of the Commission of the Central Committee of the KSČ on the political processes and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia 1949–68), Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970 (Czech edition), Introduction and closing words by Jiří Pelikán (appendix with biographies)
personal data
SURNAME Benada, Ľudovít
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikulčice
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1973
Place of death Bratislava