Štefan Sádovský

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Štefan Sádovský (born October 13, 1928 in Vlkas , Okres Nové Zámky , † June 17, 1984 in Bratislava ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ ( Komunistická strana Československa ) , who was among other things Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic in 1969 . He was considered one of the reform communist- oriented politicians during the Prague Spring .

Life

Štefan Sádovský, who in 1948 joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ ( Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ) was graduated in economics at the Higher School of Economics Bratislava VŠE (Vysoká škola ekonomická) , which he completed 1954th He then worked in various functions as an agricultural expert in state and party administration. He began his political career in the Communist Party of Slovakia KSS ( Komunistická strana Slovenska )and at their party congress (November 24-25, 1962) initially became a member of the Central Control and Revision Commission. In 1966 he became a member of the Slovak National Council SNR (Slovenská národní Rada) and was a member of it until 1971. At the following party congress (May 12-14, 1966) he became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KSS. On the XIII, which took place two weeks later. At the Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (May 31 to June 4, 1966) he was elected both as a candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee and as a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and the Central Committee of the KSČ. In the course of the events in the Prague Spring he was a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee until April 4, 1968 and the Central Committee's secretariat until August 31, 1968.

After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops to suppress the Prague Spring on August 21, 1968, Soviet troops armed with machine guns penetrated the office of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of KSČ Alexander Dubček and arrested Dubček and Sádovský as well as other reform communists such as Josef Smrkovský , František Kriegel , Josef Špaček , Bohumil Šimon , Zdeněk Mlynář , Vaclav Slavik , several other officials and helpers. At the Extraordinary Party Congress of the KSS (August 26-29, 1968) he became a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, Central Committee Secretary, member of the Central Committee Secretariat and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia.

Furthermore, at the end of August 1968, Sádovský was re-elected a member of the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee at the extraordinary party congress in Prague-Vysočany (August 22-31, 1968), which was later canceled as the 14th party congress. As a member of the Bureau, he was confirmed at the Central Committee plenum on November 17, 1968 and also a member of the newly created Executive Committee of the Central Committee, which apart from him Oldřich Černík , Alexander Dubcek , Evžen Erban , Gustav Husák , Ludvik Svoboda and lubomír štrougal belonged . On January 1, 1969, he also became a member of the Federation Assembly or Federal Assembly (Federální shromáždění) and until November 25, 1971 belonged to the Chamber of Nationalities (Sněmovna národů) , which consisted of 75 representatives each from the Czech and Slovak Republics.

On January 2, 1969, Štefan Sádovský became the first Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic and held this position until May 4, 1969, when Peter Colotka succeeded him. He later acted from February until his impeachment in December 1970 as Vice-Prime Minister of the SSR and thus as deputy of Peter Colotka. He resigned in December 1970 as a member of the Central Committee of the KSČ and was not re-elected to the Central Committee of the party at the XIV Party Congress (May 25-29, 1971). In 1971 he was expelled from the Communist Party due to his attitude towards the Prague Spring and then withdrew from political life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaromir Navrotil: The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader , p. 416, Central European University Press, 1998, ISBN 9-639-11615-7 ( online version )
  2. ↑ Galia Golan: Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia: The Dubcek Era 1968–1969 , pp. 147, 164, CUP Archive, 1973 ISBN 0-521-08586-1 ( online version )
  3. ^ Slovakia: Prime Ministers in Rulers
  4. ^ Eastern European Rundschau , p. 24, Volumes 17-18, Free Europe Committee 1971
personal data
SURNAME Sádovský, Štefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vlkas , Okres Nové Zámky , Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1984
Place of death Bratislava