Bedřich Pacák

Bedřich Pacák

Bedřich Pacák (born September 13, 1846 in Bělohrad , Bohemia , † May 24, 1914 in Veltrusy ) was a Czech lawyer and politician.

The son of a lawyer attended school in Ledeč nad Sázavou , the grammar school in Krems on the Danube and from 1861 to 1865 the high school in Jindřichův Hradec . After graduating from high school in 1865, he studied law at Prague University . In 1868, during a student meeting in a Prague inn, he expressed "treasonable" thoughts. According to a complaint, he was sentenced to five years in prison. The sentence was increased to ten years by the appellate court and finally reduced to five years by the highest court. After three years, which he spent with Josef Barák and other young rebels, he was pardoned on February 7, 1871. He then did his doctorate and then worked as a lawyer in Kutná Hora . He also wrote articles for the Národní listy .

In the 1890s he joined the Young Czech Party ( Mladočeská strana ) and has been a member of the Bohemian Landtag since 1889 and in the Imperial Council in Vienna since 1891 . The moderate politician was a supporter of the Austrian Prime Minister Kasimir Felix Badeni , in whose language regulation he helped. After Emanuel Engel abdicated , he took over the chairmanship of the Young Czechs in 1900. As a minister without portfolio he belonged to the government of Max Wladimir von Beck . After the new elections in 1907, he lost this office.

literature

• J. Cvetler:  Pacák Bedřich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 278.

Web links

Commons : Bedřich Pacák  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature and other media by and about Bedřich Pacák in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic