Drahomír Kolder

Drahomír Kolder

Drahomír Kolder (born December 29, 1925 in Ostrava , † August 20, 1972 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak communist politician and high functionary of the communist party KSČ . He was one of the most famous proponents of the crackdown on the Prague Spring .

Kolder, originally a miner, joined the KSČ in 1945 and started a professional career as a party politician. Since 1946 he has held numerous functions in the communist youth organization ČSM and the party. 1952–1954 he studied at the party college of the CPC Central Committee . 1954–1958 Kolder was head of department in the Central Committee of the KSČ, 1958–1962 party secretary in the party's important district association in Ostrava, in 1958 he became a candidate, 1961 member and 1962 board member of the Central Committee, since 1962 also secretary of the Central Committee for Economic Affairs; since 1963 he headed the party commission (so-called Kolder commission ) for the review of the political processes. 1960-1969 he was a member of parliament.

During the Prague Spring 1968 he belonged to the conservative wing of the KSČ. He was among the party officials who signed the letter of invitation calling for Soviet interference. Despite his conservative orientation, he lost most of the important party functions after August 1968 and worked at the embassy in Sofia in Bulgaria . After his return in 1969 he was (although a member of the Central Committee) rather apart from the party politics. In October 1969 he became a member of the Office for Party Work in the Czech Republic.

In October 1969, Drahomír Kolder became chairman of the People's Control Committee (with the rank of minister) in the Oldřich Černík III government and retained these government offices in the Štrougal I and Štrougal II governments .

In December 1989 Kolder was posthumously expelled from the KSČ .

swell

• 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
• Milan Churaň a kolektiv, Kdo byl kdo v našich dějinách ve 20. století (Who was who in our history of the 20th century), Libri, Prague 1998, part 1 and 2, ISBN 80-85983-44-3 and ISBN 80- 85983-64-8 , online at: www.libri.cz

literature

• Drahomir Kolder , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/1972 of September 25, 1972, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)