František Benda

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František Benda (born August 7, 1944 in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ; † January 1, 2017 in Prachatice ) was a Czech politician of the KDS (later ODS). From July 1992 to July 1996 he was Czech Environment Minister in the first cabinet of Václav Klaus .

Life

Benda studied chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (VŠCHT) in Prague until 1969 . From 1969 to 1983 he was assistant professor there and since 1972 also a candidate for science (CSc.) At the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry . Then Benda was a research assistant at the Institute for Landscape Ecology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (ČSAV) in Budweis until 1990 .

After the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, Benda became Deputy Mayor of Budweis in 1990. On July 2, 1992, he succeeded Ivan Dejmal (1991–1992) as Environment Minister of the Czech Republic and on January 1, 1993, he became the first Environment Minister of the newly founded Czech Republic. Benda belonged to the Christian-democratic party KDS and switched to the liberal-conservative ODS in 1994 after the merger of KDS and ODS . He left office on July 4, 1996, and was succeeded by Jiří Skalický in Klaus' second cabinet . Benda was a member of the Budweis city council until November 1998.

František Benda was ordained a deacon on December 8, 2011 . As a pastor, he looked after the city of Prachatice, the surrounding communities and the old people's home in Prachatice. He died on January 1, 2017 in the Prachatic Hospice and was buried in Lštění .

family

Benda left a wife and four sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Úmrtní oznámení Ing. Františka Bendy, CSc. . (Czech, accessed November 28, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Benda, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech environment minister, chemist, engineer and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1944
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2017
Place of death Prachatice