František Chvalkovský

František Chvalkovský (1923)

from right: Hitler, Lammers, Hácha, Meissner, Chvalkovský June 1942 in the Reich Chancellery

František Chvalkovský (born June 30, 1885 in Jílové , † February 25, 1945 in Berlin ) was a Czech diplomat and politician.

activities

Chvalkovský studied law in Prague and London. He started working at the Živnostenská banka branch in Cracow . After the First World War he became secretary to the Czechoslovak interior minister Antonín Švehla . As a member of the Czechoslovak delegation, he participated in the negotiations for the Treaty of Trianon . As a result, Chvalkovský was the envoy of Czechoslovakia in Tokyo, Washington, Berlin (1927-1932) and Rome (1932-1938).

The appointment of Chvalkovský as Foreign Minister in 1938 led to a significant change in Czechoslovak foreign policy. After the Munich Agreement, he advocated close alignment between Czechoslovakia and the German Empire . Chvalkovskýs represented Czecho-Slovakia in the negotiations that led to the 1st Vienna arbitration award . In March 1939 he accompanied President Emil Hácha on his trip to Berlin, the result of which was the smashing of Czechoslovakia and the formation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

Chvalkovský became Minister without Portfolio in the Protectorate Government and was from June 1939 envoy of the Protectorate in Berlin. As a representative of the Protectorate Government in Berlin, he was only responsible for formal contact with the Reich Chancellery . All inquiries from other German authorities concerning the Protectorate had to be made through the Reich Protector in Prague. The foreign representation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was carried out by the German Foreign Office . He remained in his increasingly less influential post. The embassy of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was located at Kurfürstendamm No. 190/92 at the corner of Schlüterstraße.

On February 25, 1945 he was killed in an Allied bombing raid on Berlin.

literature

• Wolfgang Schumann (editor): Europe under the swastika , Volume 1: Austria and Czechoslovakia . German Verl. D. Wiss., Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-326-00411-7 .

Web links

• Newspaper article about František Chvalkovský in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economy .

Individual evidence

1. ^ František Chvalkovský website of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs