František Mikloško
František Mikloško (born June 2, 1947 in Nitra ) is a Slovak politician. Before the Soft Revolution , he was an important Slovak dissident. For a long time he was a member of parliament for the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH). Mikloško is married.
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In his youth he was strongly influenced by the persecution of the Catholic Church in Slovakia. After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics in Bratislava . He completed his studies with a doctorate in natural sciences. Impressed by the experiences of Jukl and Silvester Kröméry and Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec , Mikloško joined the church underground.
František Mikloško was born in Nitra. He was the youngest of four children. His father was a lawyer, his mother a high school teacher for French and Slovak. František Mikloško lived in Nitra until he graduated from high school. In his youth he was strongly influenced by the experience of persecution by the Catholic Church. The communist secret police searched his home and his parents were taken away for interrogation. His mother, who worked as a translator for small samiz data in the 1950s, was particularly hard hit. For František Mikloško it was difficult to cope with the constant persecution of Catholic priests and members of Catholic orders with which his family was in close contact.
In 1966 František Mikloško went to Bratislava to study mathematics and physics at the Comenius University in Bratislava . He completed his studies with a doctorate in natural sciences. In Bratislava he met three people who had a major impact on his life. From 1972 he secretly organized underground church groups.
It was Vladimír Jukl and Silvester Krŏméry, who were released from prison in 1964 after 14 years in prison for religious activities, and the current Nitran Cardinal Korec, who was imprisoned in 1968 after eight years of imprisonment - for his secret episcopal ordination - was released. Impressed by the biographies of these three personalities, and in dialogue with them, he joined the underground church. In the 1980s he led these groups at Comenius University. He published underground writings with Ján Čarnogurský and Martin Lauko . In addition to this activity, he also kept in contact with bourgeois underground groups and organized exhibitions by artists who were subject to a state exhibition ban. Together with Ján Čarnogurský, he secretly informed the western radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Europe about the conditions in his country. From 1972 to 1983 he conducted research in the field of numerical mathematics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Then he worked as a high school teacher and thus created more freedom for his work in the underground church. After the discovery of these activities by the secret police, he was dismissed and got by with handicrafts.
On March 25, 1988, Čarnogurský and Mikloško organized the " candle demonstration " in Bratislava, which made the following demands:
- Free choice of the Church in the election of bishops
- Religious freedom and
- Human rights
The demonstration was brutally suppressed by the police.
From November 1989 he became a member of the civil rights movement Verejnosť proti násiliu (Public Against Violence, VPN), which initiated the “soft revolution”, and worked in its presidium.
In March 1990 he was co-opted by the Slovak National Council (the Slovak Parliament). In the first free elections in the same year he was elected to the Slovak Parliament and from June 1990 to June 1992 he was the first chairman of the Slovak National Council.
In 1992 he joined the Christian Democratic Party of his friend Ján Čarnogurský KDH and was a member of the Slovak parliament for a long time. Most recently even as the longest serving MP. In addition to his position as deputy chairman of the party, he was its parliamentary group leader for ten years. In 2004 he was one of the Slovak presidential candidates. In 2008, he left with his party colleagues Vladimír Palko , Pavol Minárik and Rudolf Bauer of disappointment about the his opinion, too far to the social democratic SMER-SD -oriented course of since 2000 incumbent party leader Pavol Hrušovský KDH and founded on March 12, 2008, the conservative- Democratic Party of Slovakia (KDS) with.
František Mikloško is a member of the international award committee of the Adalbert Foundation and winner of the Adalbert Prize 2005. His very personal speech on the occasion of this award ceremony, at which he apologized to the Hungarians as a Slovak for the incidents after 1945, has taken place in Slovakia and in Hungary excited great looks.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ľudia ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Konzervatívni Demokratiei Slovenska . Retrieved December 16, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mikloško, František |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician, member of the National Council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nitra |