Ján Čarnogurský

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Ján Čarnogurský (2011) Awarded the Adalbert Prize
Ján Carnogurský (2013)

Ján Čarnogurský (born January 1, 1944 in Bratislava ) is a former Slovak dissident , politician , Prime Minister of Slovakia (1991–1992) and founder and chairman of the KDH (1990–2000).

Life

He studied law at the Charles University in Prague and at the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1971 he started working as a lawyer in Bratislava. He was one of the main figures of the Christian-Democratic opposition movement against the communist regime. For this reason, he was arrested shortly before the upheaval, on August 14, 1989, before shortly afterwards, in December 1989, he became Minister of the Interior in the Marián Čalfa I government . Čarnogurský was chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement from 1990 to 2000. From April 1991 to June 1992 he was the Prime Minister of Slovakia; from 1998 he was the minister of justice in his country. Čarnogurský abstained from the vote in the government cabinet on the Kosovo war in 1999. Čarnogurský spoke out in favor of his country joining NATO, as Slovakia "could then not be bombed by NATO".

In 2002 he announced his withdrawal from politics. After this decision he went back to work as a lawyer. Today Čarnogurský is the chairman of the Slovak-Russian Society. In German-speaking countries he writes for the online journal Solon-line. He ran as an independent candidate in the election of the Slovak President on March 15, 2014, but had no chance with a share of the vote of 0.64%.

His father Pavol Čarnogurský was an important member of the Hlinka party and one of the most important anti-communists of the time.

Honors

In 2011 he received the Adalbert Prize .

Ján Čarnogurský is a knight of honor of the Habsburg Order of St. George .

Web links

Commons : Ján Čarnogurský  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Hofbauer / David X. Noack: Slovakia: The laborious way to the west , Vienna 2012, p. 170. ISBN 978-3-85371-349-5
  2. ↑ Gabriele Matzner-Holzer at a BISLA event in Bratislava on January 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ Čarnogurský calls it quits , “The Slovak Spectator”, 4/1/2002.
  4. ↑ http://de.rian.ru/world/20100331/125699803.html
  5. ↑ http://www.solon-line.de
  6. ↑ Čarnogurský: Môj otec veril v zázrak - slovenský národ, on www.sme.sk from August 31, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Čarnogurský, Ján
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava