Ján Langoš
Ján Langoš (born August 2, 1946 in Banská Bystrica , † June 15, 2006 in Košice ) was a Slovak politician and the last interior minister of the state of Czechoslovakia .
Life
The trained physicist was one of the leading figures in the Slovak dissident movement in the 1980s. At that time he took part in the activities of an underground university.
After the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989, he became a member of the Federal National Assembly for the civil rights movement Verejnosť proti násiliu (VPN, Public Against Violence) and, on June 27, 1990, Minister of the Interior of the then ČSFR (and at the same time the last of the joint state of Czechoslovakia) in the Marián Čalfa government II . Here he was instrumental in clearing the police apparatus from the cadres of the Czechoslovak State Security StB .
After Slovakia was founded on January 1, 1993, he was a member of the National Council as well as the founder and chairman of the Conservative Democratic Party (Demokratická strana / DS).
After retiring from active politics, he initiated the opening of the Slovak Stasi files, which was enforced in 2002 by the majority of the Slovak parliament against the veto of the then President Rudolf Schuster . Then Langoš built the Ústav pamäti národa (ÚPN, Institute for the Memory of the People), which is comparable to the Birthler Authority. The institute enabled a review of all candidates for the June 2006 parliamentary elections.
Until his death in a car accident for which he was not responsible, Langoš was director of the "Institute for People's Memory" which he founded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ V záhrade si pripomenú pamiatku rodáka J. Langoša, zakladateľa UPN , in: portal naša MyBystrica , June 11, 2017 online at: mybystrica.sme.sk / ...
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langoš, Ján |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Banská Bystrica |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 2006 |
| Place of death | Košice |