Ján Marko

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Ján Marko (born September 6, 1920 ) is a former Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) , who was Foreign Minister between 1969 and 1971 and First Deputy President of the Federation Assembly from 1971 to 1990 Parliament of Czechoslovakia, was.

Marko, who came from a small Slovak family of farmers, graduated from the Slovak Business School in Bratislava . After graduating, he became an engineer at the Slovak Magnesium Works in 1947, of which he was director between 1951 and 1954. In the mid-1950s he also began his political commitment when he was elected for the first time as a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KSČ at the Xth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (June 11-15, 1954) . He belonged to this body initially until the XII. Party congress (December 4-8, 1962). In the elections of November 28, 1954, he was elected a member of the Slovak National Council (SNR), of which he was a member until November 27, 1971. In December 1954 he succeeded Pavol Majling as finance commissioner of the SNR; he held this position until he was replaced by Ján Marcelly in March 1959.

After Marko was again director of the Slovak Magnesium Works between 1960 and 1962, he acted as deputy chairman of the Slovak National Council between 1963 and 1968 and was commissioner for technology at the SNR from 1963 to 1965. In the meantime he was on the XII. KSČ party congress (December 4-8, 1962) initially only elected as a candidate for the KSČ Central Committee. On November 10, 1965, he took over the post of Minister without Portfolio in the Jozef Lenárt government , which he held until April 8, 1968. In addition, he became a member of the Central Committee of the KSS at the party congress of the Communist Party of Slovakia (May 12-14, 1966).

On January 1, 1969, Marko took over the post of Foreign Minister in the Oldřich Černík II government . He kept this office in the following governments ( Černík III and Štrougal I ) until December 9, 1971, when he was replaced by Bohuslav Chňoupek . At the same time he became a member of the Federation Assembly, the Parliament of Czechoslovakia, for the first time on January 1, 1969. Within parliament he was initially a member of the Chamber of Peoples, which consisted of 150 members until November 25, 1971, of which 75 members each came from the two republics of the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic. At the XIV Party Congress of KSČ (May 25-29, 1971) he was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee, to which he belonged until 1990. In the second and third legislative periods between November 27, 1971 and June 5, 1981, he was a member of the People's Chamber, which was composed of 200 members elected in electoral districts.

In December 1971 Marko became the first deputy chairman of the Federation Assembly and was thus a representative of the President of Parliament Alois Indra . In addition, from December 1972 he was chairman of the Czechoslovak parliamentary group. Most recently he was again a member of the Chamber of Peoples of the Federation Assembly from June 7, 1981 to January 28, 1990.

He has received several awards for his longstanding services, including the Order of the Republic in 1970 and 1980 .

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SURNAME Marko, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1920